Dr. Alex Hobbs, P.E., is currently the Associate Director for Renewable Technologies at the Solar Center, an outreach component of NC State University's College of Engineering. He has more than 35 years of engineering experience in the areas of electric power generation and delivery, water and wastewater treatment, as well as production agriculture and food processing. He has worked as a design/startup engineer and as project manager on internal combustion turbine generator, coal and oil fired boiler, and light water nuclear plant projects. As an in-house technology consultant and researcher for a major southeastern utility, Dr. Hobbs led applied research and development programs to evaluate advanced power production techniques, development and combustion of biomass based renewable fuel resources, new environmental assessment and remediation technologies and innovative load management equipment and strategies.
Notes:
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Small Generator Interconnection Procedures (SGIP) - need to be adopted locally in each state
Key Quotes:
Net Metering Policy: “You should not have to sell it for less than you have to buy it.”
Thanks to Sarah Ashton, Rachel Cook, Lindsey Hannum, James Jeuck, Liwei Lin, James McCarter, Susan McIntyre, and Mark Megalos for providing notes and summaries for presentations.