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Solaric LiTe: Typhoon Season Is In, Brownouts Are Out

The Typhoons are here! Filipinos better be prepared or they will be cursed with darkness. It’s a safe bet to say that our motto should be the Boyscout’s Laging Handa before a disaster hits.

We are now firmly in the typhoon season and our solar panels priced in the Philippines in the form of Solar Portables just got smaller, cheaper, and filled with essential functions to get you going.

Every year, we are coming up with new and improved designs for disaster preparedness kits and making complete systems that can fit in a backpack or a well-prepared emergency kit.

After all, we offer Solaric solutions for all sizes and this is something that is universally looked for: the means of communication and light after a disaster.

Our Solaric LiTe is a well thought out self-contained solar kit that does the barest essentials. Its capabilities are the following:

Works as a power bank to keep your phones charged as our “smart phones” cannot even seem to last a day these days.
Solar charged (of course) so it can keep on going indefinitely.
Bawal Brownout. It has 3 lights to keep you or your family lit in times of darkness. The first one is built-in, while the other two is used for you to personalize your space.

This comes with two separate LED bulbs to keep your room or tent lit up; take note that it has a 3W solar panel priced in the Philippines and a main unit that has its own LED flashlight with 2 1A USB ports. It can also be charged with a micro USB charger, which is found almost anywhere.

From our experience after Typhoon Yolanda in Tacloban, the first 12 Watt hours provides the most benefits for a survivor as communication is dependent on how much cell phone battery you have while lighting depends on how much batteries you got.

In layman’s speak it’s enough energy to get your cell phone working and yet have some more for lights at night. We operated for 6 weeks in post-Yolanda Tacloban so we know a thing or two about electrical apocalypse living.

Sometimes, power won’t come back for days or months, if a super typhoon wrecks your home/province. Endless charging even with a diminutive 3W panel will give the user power, long after your sari-sari store ran out of candles and batteries.

At Solaric, we design things to last, and this LiTe has built-in Lithium Ion batteries that could be recharged hundreds of times.

We give a ONE year warranty on this product. The only maintenance it requires is that you at least remember to charge it every three months or simply use it plugged into a cellphone charger.

The cost of this item is P1500 each, P1350 for 2 or more orders, or P1200 for 6 or more orders. Our dealers and NGOs buy this by the case as they are assured of a quality product that is field tested and backed by our no-nonsense warranty.

The Solaric LiTe makes a good addition to any home emergency kit as working cellphones and lights are essential survival tools.

Our LiTes are found as raffle tables in our Solar 101 and 202 seminars.

We did find a very similar product being sold at the mall for P3500+. This is a high quality solar product that is using real rated batteries and solid design logic. There may be cheaper imitations but nothing like this for the price.

Nothing but the best for our customers.

If you want to buy one, please call us at 5040092 or at 09178603141 (Globe). You may email us at info@solaric.com.ph. You may pick up at our Makati office in JP Rizal between Rockwell and EDSA beside Caltex Gas station.

On-Grid/Off-Grid Systems Suitable For Your Home

Many people have now made the choice to adopt solar energy in the Philippines due to the abundance of sunlight all over the country, making it an extremely viable choice when it comes down to it. Not only is it efficient, but using it also helps in the world’s efforts in mitigating the effects of climate change.

When adopting this kind of technology, though, keep in mind that it can come in three kinds: grid-tied, hybrid, and off-grid. Take your needs into consideration before choosing which one you’d rather go with.

Take a look at their differences in the article below:

Off-grid

Off grid systems are those that can stand alone. To be able to have electricity all the time, off grid solar systems should be connected to batteries that store the power, or in case of an emergency, a backup generator. In order to keep the system in good condition, battery banks that store the power harvested from the sun should be replaced every ten years. Aside from batteries, you are also going to need charge controllers, which will control the current of electricity going to the batteries and prevent them from overcharging. When the sun sets, you’ll be running on the power stored in the batteries.

Grid-tied

Grid-tied means that when you install your PV system, you use the electricity generated from the PV system in the day, but use the electricity from national grid at night. When your or any other homeowner’s PV system generates more electricity that you consume, some utility companies buy that electricity. Better that that let it go to waste, and better sell it than store it in batteries that you’ll have to replace every ten years.

One of the good things about being tied to the grid is that if your PV systems fail, you have back up and your house will immediately switch to consuming electricity from the national grid. This prevents any sudden interruption of power.

One of the other things you’ll need for this PV system is a solar inverter or grid-tie inverter. These regulate the current you receive from your solar panels by converting the direct current your solar panels generate into alternating current which is what electrical appliances utilize.

Hybrid

Hybrid means that you both have batteries to store your power in like off-grid systems, but you are also connected to the national grid. However, you don’t have a backup generator because you’re already connected to the national grid. If your PV system generates more than you consume, the power is stored in the batteries, or you can put it on the grid and sell it. You can also program your home to get off your PV system or the grid during off-peak hours.

You’re going to need most of the components for the off-grid and grid-tied for the hybrid except for the generator.

The type of system you want to install is ultimately up to you. So which kind of system do you think is perfect for your home? Either way, investing in green tech is never a bad idea.

Germany and Its Solar Energy

Germany is one of the 177 countries (as of July 2016) that signed Paris Agreement. In it, countries from all around the world have agreed to actively fight global warming by reducing their emission of greenhouse gases. These countries, quite literally, want to save the world. In order to do so, we don’t have to turn to unrealistic solutions and extravagant technologies; the simple way to do it is to juts use more renewable energy.

Renewable energy

There are many sources of renewable energy: solar energy, where energy from sunlight is harvested and converted into electricity using solar panels; wind, which can be harvested using wind turbines (or windmills); tidal, which can be harvested by the turbines that spin from the movement of waves; wave, where seawater movement compresses air and spins the turbine; geothermal, where cold water is pumped into the ground and comes back up as steam which is used to power the turbines to create electricity; hydroelectric, where energy is harvested from the movement of water through bodies of water such as rivers, and dams; and biomass, where energy is harvested from chemically treating animal waste or decaying organic materials, but is only considered renewable energy if crops or organic materials are replanted.

Advantages

One of the advantages of renewable energy is that it will never run out. That’s why it’s called renewable – because the source of the energy is sustainable which allows it to be used continuously. The energy that can be harvested from nature is potentially infinite. Another is that when power produced by converting the energy is used, there is no waste products, unlike non-renewable energy sources that release pollutants or greenhouse gases when burned through to be consumed.

Germany’s surplus of energy

On the 8th of May, all of the power suppliers of Germany, from solar, hydro, biomass, and wind plants, were providing Germany with 55GW of the 63GW, or 87%, of the power being consumed by the market. Because of this overabundance of renewable energy, the prices went negative for a few hours, which means that the power suppliers of the country had to pay the people to use the electricity they were generating.

According to Agora Energiewende, last year, 33% of the power came from renewable energy, and they hope that the number will rise when they launch the wind turbines. Agora has also mentioned that every year, the share of renewable energy rises every year, and 8th of May showed that having a power system that supplies large amounts of power from renewable energy works just fine.

Germany aims to achieve 100% renewable energy by year 2050. Denmark is already generating so much electricity from their wind turbines that they’re exporting the extra to neighboring countries such as Germany, Sweden, and Norway.