Last week included attending the ASES Intersolar North America Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday 7/12/2016. All of the summer 2016 interns met at the Cal Train station in San Jose and arrived in San Francisco. From the SF station we all walked over to the convention center where the ASES exhibition hall was held. For the first 2 - 3 hours, all of the interns were split into three different groups that explored three different levels in the building which held a variety of different solar related companies. Each individual was tasked with speaking to different companies that could potentially help the Spartan Superway with its future solar needs. To do so, each individual talked to a variety of solar businesses and gathered information from these particular companies.
After the exhibition all of the interns went to the next door Intercontinental hotel to watch their fellow peers give a small, yet Spartan Superway related presentation. A member from each team (Solar, I.S.E, Modeling, Civil, and Bogie) gave a brief presentation on their current work, and a few members gave a presentation on their papers they wrote. This was a good chance for the presenters to develop their public speaking skills, and tell interested viewers what the Spartan Superway is all about.
A few companies that I personally talked to and had expressed interest in potentially helping the Spartan Superway were....
Bayo-S Solar: Dennis Schulte - Dschulte@bayo-s.com 519-217-3320
I spoke with Dennis in the exhibition hall about the Spartan Superway and how Bayo-s Solar could potentially help out. Bayo-s Solar is a professional foundation construction company that gets involved in more than just solar systems. I mentioned to Dennis how we're going to build a test track in the hopeful near future and would need ground columns to support the guideway. Dennis told me that Bayo-s could be a potential sponsor for these columns as long as there was potential for Spartan Superway to grow (which there most definitely is). This would be a great contact for the future when it comes time to building the test track under a sponsor!
PVLabels.com: 760-241-8900 - 1970 Placentia Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Here is a company that was promoting solar labels, solar placards, arc flash labels, and metal signs. This company was telling me that to pass regulations with solar installations, PV labels were absolutely required.
Battery Systems: Josh Brumm - JBrumm@batterysystems.net District Sales Manager - Office: 559-486-0457 Cell: 559- 909-5094 - Address: 4600 E. Lincoln Ave. Fowler, CA 93625
Josh Brumm is the District Sales Manager at Battery Systems, and provided a print out of a Load Evaluation Form that can be filled out and sent back to him. Once this is completed he could size the proper batteries for our system. The form requires the type of appliance, quantity, wattage, and hours/day, then Josh said he would be able to size the type of necessary battery system for our Spartan Superway needs.
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