Well I for one hope it works! I have said from day one they should put chargers 
in every gas station. Then range anxiety would not be a thing and the 
infrastructure is mostly already there


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On Thursday, September 17, 2020, 11:18 PM, Offgrid Systems via EV 
<[email protected]> wrote:

aGREE 100% Jan.

Yeah I was one of the folks involved with BP going 'green' back in the 
late 90's. A fellow engineer and I designed a grid-tie inverter that BP 
decided to pick up for some of their gas stations. They were called "BP 
Connect" stations and they had solar on the fueling island roofs and 
inverters (Trace Engineering) on the posts holding up the roofs.

There is a pretty good picture of the station at 
https://www.alamy.com/bp-petrol-station-with-solar-roof-brighton-uk-image236719.html

  We ended up selling a few hundred inverters to them before they 
cancelled the program. We were pretty excited that a dinosaur company 
could actually be switching, however tentatively, to renewables, and 
were pretty disappointed that they did not see the value in their offering.

Now it looks like they are trying again. Too little too late, in my 
humble opinion

Tim Economu


On 9/17/2020 1:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:36:43 -0700
> From: Jan Steinman<[email protected]>
> To:[email protected]
> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Big Oil's green makeover
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>> From: Mark Abramowitz<[email protected]>
>>
>> I would not call it a green makeover. They are investing in energy that will 
>> make money.
> I'm a bit more cynical about a "green makeover." To paraphrase Yogi Berra, 
> it's like deja vu, all over again!
>
> Anyone else remember when BP re-branded itself as "Beyond Petroleum?"
>
> Then the price of gas went up, and they abandoned that plan!
>
> I expect the same to happen to all the newly-branded "green" polluters. As 
> soon as their main rape-n-pillage business recovers, they'll ditch the 
> "green" bits, pronto!
>
> :::: The more the work is left to nature, the greater the net yield but the 
> longer the time required... Thus sometimes the most apparently productive and 
> high-yielding sources of energy involve a lot of activity for little return, 
> while long-term investments, especially in naturally grown forests, provide 
> the greatest value for future generations. -- David 
> Holmgren<http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=David+Holmgren>  ::::
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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