6:30 p.m.
Systems
Design
Dr.
Roger Messenger, PhD, PE and Dan Morris
Dr. Messenger, with Vergona/Bowersox Electric and Dan Morris,
with Sun Electronics will illustrate three systems: a $2000
minimal system for emergency back-up, a $10,000 expandable
grid-connected system, and a $30,000+ system that not only
supplies the building’s energy needs, but supplies FPL the
excess. They will discuss costs, available incentives, design
and installation time, and space requirements for each system
type.
7:30 p.m.
Codes and Legislation
Panel discussion
This panel will answer moderated and audience questions
pertaining to current legislation, code requirements, federal
and state incentive programs, and the role of organizations like
the Florida Solar Energy Center.
Roger
Messenger
is Professor Emeritus of Electrical
Engineering at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton,
Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Minnesota and is a Registered Professional
Engineer and a Certified Electrical Contractor, who enjoys
working on a field installation as much as he enjoys teaching a
class or working on the design of a system or contemplating the
theory of operation of a system. His research work has ranged
from electrical noise in gas discharge tubes to deep impurities
in silicon to energy conservation. He worked on the development
and promulgation of the original Code for Energy Efficiency in
Building Construction in Florida and has conducted extensive
field studies of energy consumption and conservation in
buildings and swimming pools. He and Jerry Ventre have
published Photovoltaic Systems Engineering (CRC Press,
Boca Raton, FL) and the 2nd Edition of this engineering textbook
(2004). He has also contributed chapters on Photovoltaics (PV)
to 4 handbooks and has designed and supervised the installation
of 4 utility interactive PV systems with battery backup.
During his 37 years at Florida Atlantic University, he has
worked his way through the academic ranks and has also served in
administrative posts for 11 years, including Department Chair,
Associate Dean and Director of the FAU Center for Energy
Conservation. He has received three university-wide awards for
teaching as well as the FAU Alumni Association Degree of
Difference Award and the FAU President’s Leadership Award. He
has developed and taught a senior elective course on PV Power
Systems yearly since 1997. Recently he has been actively
involved with the Florida Solar Energy Center in the development
of courses, exams and study guides for voluntary certification
of PV installers worldwide and has been a consultant on battery
backup grid-connected PV systems to Sun Electronics, Miami, FL.
