Chris Schairbaum

Chris Schairbaum has written 3 posts for TInergy

Solar Energy Metrics: Good Bye $/Watt – Hello $/Kilowatt-Hour!

Today TI announced that it is sponsoring this year’s Solar Decathlon, to be held in Washington D.C. October 9-18.  Similarly to 2007, 20 university teams are competing in the 2009 event and I’m sure each and every team is hacking their way through home construction, product acquisition and a myriad of design changes as problems [...]

Rest in peace or under solar panels?

Now here’s an efficient use of space…Without diving into the respect and traditions discussion, you have to commend the ingenuity of one of Europe’s latest solar installations.  Undoubtedly we will see more solar and small wind systems popping up in unconventional places in the coming years, all part of move to locate these power generation [...]

Solar power in full glory in San Diego

I’m Chris Schairbaum, Director of Energy Technology Strategy for TI.  Just returned from the Solar Power International Conference in San Diego.  Initial thoughts: a) You’d never know the economy fell off a cliff in the last few weeks, and 2) I must have heard the words “incentive tax credits” fifty times on the first day alone. At [...]