Free electricity from trees.

Voltree Power’s patented bioenergy harvester converts living plant metabolic energy to useable electricity, providing a unique battery replacement alternative.

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Voltree Power is focused on developing integrated systems that provide highly automated, cost-effective, low-maintenance solutions to real-world sensing and telemetry problems. Our immediate focus is low-power wireless sensing networks and automation systems that are designed with cost-effectiveness and ease of use in mind, while still being versatile and customizable.

In support of our integrated systems focus, Voltree Power has developed products such as our Javelin family of sensor devices, which enables the use of mesh sensor networks in hard-to-reach places, and our patented bioenergy harvesting module, which converts the metabolic energy of plants to useable electricity. Voltree Power’s adaptive mesh networking architecture facilitates the transmission of sensor data from remote areas where connections to the internet or other data networks are not readily available.

Key features and benefits of this technology include:

• Enables the use of mesh sensor technology where it would otherwise be difficult to install power devices or to reach sensor devices for maintenance.
• Compliant with federal standards and international platforms.
• Real-time information and integration with various wireless platforms provides flexibility and adaptability to numerous sensing applications.
• Adds functionality and extends the usefulness of existing systems, simplifies user communication and system diagnostics, and represents a new generation of highly automated, resilient, maintenance-free mesh network.
• Eliminates the cost of (hundreds) of thousands of batteries, labor costs associated with battery replacement/maintenance, and environmental and labor costs of responsible battery disposition/recycling.
• Does not depend on wind, light, heat gradients, or mechanical movement.
• Weather-resistant and completely quiet.
• Absence of any heat or noise signatures, making it ideal for various security-sensitive sensing applications.
• Environmentally benign to produce and operate.
• Parasitically harvests metabolic energy from any large plant without harming it.
• Useful lifetime of the device is only limited by the lifetime of the host.

Rediscover Energy Pennsylvania Information Center

New For Customers in the PPL Service Territory: Questions about what Rate Cap Expiration means to you and your business? Click here to watch WITF-TV's "Caps Off" program that provides advice and information regarding the elimination of electricity rate caps on January 1, 2010 in the PPL service territory. (Note: You will need Apple QuickTime player to watch the video; you can download it here.)

In today’s marketplace, making an informed buying decision about your business’ electricity needs is made complex by the sheer number of cost components that constitute your total energy price. It doesn’t help matters that these 15-20 components are referred to by an “alphabet soup” of acronyms.

GDF SUEZ wants to help simplify things by consolidating these components into two broad cost categories that are driven by distinctly different determinants:

1.) Energy The output of a generator + losses and congestion Majority of total energy cost Highly volatile, but also highly liquid Determined by market forces

2.) Delivery The cost of getting energy from generator to meter Smaller portion of total energy cost Low volatility, but not very liquid Determined predominantly by regulatory bodies and ISO’s

Nikola Tesla got zaped by his cat

Philadelphia Power Lines Explode

How to Change a bulb in a recessed light.

Here is video showing how to remove a trim of a 5 inch recessed light fixture to replace a light bulb. It may sound like a silly topic but for many home owners this bit of knowledge is not intuitive. Some recessed light are just difficult to open even for trained electricians. We have many clients here in Philadelphia that will schedule whole hose bulb replacement every two year. This may sound excessive but if your home has over 25 recessed light a complete bulb updating could save you time and energy. This has been a common practice in commercial building to lower maintenance issues. It also insures that the lighting in your home has an even color temperature.

Happy "OLD STUFF DAY" March 2

Old stuff is fun. That is in flee markets and Antique stores. You don't want your electrical system to be "OLD STUFF" Your main electrical service should be replaced every 30 years. The general house wiring should be updated at least every 60 years.

Give us a call if:

1. Your main safety box is older then 1980.
2. If your house wiring is older then 1950.

Old electric stuff is not made for today's electrical needs.

PECO's Electric System.

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The Electric System



There are various components that are needed to create, transmit, and distribute electricity. The following graphic identifies and describes those various components.



#1 Electricity is generated at one of the many different power plants located throughout the region.
#2 Electricity travels from the power plant over high-voltage transmission lines to substations.
#3 At a substation, the electricity voltage is lowered so that it can travel over the distribution system.
#4 Transformers, both aerial and underground, reduce the electricity voltage even further so it can be accepted by the home or business.
#5 Service lines carry electricity to the home or business.

Touching Wires causes instant death-$200 fine

I have been working on a new electrical panel sticker. I think this one could be worded too strongly. I'm going to stick with the home owner tips instead. I don't think that electricians in Philadelphia are allowed to fine people for touching their electrical services boxed.

Renewable energy

Fuel cells have been a tantilizing technolgy for decades - powering space vehicles, but always a little out of reach for domestic or commercial use. I worked with Greenopolis Partner Plug Power for years - working to provide clean on site energy from hydrogen powered fuel cells. Now there’s the Bloom Box.
That’s not a typo for a new carry-on-your shoulder stereo system. The Bloom Box is a refrigerator-sized box that can power your whole house, store or business.

Bloom Energy is a venture capital funded firm that builds the “Bloom Box”- an appliance sized unit that houses fuel cells running on natural gas, landfill gas, bio-gas or solar power. Fuel cells combine hydrogen with oxygen and emit only heat, electricity and distilled water.

Google has been powering a datacenter with 4 Bloom Boxes running on natural gas for the past year and a half. eBay has 5 of them in San Jose, which they claim have saved them $100,000 in energy costs over the past 9 months.

The Bloom Box debuted on CBS’ 60 Minutes last night.

Education makes all the difference

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This past weekend Generation 3 Electric sent 4 of it's employees to a 3 day conformance in Jersey City. In this picture you can e see Luke S. in a lecture/work shop on costumer service. Our goal it to continue to improve the service the we give to our costumers. One way that we achieve this goal is to invest in education for our staff.