SOLAR INSTALLATIONS: CHARGE YOUR CAR TO RUN YOUR HOUSE

About this episode

The episode discusses how to use solar energy to charge electric vehicles and power homes.

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world. Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! We experience more extreme temperatures because of global energy increase. As we move to the future, it will take all of us to make the world habitable for millennia to come. Monday, we will hear about how to use the sun to charge your car then use your car to run your house! We will replay our show from July 31, 2025 when host Richard Mabion spoke with Kent Rowe and Jennifer Connelly, owners of that house near Wichita. Kent is an Executive Committee member of the Kansas Chapter of Sierra Club, State Energy Chair, and Conservation Chair of the Wichita Chapter. He is a co-founder of Society of Alternative Resources which was instrumental in garnering an Executive Proclamation establishing City of Wichita's Sustainability Integration Board. Kent is a frequent writer for the Kansas Chapter of the Sierra Club Waypoints publication and lectures to groups in topics on sustainability, renewable energy, and microgrid electrification. The use of bidirectional solar collectors is made possible using direct…

People in this episode

Host: Richard Mabion

Guests: Kent Rowe, Jennifer Connelly

Topics covered

• solar energy
• sustainability
• renewable energy
• electric vehicles
• microgrid electrification

Keywords

• solar installations
• electric vehicles
• sustainability
• renewable energy
• microgrid

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sierra Club, Society of Alternative Resources

Places: Wichita

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