Abdalla House
8005 Mary Curran Ct
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It all started after I was fired from my Corporate job in the Oil & Gas industry.
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Renewable energy features
Solar PV
kW: 9.3
Installer/contractor: Good Faith Energy, LLC
Equipment
Tesla Solar roof
Delta inverters 1x 4kW and 1x 8kW
Tesla Powerwall 13.5 kWh
SPAN Drive EV charger
Tesla wall connector
Host Comments
It was my first time really experiencing failure. I packed up my belongings in two backpacks and wandered for a year throughout South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. During long train rides, I thought a lot about the carbon footprint I had created from working in the Oil and Gas sector.
One day while reflecting and traveling through Germany’s country-side, I witnessed a landscape I had never seen before - countless rooftops, covered in solar panels, all being powered by the sun. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. My research led me to find out that ~40% of Germany’s power supply came from Solar Energy, meanwhile, receiving the same amount of sunlight as ALASKA! Amazing.
I was now fully bought into transitioning away from the mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy, towards the solar-electric economy, which I believed to be the primary sustainable solution. A future where everything is powered by the sun, including the electric vehicles in your garage.
When I returned to the States, I contacted a few solar companies to start the process of installing solar panels on his mom’s house in Plano, TX. Some companies never responded, others gave me quotes over the phone, and none gave me the education I was looking for.
I quickly learned about the North Texas Renewable Energy Group and the Plano Solar Advocates, two nonprofits based in DFW dedicated to the advancement of renewable energy education and advocacy. I spent the next 24 months volunteering my time in an effort to soak up as much knowledge and experience as I could to bring my renewable energy project development dreams to fruition. We are one of the exclusive Tesla Certified Installers in Texas. It is a new product, so naturally, I decided that who better to test it than me?