About Hardy Solar in san Diego
Back in 1977, Hardy Day was a retired businessman and musician. Born in west Texas, Hardy had spent his youth playing bass on the Grand Ole Opry and toured with the late great Cowboy Copas. Most of Hardy's adult life had been spent owning and operating business colleges. In retirement, Hardy liked to spend time in Baja, Mexico. However, there was not much in the way of reliable electricity. For that reason, Hardy relied on generators for his energy needs. He soon realized that propane generators burned to much fuel. Unfortunately, there were no reasonably priced american-made Diesel generators. Seeing the need, he decided to build one. It was not long before word traveled and before he knew it, he was out of retirement and building generators full time to keep up with the demand. Hardy Diesels & Equipment was born.
Hardy realized that there were some new technologies beginning to emerge and began packaging complete off grid energy systems that included batteries to store energy so that the generators he was building did not need to run 24 hrs a day. In the beginning, the energy stored in the batteries had to be used to run 12v lights and appliances. Soon, there were inverters available that could convert the DC energy stored in the batteries to household AC energy for use with conventional lights and appliances. It was around this time that Photovoltaic Solar panels were beginning to become available. Knowing a good thing when he saw it, Hardy began integrating solar into his off grid energy systems.
Hardy was definitely a Pioneer in the alternative energy industry. He was also way ahead of his time in the Bio Diesel movement. Hardy had located a special press used to make sunflower seed oil out of sunflower seeds. This oil was then used to power Diesel engines to produce clean renewable energy from what had always been considered a fossil fuel engine. Hardy also contributed to several electric vehicles way back in the late 70's. Hardy helped design a Diesel driven DC Alternator that could charge a bank of batteries and power a vehicle and get up to 100 miles per gallon.
In 1995, Hardy retired again. Son Loren Day, who had been working in the family business since he was 13 years old, was now in charge. Having been involved with the company all along, Loren began to sense things were changing. Along with maintaining and improving the off grid energy business, Loren began exploring grid-connected / grid-tied alternative energy. At first it was putting back energy that had always been wasted load banking the generators that were built at the facility. In 2001, Loren received his California C10 electrical contractors license. He saw the need to start installing grid connected or grid tied solar systems in San Diego. Hardy Solar was one of the first companies to install grid tied solar in San Diego.
Off grid systems are great for people who have no electricity available as well as for those who live or are moving to a location where the cost to bring in electricity exceeds $25,000. If you have electricity where you live, grid tied solar systems are more practical for the following reason. Think of the electric grid as a 100% efficient battery bank that never needs replacing. In other words, 100% of the energy you put into the grid you can take back free of charge. Again there are no expensive batteries to maintain or replace. There are also incentives for grid tied solar in San Diego in the form of state rebates and federal tax credits.
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| Hardy Solar 15749 Lyons Valley Rd. Jamul CA 91935 Toll Free: (800) 341 7027 Int: (619) 669 1995 |
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