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​Donations:
We have set up a JustGiving page so that people can raise donations for the event online with money going straight to the charity. Official JustGiving Page - www.justgiving.com/fundraising/cds-p2p-17

Alternatively, if you would like to raise money for the event and collect cash payments please collect one of our sponsorship forms from our offices or click the download link -> Sponsorship Form and print one out.

Any donation big or small is hugely appreciated. Thank-you.

On Friday 10th November between 7:30pm and 12am, Corin Dudley Electrical Services will be sponsoring the Celebration and Race night charity event at Sussex Coast College in Hastings.
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​Tickets are just £15 per person, and that includes a welcome drink, tea/ coffee and a chilli supper. Money goes to the Sara Lee Trust charity.

For more information about the charity and this and other events they have coming up, please take a look at their website - http://www.saraleetrust.org/

A solar eclipse is nothing new, but the problem we are beginning to face now we are turning to more renewable resources for electricity is that when these sources are interrupted they can have detrimental effects on the power grid.

​Previously, a solar eclipse had little to no effect. The gas and nuclear power plants would chug along just as they always had done; producing the power we consume daily. Now, a large proportion of our power comes from solar and the sudden drop in solar input means we need to be prepared for the outage with other sources. 
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​Power grids are not designed for solar eclipses. They ha​ppen a lot faster than the incremental decrease or increase in power that is seen with a sunrise or sunset. Eclipses also affect a wider area than that of a typical cloud bank. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation has urged areas with high solar penetration to prepare plans for the event; notably the states of Nevada and North Carolina.

North Carolina will be hit hard due to the fact they have installed more than 3,000 megawatts of solar power electricity and the eclipse is due to block out more than 90% of sunshine across the entire state. It highlights the fragility of renewable sources and how for the time being until situations like this can be cared for independently, a backup of other power resources need to remain.

#solar #solareclipse #renewable #usa

Tesla started pre-orders for Solar Roof installations during Q2 of this year, and since then has begun installations on employee houses. Elon Musk, JB Straubel both have it installed on their properties.

Solar Roof which was first unveiled back in October 2016 is the first of its kind. The product which is designed to resemble a normal roof, but contains hundreds of hidden solar panels within the tiles removes the need for panels bolted onto the exterior of the roof.

From Monday 31st July and through to tomorrow (Friday 4th August 2017), we; Corin Dudley Electrical Services are taking part in the 2017 'Battle of the Workplaces' on the radio. We actually took part last year too and managed to get to the second round. We're back, and we're going for gold this time.
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