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Nextronex hits significant milestones in first yearWritten by Duane Ramsey | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Nextronex Energy System of Toledo has hit some significant milestones during the startup company's first full year of making inverter systems for solar installations.
The most significant achievement could be that the company more than doubled its sales in the first eight months and exceeded $1 million in sales in August, said Chairman and CEO W. Bruce Larsen.
Nextronex has no long-term loans or government-backed guarantees but has more than $2 million in preferred investments from its shareholders to date, Larsen said.
"We're doing it the old-fashioned way with investments from a not too large but very diverse group of private and institutional investors," he said.
The company recently offered another $1 million stock option to potential investors to continue its pursuit of $70 million in prospects for new business. Larsen said the company has a good chance at landing a sizeable share of those opportunities.
"We're looking for first movers who are willing to take the risk and try it," Larsen said.
Nextronex began marketing and producing its exclusive Ray-Max Inverter System, which offers high energy output and lower installation costs for solar energy projects, in 2010.
Larsen said the company is awaiting issuance of two patents pending for an inverter system the company produces. He hopes that President Obama's policies to accelerate the patent process may get them issued more quickly.
"Customers who have taken a chance on a new company and new inverter concept are now realizing the benefits of the system. … As much as a 14 percent higher energy output than similar arrays in the same geographic regions," Larsen said.
He said Nextronex developed a "smart" system in which multiple inverters interact in concert to optimize efficiency as the solar plant generates more energy, lowers the cost per watt and extends the life of the core inverters.
The inverters are designed for maximum wattage output generated by each solar array on peak sun days, according to Peter Gerhardiner, vice president of technical sales.
Larsen said customers are getting more energy for their investment. A one megawatt installation produces about 7 percent more energy daily which translates into one full percentage point of return on investment.
"We're helping to make solar energy more competitive by making it more efficient. We continue to push that technological edge in the inverter business and it's not an easy technology to produce," Larsen said.
Nextronex recently moved its headquarters and manufacturing operation to a new facility at the Nitschke Technology Commercialization Complex at the University of Toledo.
Larsen said the main metal components of the inverter's frame structure are built in Ohio. The nearly 300 electronic components required for each inverter are stocked and assembled one at a time by two employees.
The firm currently has the capacity to build one inverter a day but can easily scale up based on demand. Larsen said they keep no inventory of inverters in stock and build them as needed for each order or project.
One of its latest projects was providing six inverters for the one-megawatt system for the City of Toledo at the Collins Park Water Treatment Plant. The solar field provides one megawatt of energy to the plant, which typically requires five megawatts for operation.
The inverters convert the solar energy collected by 12,904 77.5-watt thin film solar panels provided by First Solar of Perrysburg. AP Alternatives and Advanced Distributed Generation (ADG) provided equipment, installation and performance testing facilities.
The Collins Park project was the culmination of a $5.2 million public/private partnership and investment to bring clean, alternative energy to the city while reducing energy consumption costs for the plant.
The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority provided analysis, structuring and legal support with $1 million in long-term fixed rate bond financing for the project. IPS Energy Ventures provided additional equity financing with construction management for the facility it will own and maintain for the first 10 years of operation.
Kevin Moyer, executive director of energy efficiency and alternative energy for the port authority, said they chose Nextronex inverters due to their efficiency and flexibility.
Nextronex has provided more than six megawatts of inverter systems for projects during the past year, including its first international order for a one-megawatt system in Thailand. It also completed its first rooftop installation on the Toledo Museum of Art with ADG; completed its first industrial brownfield site for Pilkington with Hull & Associates; expanded the original solar site for the 180th Air National Guard at Toledo Express Airport; and participated in the ground-breaking for the five-megawatt Solar Vision project in Celina, Ohio.
Larsen said the company wanted "to establish a footprint in its own backyard" before venturing into other states and countries.
"We're now poised to move outside the state," Larsen said. "We are seeking business in states with aggressive alternative energy markets such as California, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Florida and New Jersey."
Larsen was recruited to serve as the company's CEO after taking early retirement from Owens-Illinois. He served as president of O-I's $1.4 billion Plastic Products Division with 33 multi-national facilities and offices during his career with the company.


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1 large
onion, diced
1 (14.5 ounce) can
diced tomatoes
5 large cloves
garlic, chopped
1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle
1/2 cup
red wine
2 tablespoons
peppercorns in brine, crushed
This was my first time making mussels at home; this recipe was easy and delicious. I stuck to the recipe, but added mushrooms, and served over pasta. My teenager and I loved it! Fabulous!
Big disappointment. Edible, but wrong so many ways. First of all, there were 3 big eaters and I bought just 2 pounds of mussels and we had leftovers (maybe wouldn't have if they had tasted better), but 2 pounds for 3 was ample - not 5 pounds for 4! Secondly, boil 10 minutes and then lower heat and cook another 5 until the shells open? You're kidding, right? The shells opened within a couple of minutes in the pot. That left the onion and garlic not cooked enough and the beer taste very pronounced. Glad I didn't bother with the linguini, as the the broth was, well, broth-like and not likely to stick to anything. We fished out the mussels and ate the bread. First time I had tried a recipe that included both beer and red wine. Probably the last. Try another recipe. At $4.99 a pound, mussels deserve better.
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Melissa's recipe is terrific, just like the other reviewers said! I served it over linguine and sprinkled red hot pepper flakes on top for an added kick. A must try!
Absolutely delicious - wouldn't change a thing! Made it for an appetizer before our baked haddock dinner & it was so yummy!
I didn't have the onion and used onion powder instead, used red cooking wine in place of red wine. I used canned plum tomatos and pureed the ingredients. It seemed to have a really nice flavor before mussels added. But as the mussels cooked, the sauce thinned and lost flavor. I imagine not using the onion & real red wine made a difference in the flavor. I prefer a white wine base with garlic instead of tomatoe/red wine base.
Easy and Excellent. I didn't use the peppercorns and didn't miss them. The cooking instructions were right on for plump well cooked, but not chewy mussels.
This was fantastic. I used a a can of diced tomatoes with chiles, which added great flavor. The broth was a little watery(but so was my can of diced tomatoes), so the mussels were removed when cooked, and the liquid was reduced. This was served over angel hair. Will definitely make again.
Sorry but this was just OK. It was missing flavour. Maybe a little red pepper or more garlic,believ it or not. The sauce was too thin for pasta. Oh well, at least it was edible.
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Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 209
Calories from Fat: 13
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Posted: April 2, 2014
Congratulations to Professor Matt Cohen, who has just co-edited Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas, with Jeffrey Glover through the University of Nebraska Press.
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About the Book
In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other kinds of surfaces. No one method of conveying meaning was privileged, and written texts often relied on nonwritten modes of communication.
Colonial Mediascapes examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Extending the textual foundations of early American literary history, the editors bring a wide range of media to the attention of scholars and show how struggles over modes of communication intersected with conflicts over religion, politics, race, and gender. This collection of essays by major historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars demonstrates that the European settlement of the Americas and European interaction with Native peoples were shaped just as much by communication challenges as by traditional concerns such as religion, economics, and resources.
Matt Cohen is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Jeffrey Glover is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and the author of Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604–1664.
Contributors: Ralph Bauer, Heidi Bohaker, Galen Brokaw, Jon Coleman, Jeffrey Glover, Peter Charles Hoffer, Andrew Newman, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Richard Cullen Rath, Sarah Rivett, Gordon M. Sayre, and Germaine Warkentin.
"Colonial Mediascapes offers compelling insights from a veritable Who's Who of early American literacy studies. The range of topics, the geographical diversity, and the thoughtfully developed connections between these essays makes this a particularly welcome project. This is a timely collection that will without a doubt have a major impact on a number of intersecting fields—book history, Native studies, early American studies, literacy studies."—Hilary E. Wyss, Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University and author of English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830
Publication of this volume was assisted by the Virginia Faulkner Fund, established in memory of Virginia Faulkner, editor in chief of the University of Nebraska Press.