TEGG SERVICES
Energy Savings for the
Environment & Your Pocketbook
| Saving energy helps to reduce our carbon footprint and helps to reduce air pollution. That’s a good thing for us and our offspring. When you can also reduce your financial overhead for energy costs it becomes a great thing. |
PG&E is now offering rebates and tax credits for residential and commercial customers who install solar panels . Commercial customers who install fluorescent lighting fixtures and variable frequency drives for motors can also receive impressive rebates and tax credits from PG&E. |
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Knights' Electric's TEGG Services
offers solar panel energy systems for
commercial and residential applications
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Luka Dexter, Knights’ Electric’s TEGG DES Project Manager, can help customers interested in these energy savings programs right over the phone without doing a walk through of a home or facility. |
Knights' Electric installed these high bay fluorescent
lighting fixtures replacing less efficient metal halide
lights in this Santa Rosa showroom
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| “If a customer gives me the last six months of PG&E bills I can estimate the rebates and tax credits they would receive by installing solar panels and/or fluorescent lighting”, says Dexter. |
Energy savings for a commercial warehouse that replaces existing metal halide or high pressure sodium lighting with fluorescent high bay lighting would be a tax credit of sixty cents per square foot of the facility if the energy cost is reduced by 50%. Knights’ Electric has helped save energy costs for commercial clients with fluorescent lighting change outs. |
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For commercial facilities, which have motors to power production, Knights’ Electric looks at the efficiency of the motors first. If motors can be replaced with a NEMA Spec motor PG&E will award a rebate for the installation. Knights’ Electric can also install variable frequency drives to save energy costs for existing motors. |
Knights' Electric can size VFD's to fit the needs
of various sized motors and applications
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| Knights’ Electric can even calculate your carbon credits when you install energy saving products. A 12KW solar panel system saves 27,900 pounds of carbon per year, which is equivalent to driving 30,917 miles in a midsize automobile. 70 trees would have to be planted to erase this carbon footprint. |
COMMERCIAL
Traverso's will Open Soon at New Home
| Traverso’s, a Santa Rosa landmark for over 75 years, will relocate to Fountaingrove Village in late May or early June of 2009. The move from downtown to a location with ample parking and a variety of retail stores and professional services should increase business for Traverso’s, a specialty food and spirits market and the anchor store for Fountaingrove Village. |
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Traverso's is moving to Fountaingrove Village at Fountaingrove Parkway and Stagecoach Road
in Santa Rosa and they plan to open their food and spirits specialty market at the end of May
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Fountaingrove Village, which was built in 2006 by Carco Investments, consists of about ten businesses and 21 single family homes, which are located on a connected street behind the business buildings. Knights’ Electric has been involved in the project in a design/build role from the onset. Now they are involved in completing tenant improvements for Traverso’s, as they have for the other businesses. |
Knights' Electrc foreman Dan Beltran checks a
lighting
control panel at Traverso's
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| Knights’ Electric is completing the installation of receptacles, switches, cover plates and light fixtures for Traverso’s. They have run wire and set the sub panel boxes, which are fed from a distribution panel located in the adjacent tenant space. |
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Knights’ Electric has installed nine recessed compact fluorescent fixtures over the deli case and 46 recessed fluorescent lighting troffers for the deli and food prep area, the receiving area, offices and break room. Knights’ Electric is also installing 15 pendant mounted, high bay fluorescent lighting fixtures in the vaulted ceiling area. |
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Knights' Electric installed recessed compact
fluorescent fixtures over the deli counter
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Some of the other businesses that Knights’ Electric has completed tenant improvements for include Bell Investments, P.I.N.K, a high end women’s clothing store, The Loft, a hair salon, Fountaingrove Dry Cleaners, Centro Espresso and Wells Fargo Bank. Richard Freitas, Knights’ Electric Commercial Estimator and Project Manager, has been involved in the project since its inception. |
Knights' Electric installed this
conduit and gutter on the store ceiling
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THE COMPANY
Michael Ragsdale –
Knights’ Electric & More
| Michael Ragsdale, General Manager of Knights’ Electric, Inc.’s TEGG Services, has had a long and productive career at Knights’ Electric. Ragsdale began work at Knights’ Electric in 1980. Over the next 17 years he was employed as an electrician in the field and then moved into the office as an estimator. |
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During the latter years of this period he consulted with Knights’ Electric for the procurement of their computer technology systems and then entered a training program for computer system networking. In 1997 Ragsdale began the IT and Emerging Technology Department at Knights’ Electric. In 2004 Ragsdale became the general manager of Knights’ Electric’s TEGG Services. In 2009 he also became the manager of FacilityOne for Knights’ Electric. |
Michael Ragsdale, Knights' Electric's
TEGG Services General Manager
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Ragsdale is an active member of the Rotary of Windsor and is currently the proud host parent of a Rotary Exchange Student. He has also volunteered at the Boys & Girls Club of Windsor. Michael has been married for 27 years to Barbara Ragsdale, President & CEO of Knights’ Electric.
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Michael is an avid motorcyclist
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Barbara will become North Coast Builders Exchange President in July. She is only the second women to hold that office at the NCBE.The Ragsdale’s are the proud parents of two wonderful children; Elizabeth, 24, is a recent graduate of Sacramento State and Zachariah, 21, is a third year student at Humboldt State. In the summer of 2006 Michael and his son rode their motorcycles 7467 miles across the United States to the East Coast and back. Ragsdale is a certified PADI (Professional Diving) instructor, a black belt in Taekwondo, an avid motorcyclist and a boating enthusiast. |
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