Oasis Montana, Inc.

Owner Chris Daum has been in the renewable energy business for 23 years and started her own. Chris Daum - Owner of Oasis Montana renewable energy systems Oasis Montana business in 1998 so that she could provide better customer service on the products that she sells. Chris lives with the products she sells. Her Stevensville office is powered by an eight module solar array (MSX 60's formerly by Solarex) and a Chinook wind generator, with about 1250 amphours of battery storage using Rolls-Surrette CH375s, 6V batteries (similar to L16s), and a 2500W Trace (Xantrex) Power Series 2524 sine wave power inverter which she designed and installed herself. This solar electric system also powers her energy efficient ConServ refrigerator by Vestfrost. She cooks on a Peerless Premier SFK349W 30", 5 burner propane stove.

Mark Dickson (left) and Brad Stevens (right) are systems designers for Oasis MontanaOur Systems Designers include: Mark Dickson who has worked with renewable energy for over 5 years. Mark's fascination with renewables began while managing an off-grid retreat center on the Big Island of Hawaii, which utilized both hydro and solar technologies. More recently, he worked as a ranch manager, in charge of maintaining and upgrading one of the largest residential solar installations in Montana. Mark has since obtained his NABCEP(TM) installer certification and LEED AP.

Brad Stevens lives in his off-grid self-built straw bale house, utilizing PV and supplementing with a generator as needed in the dark days of winter. He helps Mark with local installations and is NABCEP(TM) certified. Brad presently has six Sharp 165 watt solar modules on his home (with a Magnum inverter and Grundfos pump), with plans to expand in the future.

Larry Keogh, trained on military generators in 1971 and "fooling around" with PV since the mid 1980's, Larry obtained an AAS in Energy Technology from the University of Montana, College of Technology in May of 2010. Formally educated in solar, wind, wave, tidal, coal, hydro, geothermal, other energies and storage, and coupled with decades of life experience in electrical work, and being a long term an "energy conservation nut", Larry has the tools and experience to help you gain the edge on sustainable energy for your home or business power project.

At Oasis Montana we "walk the walk and talk the talk". Each of us have our own solar powered electric power systems and live with the energy efficient refrigerators and propane stoves that we sell.

Oasis Montana does not sell one size fits all "solar electric power kits" or "packages". Our photovoltaic (PV) solar electric systems are carefully designed specifically for you so that you never buy more then you need but more importantly we design a system that will meet your individual power requirements; and, you can also add exponentially if your power needs ever increase. We buy components from all vendors and manufacturers so that we are better able to utilize the quality components that are currently available and at the best price/performance that will meet your specific needs.