News for March 12, 2002

Survey Finds California Homeowners Would Pay More for a Home With Solar or Wind Technology

Whole Foods Introduces Unique Solar Power Lighting System at Its Berkeley Store

Berkeley and Hopland Solar Electric Power Plants Generate More Electricity Than Expected

San Francisco Airport installs 20 kW UniSolar 'Peel and Stick' Array

Religious Leaders Call for Conservation and Renewable Energy

Los Angeles Community College District adopts 'green' construction standard

Japan's Kajima Develops Design Tool to Optimize Solar Power Facilities

World Solar Electricity Price Increases Set to Reverse in 2002, Report says

New Solar Panels for Hubble Telescope

IN BRIEF

The Solar Way -PV on Indian Lands - New Publication from Sandia National Lab. Excellent and inspirational! The many illustrations of how photovoltaics are synergistic with the Seven Generations philosophy, provide a powerful message for all of us. Caring for the earth and the people on it, about future generations, doesn't require 'energy sacrifice' today. In fact, photovoltaics allow for an enhanced quality of life today, without compromising quality of life tomorrow. view online or order free copy here

CPUC posts first year SELFGEN Participation Data - CPUC Energy Division has posted Self-Generation Incentive Program 2001 Activity Report on the CPUC website . The report provides statewide participation data and is also downloadable as Word and PDF documents (links are at the top of the page).

CEC unveils online Interconnect Application Form - California Energy Commission (CEC) now has an online utility to generate an Application to Interconnect Non-Utility Generation for customers of SDG&E and SCE - answering the questions online will generate an Acrobat PDF file which can then be printed out and submitted to the utility.

Benicia students take successful look into future [SF Chronicle 2002.3.1] Three students from St. Dominic's School in Benicia looked into the future, and the engineering judges of Bay Area's Future City Competition liked what they saw. Seventh-graders Jenna Nunes, Ellen Quickley and Victoria Delgado created a future city of 70,000 people who live in residential clusters partially powered by solar energy and transported by gondola to the economic center of town. They modeled their city on the computer, then created a three- dimensional model with the help of their teacher, Dolores Bond, and Benicia engineer Mary Jane Fitzgerald. Their model was judged best among 28 that were submitted by students at Bay Area schools.

California Solar Center partners with EFI to offer Energy Efficient Products - Looking to reduce your energy bills? Still haven't converted to Compact Fluorescent Lights(CFL)? Here's your chance to get a great deal on CFLs plus a whole catalog of energy efficient products - and support California Solar Center at the same time. Through a new partnership with Energy Federation Inc. ( a non-profit corporation), California Solar Center will receive 15% of all product orders originating from the CSC site. Click here now to explore the store. Be sure to order some CFLs on the first page. Thanks for your support.