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Commercial-quality and industrial-grade
solar lighting can be installed on pathways, trails, walkways, parking
lots, boat launches, playgrounds, retail properties, fuel stations, University
campuses, corporate locations & entrances, and communities around
the country. The stand-alone solar powered solutions are ideal for environmentally-sensitive
locations and remote areas that often have no lighting, either because
the lighting was not planned or because it is cost-prohibitive to run
power lines. Solar lighting solutions provide safety and security to our society, while
saving energy and protecting environment. We strive for providing dependable
and affordable products to promote the Green Earth Movement.
In 2006 California made a major commitment to solar power by adopting
the California Solar Initiative, a ten-year incentive program with the
goal of installing 3,000 megawatts of solar power on the equivalent of
one-million rooftops. This program continues the solar incentives started
in 1998, but the long-term commitment to supporting solar will have a
profound effect on the amount of solar installed.
Environmental and social benefits
In California, extensive use of Photovoltaic (PV) power will offset the
need to build new natural gas–powered “peaker” electricity
plants. These plants are designed to come online during the peak periods
of energy demand (e.g. summer afternoons) in order to stabilize the electricity
grid. The more PV systems are reducing the peak demand, the fewer peaker
plants will be burning natural gas, which releases global-warming carbon
dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. On an annual “per kilowatt”
basis, PV typically offsets or saves up to 16 kilograms of nitrous oxides
(NOx), nine kilograms of sulfurous oxides (SOx), and 0.6 kilogram of other
particulates. In addition, a typical 2.5kW residential PV system will
offset 4,050 lbs. of CO2 per year. These savings, of course, vary depending
on how much fossil fuel is used to produce local power, and the amount
of sunlight falling in the area.
Events and Resources
California Solar Center -Web source
for solar energy in California
http://www.californiasolarcenter.org/index.html
Solar Power Conference & Expo
2008 - San Diego, California
http://www.solarpowerconference.com/
Solar Electric Power Association
http://www.solarelectricpower.org/index.php?page=calendar
Northern California Solar Energy
Association
http://www.norcalsolar.org/
American Solar Energy Society
http://www.ases.org/solar2008/
