ADVISORY, March 15, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) --
WHAT: In what is being billed as the largest business solar panel
installation in the San Joaquin Valley, Exeter-based
Peninsula Packaging will receive a $3.4 million oversized
check from Southern California Gas Co. (The Gas Company) for
installing a flotilla of 4,000 solar panels on 10 acres at
the facility site, creating a virtual solar-farm power plant.
The installed solar farm is a silent, non-polluting
1-megawatt power plant that helps the manufacturer of food
and industrial packaging products reduce future increases in
energy costs. Photovoltaic solar power technology uses solar
cell panels that follow the sun's movement during the day to
convert energy from the sun into electricity. The system
generates enough electricity to power 800 homes.
WHEN: March 16, 2007
TIME: 10 a.m.
Includes brief ceremony and tour of solar farm, viewed from
facility roof.
WHERE: Peninsula Packaging Co.
1030 N. Anderson Rd.
Exeter, Calif. (Directions from Hwy 99: Take the Visalia
exit to Hwy 198 East. Continue on Hwy 198 for 10 miles. Turn
right on road 180, which becomes N. Anderson Rd. Entrance is
first left past the railroad tracks.)
WHO: Ed Byrne, General Manager, Peninsula Packaging Co.
Assemblyman Bill Maze (R-Visalia)
The Gas Company officials