SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire - March 23, 2009) - The Arizona Solar Power Society will be
hosting a solar power conference that will inform commercial real estate
property owners, property management companies and other landlords that
manage commercial properties on possible options to supplement carbon-based
electricity by installing solar power panels on large rooftops and parking
lots.
"If you own a large commercial roof top and/or a large parking lot and you
do not have solar power panels installed you are missing valuable
opportunities to lower monthly utility bills and decrease harmful fossil
fuel emissions," said Robert Hoskins, Arizona Solar Power Society.
The conference will focus on Arizona's incentive budget of $185 million in
2009 that is available to any commercial building owner who wants to
weatherize buildings, install energy efficiency lighting upgrades and
install solar electric power and solar thermal water heating systems.
Presentations also will cover the Obama administration's American Recovery
and Reinvestment 2009 stimulus plan to spend an additional $55 million to
install renewable energy.
In order to put this money to work, a business plan will be unveiled to
create the first statewide Arizona solar installation training program that
could create thousands of jobs.
Mayors, town council members, chambers of commerce and economic developers
in Cave Creek, Chandler, Fountain Hills, Gilbert, Glendale, Mesa, Paradise
Valley, Peoria, Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe will meet solar installation
companies that can install solar systems on their public buildings and
schools.
The FREE "Building a Commercial Solar Power Industry in Arizona" conference
will be held on March 26, 2009 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Hyatt at
Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Please call Robert Hoskins at (480) 218-4441 to reserve your seat or RSVP
online at
http://www.meetup.com/arizona-solar-power-society/calendar/9636305/.
Presentations:
-- Jane Pater, Summit Blue -- American Recovery and Reinvestment 2009
Stimulus Package
-- Tony Tewelis, APS -- Utility Incentive Programs for Commercial Solar
Power Developers
-- Robert Hoskins -- Arizona Solar Installation Training Program
-- Scott Young, Sky Engineering -- Building Cost-Effective Commercial
Solar Systems
-- Ryan Hurley, Rose Law Group -- Writing Arizona Power Purchase
Agreements
-- Kate Sherwood, Recurrent Energy -- Financing Commercial Solar
Installations
-- Brian Rasmussen, BrightSource Energy -- Building Concentrating Solar
Power Plants in AZ
Contact Information: Contact:
Robert Hoskins
Front Page Public Relations
Phone: (480) 218-4441
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