May 2009

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HelioUniversity Offers Solar Installation Training, Saturday, May 16

May 12, 2009 in Uncategorized | No comments

Attention contractors and electricians!  You can learn the solar installation business by attending a HelioUniversity hands on training.  Learn how to plan, permit and install solar!

 

 

We are holding our monthly class for contractors, “Installing Solar Kits” Saturday May 16th.  This 1 day class will cover performing a pre-site, matching your customer to the correct size solar system, rebates, permits, and of course installation.

 

 

Topics Include Planning & Permit, Rebates & Installation. Please note tools are required. Our solar workshops take you through all the areas of providing solar power to a building. There's much more to solar than just the installation procedures.  Enroll in one of our 1 day workshops and learn the ins and outs of successfully installing a solar power system.

 

 

The workshop is held in a solar power installation workshop at the HelioPower facility in Murrieta. Click here for directions.

 

 

Registration for the full day workshop is $300.  To register email Jeff Van Dam at jvandam@heliopower.com or call him at 310 916 8383.  Click here for the registration form.

 

For more information on training and solar kits, please visit us online.

 

 

 

Congressional subcommittee looks at solar development

May 11, 2009 in Clean Energy, Green Collar Jobs, Green Energy | No comments

The Desert Sun reports today, "Congressional subcommittee looks at solar development."

Excerpt:

Witnesses in today’s Congressional subcommittee hearing today said it would take multi-agency cooperation to balance expanding renewable energy with environmental and land disturbance concerns.

Today’s nearly three hour hearing, by the Energy and Minerals Resources subcommittee, started around 9:30 a.m. at the University of California-Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center. Their focus is solar development on federal lands.

 

Nine panelists, including representatives from the California Public Utilities Commission and Bureau of Land Management, discussed various projects underway as well as specific solar projects.

 

Many were California specific. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has set of goal of raising its dependency on renewable energy to 33 percent by 2020, as well as cutting global emission levels by almost 30 percent from current use levels.

 

“These are very, very important goals,” said Julia Levin, the renewable energy commissioner for the California Energy Commission.

 

“These are also critical for our economy. These will create jobs, these will create new business opportunities for California … and finally give us true energy independence.”

For the full article, click here.

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