Events/Webinars

Event Sponsorship Opportunity at SPI 2010

The Solar Foundation seeks sponsorship at Solar Power International 2010 to commemorate the release of its highly-anticipated National Solar Jobs Census. The Census is designed to gather data on U.S. solar labor supply and demand and is being conducted by The Solar Foundation in collaboration with Cornell University and with support from SEIA and SEPA. 

This unprecedented Census looks at all types of jobs associated with the solar industry and will provide stakeholders with timely and credible information to understand the solar industry’s labor market conditions and potential for growth. The National Solar Jobs Census will be released for the first time at Solar Power International 2010 in October. There are three tiers of event sponsorship available:

Platinum Sponsorship ($5,000). As a Platinum Sponsor, your company will receive recognition on The Solar Foundation’s website and event invitations (electronic and print), including press releases. Your company will also be named as a “co-host” for the release party, mentioned during the plenary presentation and will have an opportunity to say a few “words of welcome” at the party.

Gold Sponsorship ($3,000). Gold Sponsors will receive recognition on The Solar Foundation’s website and event invitations (electronic and print), including press releases.

Silver Sponsorship ($1,000). Silver Sponsors will receive recognition on The Solar Foundation’s website and event invitations (electronic and print).

To sponsor The Solar Foundation’s Census Release Party, contact Andrea Luecke, The Solar Foundation’s Acting Executive Director at andrea.luecke@solarfound.org or (202) 469-3732.  

Sponsorships and donations are tax-deductible.

 

The Solar Foundation's Wednesday Webinar Series

The Solar Foundation's Wednesday Webinar Series ran from February to May, 2010. The series provided outreach to a broad audience, including policy makers, solar stakeholders, and the public, on current barriers to widespread solar adoption and innovative remedies to these barriers.  Each week, the series covered a different relevant topic from across the solar value stream, such as finance, workforce training, current policies, utility interaction and tariffs, permitting, technology innovation and aesthetics, purchase process streamlining, insurance issues and more.

2.17.10 Accelerating Project Finance: Why? Who? How? Speaker: Doug Payne, SolarTech - Presentation / Audio File 

2.24.10 Reducing Solar Time to Market: UL in the New Decade Speaker: Evelyn Butler, UL - Presentation / Audio File 

3.3.10 The Department of Energy's Market Transformation Program Speaker: Charlie Hemmeline, DoE - Presentation / Audio File 

3.10.10 No Webinar 

3.17.10 Community Purchases: An Emerging Method for Solar Purchases Speaker: Gwen Rose, Vote Solar; Kevin Fox, IREC; Andria Jacob and Lee Rahr, Solar Now! - Presentation / Presentation 

 3.24.10 DOE Solar Demonstration Zone Project Speaker: Mark Lausten, Solar Energy Technologies Program, DOE - Presentation / Audio File

3.31.10 No Webinar

4.07.10 Project: Permit Speakers: Annie Carmichael and Gwen Rose, Vote Solar - Presentation / Audio File

4.14.10 No Webinar

4.21.10 Changing Our Solar Vocabulary Speaker: Danny Kennedy, President, Sungevity - Presentation / Audio File

            Presentation Youtube Clips:

                           1. Slide 17, An Instructive Video #1

                           2. Slide 21, Instructional Video #2

                           3. Slide 24, Money Falling

                           4. Slide 26, Trying to Say How Sungevity Works...

 4.28.10 Workforce Development Speaker: Ezra Auerbach, Executive Director, NABCEP - Presentation / Audio File

5.5.10 Insuring Solar Photovoltaics: Challenges and Possible Solutions Speakers: Karlynn Cory and Bethany Speer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory -  Presentation / Audio File

                        * NREL Technical Report

                         * RE Project Finance Website 

Past Events 

3.8.10 (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST)  Feed-in Tariff Pricing in the US: Practical Approaches to Establishing Wholesale Programs at the State Level Presented by: Vote Solar and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council

4.21.10 - 4.22.10 Solar Leadership Summit Presented by: SolarTech UL, SEMI PV Group, IREC, NABCEP and the DOE Solar ABCs - Event Brochure