Great piece on solar powered plane that travelled 13 hours at a rate of 50 kilometers per hour, or 31 mph. 

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/06/solar-plane-takes-flight-with-first-international-trip?cmpid=SolarNL-Thursday-June16-2011

Interestingly, the report also shows the existing homes that add PV have more than twice the additional resale value than that of newly constructed homes with PV.  Regardless, the report found new home builders may consider adding PV to all of its new homes and be willing to accept a lower premium in exchange for faster sales velocity. 

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We were recently names a 2010 Constant Contact All Star. The criteria include:

• communicate with customers and members for all four quarters of the year,
• update their mailing lists often and obtain permission from all their subscribers to contact them,
• have high open and click-through rates, and low bounce rates,
• use mailing list sign-up tools like a “Join My Mailing List” (JMML) box on their website or our app on their Facebook Page,
• use reports to gain insights about their contact list and online marketing activities, and
• use our social media tools.
• If they are an Online Survey customer, they have high survey completion rates.
• If they are an Event Marketing customer, they have a high ratio of invitees who register for their events.
• If they are one of our Partners, they make great use of their own or their clients’ accounts.

Less than 15% of Constant Contact customers receive All Star status. Yay us!

Overview

For most companies and organizations considering rooftop or other on-site solar in the U.S. today, government economic incentives strongly influence when, how, and whether or not to “go solar” at a particular facility. For solar product and service providers, the state and federal policy environment is crucial to determining which markets will be the most active.

In California and New Jersey, advantageous policies have stimulated the creation of the two largest solar markets in the United States. Now other states are beginning to follow suit–including Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and North Carolina.

In this online briefing, Eric Paul, analyst at AltaTerra Research, opens the session with an overview and outlook for federal and state support for distributed renewable energy systems. Jeff Wolfe, chair of the Photovoltaics (PV) division of the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) and CEO of groSolar, provides a perspective on how commercial, institutional, and industrial customers evaluate solar project opportunities. As head of one of North America’s oldest and most geographically diversified solar energy distributors and installers, Mr. Wolfe has unique insight into how customers are actually deploying solar energy systems and which policies have been the most effective at stimulating the market. Mr. Wolfe will be joined by a speaker from SEIA’s Government Affairs division discussing the current state of play and legislative agenda in Washington.

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