Solar Events

12th annual Solar Fiesta, New Mexico's premier Renewable Energy and Sustainability Educational Fair! The theme of this year's event is Building a Sustainable Lifestyle.

A two-day renewable energy fair, the Solar Fiesta features exhibits and workshops about passive solar design, wind and solar electric systems, solar heating and cooling, alternative fuels and vehicles, solar cooking, rainwater catchment, and sustainable building materials, such as strawbale, bamboo and adobe. NMSEA also invites educational institutions, efficiency engineers and consultants, sustainable developers, financers of efficiency projects and recyclers.

Control Your (PV) Future!
Introducing high levels of green energy-- safely, reliably, and with high Power Quality
(Lunch in Free)

Next week at the Solar Power International Conference, the Department of Energy (DOE), the Electric Power Research Instisute (EPRI), Sandia National Laboratories, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have joined forces in a workshop that will focus on PV systems operating in the utility system, and it will review operational issues, update interconnection rules and regulatory actions, address PV lessons learned from high penetration scenarios, identify best practices for distributed generation problem mitigation, discuss technology advancements including advanced inverters, consider forecasting tools for grid operators, and review case studies of industry experience. The workshop will address areas of common interest and is designed for PV developers, system integrators, utility distribution and interconnection engineers, inverter manufacturers, forecast providers, and those who work in codes, standards and regulation.