groSolar CEO, Jeff Wolfe, was the featured guest on the Joe Cardin show on Wisconsin Public Radio this past Tuesday morning. Listen to the full recording by using the link below:

Jeff Wolfe on the Joe Cardin show of WPR – click “Start Download Now!”

groSolar will be at Solar Power International (SPI) this October 12-14 at the LA Convention Center in Los Angeles. Stop by our booth, #931! SPI is the largest PV industry tradeshow and conference in the solar industry. Over 1,000 exhibitors and nearly 30,000 attendees will be there. Will you?

In addition to our booth at SPI, our CEO, Jeff Wolfe, will be presenting during public night and will also be speaking on a panel. The details are:

What: Jeff Wolfe presenting “Climate Presentation, Problems and Solutions based on ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and ‘Our Choice’ by Al Gore”
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center
Description: Presented at the free “Public Night” of Solar Power International at the LA Convention Center. Attendance at the talk and for the exhibits if free to the public. The Climate Project’s (TCP) mission is to educate the public about the harmful effects of climate change and to work toward solutions at a grassroots level worldwide. Each TCP Presenter delivers a version of Gore’s slideshow based on his best-selling books and the Academy Award-winning documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth”. As part of this select groups of 1200 individuals in the US chosen to become TCP Presenters, Jeff completed the TCP training program in 2007. Less time is spent on defending the climate science, and more solutions are now presented in the slideshow, since climate change is now more widely understood and accepted.

What: Jeff Wolfe Speaking at “Wholesale Distributed Generation: FITs, Standard Contracts, Auctions, and the Next Big Thing in U.S. Solar”
Date: Thursday, October 14th
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 515B
Description: Wholesale distributed generation is one of the fastest growing and most exciting new solar markets in the country. These facilities have sufficient scale to deliver low prices to ratepayers, and virtually unlimited siting opportunities. Come learn from the experts about the multiple business models, programs, and market participants that are emerging to exploit this market opportunity. The panel will feature presentations from leading utilities, solar companies, and policy experts about current events, and a moderated discussion about future developments.

Hope to see you there!

groSolar supports 350.org’s 10-10-10 Global Work Day to fight climate change. Here’s CEO Jeff Wolfe atop our corporate headquarters in White River Junction, VT showing support near the 100 kW solar electric array on our roof.

groSolar is now truly nationwide! Our new online nationwide map is your guide to residential solar across the country. Are you located outside of groSolar’s direct installation area? Use our online tool to get in touch with a local groSolar independent dealer-installer in your area.

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groSolar is heading to Burlington, VT this evening to receive a 5×5x5 Growth Award. We are one of VT’s Top 5 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the Past 5 Years!

A groSolar installation on Burlington, Vermont’s City Market is featured on the US Department of Energy’s Energy Empowers website. Read the article, “Milk, eggs and solar: grocery co-op puts photovoltaics to work.”

We saw this great article by Tom Rooney of SPG Solar on AltEnergyMag.com. It’s called “Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy: It’s All About the Costs” and it does a great job of laying out the practical and economic reasons for investing in solar energy.

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and also a groSolar customer, was on David Letterman on Tuesday night talking about climate change, putting solar on the White House and the future of our little planet.


Bill has been involved in climate change since the 80’s and even wrote the first book on the subject back in 1989. The past two decades have seen the largest increases in carbon output during human history. For the first 10,000 years of human civilization our atmospheric carbon was about 275 parts per million (ppm). Right now we are at 392 ppm. Most climate scientists agree that we need to be at 350 ppm (hence the name of Bill’s organization).


So why aren’t we doing anything to change? Have we become complacent? Or are there enough powerful special interests in the world who don’t want to solve this problem?


Check out Bill’s interview below (and have a tissue handy to wipe away the tears of despair).