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!

Most people take a vacation to escape the day to day of life and work and to really rest and relax. Jeff & Dori Wolfe are not “most people.” Our founders are taking a vacation to Copenhagen, Denmark to be there for the climate change conference.

As Jeff said, “We’re going to Copenhagen not simply to watch, but to move the world toward a sane climate policy. Taking vacation at a climate conference in not most people’s idea of fun, especially in Denmark in the winter, but Dori and I did not hesitate to commit to it.”

Jeff & Dori are traveling as part of the delegation from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). SEIA has “party status” – meaning the organization has been nominated by the U.S. to participate in climate discussions at the conference. SEIA will be working with other Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) during the conference.

While in Copenhagen, Jeff will be presenting Al Gore’s climate slideshow – an updated version of the one seen in “An Inconvenient Truth” – at the local Bella Center office of the U.S. Alliance for Climate Protection on December 14.

groSolar’s CEO, Jeff Wolfe, keeps popping up all over the place in the world of solar power. From speaking at events like PV America to helping craft policy to help grow the renewable energy industry, Jeff is an active and familiar face in the industry. Most recently Jeff was listed as one of the featured presenters on TheClimateProject.org. The Climate Project is an international non-profit founded by Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore with a mission to increase pubilc awareness of the climate crises at a grassroots level worldwide. Jeff is one of just 2,600 people worldwide trained by The Climate Project to educate people about the effects of global warming.

I am at the North American Climate presenter’s Summit. I am privileged, and burdened, by being one of the 1200 people in the US trained by Al Gore to deliver his climate slideshow. I say privileged because it is an incredible group of people and fantastic training. I say burdened because, well, ignorance is bliss, and not only am I not allowed to be ignorant, I am required to understand and spread both the message of the crisis confronting us and the solutions we must undertake immediately.

We’re getting updated science from some of the leaders in climate science. We’re getting information on human health effects (right now while I’m multi-tasking and typing this actually). We’re getting information on the just released draft of the Waxman -Markey climate bill. And of course, we’re getting motivation and direction for immediate action.

The overriding message is that the time is now, this is the moment. Historians look back through time and note those periods when significant change happened. It is unusual to be able to understand at the time of occurrence, that this is an historic moment in the history of the world. This is such a moment, such a time.
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