News ARCHIVE

3/20/07 Santa Cruz, CA.

Mike Arenson has begun solar design work on the remodel of the historic St. Francis Retreat, in San Juan Bautista, CA. Working with the sustainability team at Fall Creek Engineering, Arenson will provide design and planning of solar electric and hot water systems. The St. Francis Retreat is operated by the Franciscan Friars of California. It is recovering from a fire which destroyed the original 160 year old ranch house, last June. Learn about St. Francis http://www.stfrancisretreat.com/

3/12/07 Wuxi, China.

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), one of the world's leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, announced fourth quarter and full year 2006 financial results. Highlights include production output was 160.1MW, and full year 2006 total net revenues went up 165.0% to $598.9 million. (Full Circle Solar has installed nearly 75 kW of SunTech solar panels in the last 12 months.)

3/5/2007 Monterey, CA.

California Farm Conference. Mike Arenson featured speaker in session on “Energy Alternatives for Farmers”. Recommends financing solar power systems through leasing or home equity.

2/22/2007 Santa Cruz, CA.

Full Circle Solar has added Open Energy System Solar Roofing Tiles to its custom building products. This unique solar product offers a high efficiency building integrated approach to installing solar electric systems.

2/14/2007 Tulare, CA.

World Ag Expo showcases solar power. Farmers and ag producers looking at solar electricity as a way to bring down costs.

2/9/2007 Pleasant Hill, CA.

PG&E discussed the latest information about California’s solar power incentives, the California Solar Initiative. They presented new options for getting paid to generate electricity from solar, and high-tech requirements for measuring the power generated. Solar rebates are declining quickly, faster than most people in the industry have predicted.

1/25/2007 Pacific Grove, CA.

Eco-Farm Conference. Solar in Agriculture featured on tour, and at Full Circle Solar exhibit.

1/24/2007 Watsonville, CA.

Solar Power on the Farm, featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Live Earth Farm gets 80% of its electricity from the sun. Tom Broz, owner of Live Earth Farms, expects the system will pay for itself in 7 to 8 years.

1/23/2007 Pacific Grove, CA.

Full Circle presents at the Smart Energy Management in Agriculture Conference, and tours the Live Earth Farm solar installation.

1/15/07 Sacramento, CA.

New state Rebate program not ready to go, expected complete in the next 2 weeks.

1/1/2007 San Francisco, CA.

PG&E residential rates have gone up again! The latest rate schedule from PG&E shows an increase in the the highest tier price of electricity of 7%.

12/3/2006 Sacramento, CA.

The rebate is expected to drop to $2.50/watt on January 1, 2007. The program will be taken over and administered by the SGIP administrators. Stay tuned for more details.

12/2/2006 Santa Cruz, CA.

Congratulations to solar customer J.D. Hoye, who has been named president of the National Academy Foundation, an educational reform group. The foundation has received a $5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to fund academies in high need urban districts. Hoye was a former director of the National School-to-Work office in Washington, D.C.