What: 5th Annual Show Me Solar Tour - Columbia

Where: Student Center, Columbia College, 1001 Rogers St., Columbia, Missouri

When: 10 am - 6 pm, Saturday, September 18th, 2011

Fee: Free (Registration day of festival required)

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Instructions: Three solar tours will be offered throughout the day - one prior to the start of the Sustainable Living Fair, the second in the middle of the day and the final tour at the end of the fair. Tours will form at the north entrance to the Student Commons fifteen minutes prior to leaving.

First (Early Bird) Tour, 10:30-11:45, Utility Grid Intertied CIGS Thin-Film & Solar Shingles
Meet at north doors of the Commons. Participants will gather and carpool to the City of Columbia's Ash St. Pump station site of two 5 kW thin-film solar arrays donated to the city utility by Dow Chemical company and installed by Missouri Solar Applications as part of Columbia Water & Light's innovative Solar One program. Both arrays feature advanced CIGS materials in lieu of traditional silicon solar cells in two form factors including the Midwest test array for Dow's newly released solar shingle product.

Second Tour, 12:15-1:15, Residential Solar Hot Water Systems
Well known for it's low cost and rapid payback, solar thermal technology is an affordable way to reduce energy bills. This one-hour tour features a Domestic Solar Hot Water system that serves four residents in four apartments. Participants will gather and carpool. Meet at north doors of the Commons.

Third Tour, 4:45-5:45, Residential Grid Intertied Solar PV plus Geothermal Heating
Meet at north doors of the Commons, Participants will gather and carpool to the home of Terra Nova Community, a Peaceworks member household, that, in August 2008, installed a photovoltaic solar electric array and in 2010 a second array and the equipment to produce alternating current and to tie their home electricity-generating system to the grid, allowing excess power to feed the grid and, in effect, turn their meter backwards. In the summer of 2009, they installed a ground-source heat pump at their adjacent house.

For more information, contact: Natalia Prats, 314-471-7109, nprats@showmesolar.org