On Thursday, Dec 11, Governor Tim Kaine announced his ‘Renew Virginia’ initiative – a proposal designed to make Virginia a leader in the energy conservation and the alternative energy industry as a whole.  The meeting, held at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, included the Governor’s economic development team, as well as energy-related business owners, including Solar Panels Plus Executive VP & CFO, Bijan Kazemi. 

Other attendees include:

Karl Bren, President, GreenVisions Consulting

Tom Farrell, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dominion

Ray Ganthner, Senior Vice President, New Plants Deployment, AREVA NP Inc.

Alan Petersen, Vice President of Development, INGENCO

Craig Shealy, President and CEO, Osage Bio Energy

Dick Sheehy, Director of Advance Planning, CH2M Hill Consulting

Denny Sulick, General Manager, Virginia BioDiesel Refinery

David Stoner, Senior Vice President, Wind Power Americas-BP Alternative Energy, NA

Barry Weiss, Region Executive, GE Energy – Southern Region

Topics discussed included strategies for bringing renewable energy businesses to Virginia, as well as marketing plans to create more “green” jobs throughout the state.

For more information about ‘Renew Virginia,’ please visit http://www.governor.virginia.gov/RenewVirginia/

SPP CFO Bijan Kazemi, with Governor Kaine 12-11-08.

Solar Panels Plus is pleased to be a Gold Sponsor of the MDV-SEIA Conference “Solar Energy: Focus 2009” in Annapolis, Maryland starting on Friday, December 5^th, 2008.  The event is being recognized as the most important solar show of the year on the east coast and will bring together industry leaders, policy decision makers and members of the public to discuss the future of solar power in the Mid Atlantic region. As the Gold Sponsor, SPP will be hosting the Friday evening happy hour and welcomes all interested dealers to join us at this event.

On Saturday, December 6^th, 2008, SPP will be hosting a free workshop and training session to introduce some exciting new products and discuss business opportunities for the upcoming year.   

For more information about the MDV-SEIA conference, please visit the MDV-SEIA website.

SPP has recently become a distribution partner with Rheem Manufacturing Company and is now an authorized distributor of Rheem Water Heating products, including the Rheem line of Solaraide solar heat exchanger tanks.

Highly efficient and cost effective heat exchanger tanks are an integral component in residential and commercial solar water heating applications and we feel Rheem tanks provide the best overall value and have long history of building high-quality products.

The Rheem single coil heat exchange tanks come in 80 and 120 gallon capacity and both sizes come with a back-up 4500 watt electrical element. 

These tanks are in-stock and ready to be shipped.   For more information, please visit our web page about Rheem solar water heating tanks.