Category: Show Us Your Solar Project

Energy Raiser Provides Valuable Hands On Experience

Updated November 9th, 2010 – Work on the Terra Bella off-grid solar array has been completed and after meeting with the owner of Terra Bella farm, the system was commissioned on Sunday, November 7th by Kevin Allemann of Show Me Solar.  The photo on the right shows the finished solar closet and yes, the light [...]

Registration Now Open for the October 16th, Terra Bella Energy Raiser

September, 20th, ShowMeSolar.org – Once again, members of Show  Me Solar are banding together to help a fellow member go solar.  This time Show Me Solar will be installing a small off-grid solar electric array at Terra Bella farm near Hatton, Missouri and holding an Energy Raiser from 9am-5pm on Saturday, October 16th (IMPORTANT: Google [...]

Missouri Solar Tours make National News

September, 14th, St. Louis, Missouri – Once again, the Missouri Show Me Solar Tours have been selected from among hundreds of local events to be featured nationally.  With current events focused on troops returning home from Iraq, Show Me Solar and the Show Me Solar Tours in Columbia and St. Louis, Missouri have entered the [...]

A first look at the Neely Energy Raiser

Saturday, July 10th, Boone County, Missouri – Early last Saturday morning a group of ten Show Me Solar members began to gather at a home west of Ashland, Missouri.  Some were nearby neighbors and others came from as far away as St. Louis and Memphis to participate.  Their mission – to lend a hand to [...]

Presenting a Columbia Mo. home with solar power

Terra Nova’s Solar Electric System from KOMU News on Vimeo. Contributed by Paul Rofle, writer for KOMU 8 Goes Green Blog Claire Garden is a founding member of Terra Nova, a group of four people trying to live together as sustainably as possible. This solar array is just one way in which they are being [...]

Wednesday July 7th, 2010 in Missouri, Show Us Your Solar Project | 26 Comments »

Show Me Solar Member Walks the Talk

      Jim Jordan of Maplewood, Missouri not only talks the talk, he walks the walk.   A curator of education at the Saint Louis Zoo, Jim designed his 6 year old home with sustainability and universal access as the primary goals.  In acheiving a net zero lifestyle Jim emphasizes the importance of behavior choices in acheiving his goal.  Gardening is also [...]

Small Off-Grid Installation adds appeal to latest Show Me Solar Workshop

May 22nd, Auxvasse, Missouri Show Me Solar’s latest solar energy workshop in central Missouri took place at Terra Bella farms situated east of Columbia and north of Interstate I-70 between Hatton and  Auxvasse, Missouri.  New members participated in the Show Me Solar workshop while three experienced members – Kevin, Dan and Gary worked to install [...]

3.3kW Array Installed Near Ashland, Missouri

Around 12:30 pm last Friday afternoon, I took a phone call from a neighbor who asked “do you know Larry L. is installing a solar array this weekend?”.  One phone call later, I had introduced myself and Show Me Solar to Larry and three days and 32 Kaneka 60 Watt Thin Film Amorphous Silicon modules [...]

G2Power Technologies to install “The World’s Largest Solar Warm Air Collector Array”

Press Release January 21, 2010 For more information, contact: Daniel Poett Date: January 21, 2010 Release Date: Immediate St. Louis based G2Power Technologies to install what will be perhaps “The World’s Largest Solar Warm Air Collector Array” for the Missouri Department of Transportation St. Clair Facility.  St. Louis, MO based G2Power Technologies, llc, contracted by [...]

Thursday March 25th, 2010 in Missouri, Show Us Your Solar Project | 84 Comments »