Gather your neighbors for a free dinner workshop to learn about the benefits of solar water heating technology and available rebates through the California Solar Initiative – Thermal Program. This workshop is led by industry experts and can help you decide if a solar water heating system is right for your home.
Continue reading Solar Water Heating Basics for Homeowners Wednesday, June 19
Comments closedFor contractors and self-installers who want to assure their installations meet the CSI inspection protocol. This includes parameters and points of protocol that are verified at the time of inspection, as well as the handbook requirements.
Continue reading CSI Inspection Protocol: How to Pass Tuesday, June 18
Comments closedStop by to meet the Jones family and tour their energy-efficient home! After participating in Energy Upgrade California, they are now enjoying a more comfortable house throughout.
Continue reading Spring Valley – Energy-Efficient Home Tour Saturday, June 15
Comments closedThis second workshop in the two-part series, customized for homeowners looking to go solar, will provide the details of purchasing a solar electric system. After learning the fundamentals of solar in Solar for Homeowners 1, this workshop will provide the resources and information necessary for a homeowner to confidently enter into negotiations with solar contractors.
Continue reading Solar for Homeowners 2 – Be a Smart Solar Customer Thursday, June 13
Comments closedHear about efforts to promote cleaner goods movement in the region and learn about incentives from the Goods Movement Emissions Reduction Program to upgrade heavy-duty diesel trucks.
Continue reading Clean Goods Movement in the San Diego Region Tuesday, June 11
Comments closedJoin the California Center for Sustainable Energy and SF Environment to learn everything you need to know about life with a plug-in electric vehicle. After the presentations, experience some of the newest plug-in electric vehicles hitting the road in 2013!
Continue reading San Francisco – The Future is Electric Saturday, June 8
Comments closedThe San Diego Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) Alliance has been awarded $3,500 from San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) as part of their Energy Solutions Partners Network. The partnership entails providing important energy-savings messages as well as to help promote solutions – programs, services and tools – to some of the county’s most diverse, and often times, hard to reach households and businesses.
Comments closedArmed with only cardboard, sealant and duck tape, middle school students throughout the Imperial Valley managed to construct boats fit for two students for the MESA Cardboard Boat Competition.
The inaugural event saw a total of 33 boats from eight different Mathematics Science Engineering Advancement middle school programs test the water and the wind at the Central Union High School pool here Thursday.
Continue reading Middle school students use math, science knowledge to build cardboard boats
Comments closedSDG&E recently hosted a celebration lunch recognizing dozens of Workforce Education & Training partners involved with the grant program A Green Future Project. SDG&E awarded Green Future grants to several organizations over the past several months. The grant program aimed to provide funding for green job training and education to organizations supporting K-12 schools, trade schools, colleges/universities, underserved communities, veterans, minority and low-income groups.
SDG&E received 60 responses to the RFP solicitation that was sent out, and 24 proposals were approved representing more than $500,000 in awards.
“SDG&E is proud to collaborate with and support our Workforce Education & Training partners and help make our sustainable future a little greener,” said Caroline Winn, SDG&E’s vice president of customer services.
Comments closedThe MESA Calculator Olympics and Robotics Challenge was held this weekend at City College with teams of MESA students from City College, Southwestern, SDSU, and high schools from San Diego and Imperial Valley. The Challenge included an academic competition across 3 levels (Calculator Olympics) and a robotics competition.
MESA industry advisors volunteered as event judges. Volunteers included Maria Charles (Pratt & Whitney and City College MESA alumna), Brianna Lutes (IEC Corporation and SDSU MESA alumna) and Alan Philpott (SPAWAR).
In addition, a “prosthetic arm” research presentation was given by SDSU and Southwestern College students from the SDSU Engineering Research Center, and a prosthetic arm poster board presentation and demonstration was given by MESA San Diego pre-college students, who participated in the prosthetic arm challenge in the Statewide MESA Days student competition.
Continue reading 20th Annual Olympics & Robotics Competition
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