Solar Tour
The annual ASES National Solar Tour is the world's largest grassroots solar event. This event offers you the opportunity to tour innovative green homes and buildings to see how you can use solar energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainable technologies to reduce monthly utility bills and help tackle climate change. During the 2010 Tour, more than 160,000 participants visited over 5,500 buildings in 3,200 communities across the USA.
Now in its 16th year, this event is coordinated nationally by the nonprofit American Solar Energy Society in collaboration with dozens of partner organizations like Solar Washington throughout all 50 states. While the bulk of the 235 tours affiliated with the event occur annually during the first Saturday in October (in conjunction with National Energy Awareness Month), a few, like those in Alaska, occur earlier in the year to accommodate inclement weather and other factors. Here in our state, we have several tours occurring on different dates as well.
Click here to sign up or for more info about our 2011 Solar Tour & take a look at the unconventional ways people and proprietors are showcasing their solar stuff, cutting their energy costs – and creating a more sustainable energy future.
Then, whether you're a homeowner, landlord, business, public official or solar citizen, create a conversation; decide where you fit in.
Together, we can drive the momentum of the world's largest grassroots solar event and demonstrate that the benefits of solar energy and its energy-efficiency cousin have not only hit the mainstream, they're here to stay.
