Solar Hot Water Market Expansion Workshop

In January 2007, the Department of Energy sponsored the Solar Hot Water Market Expansion Workshop to determine the status of the solar water heating industry.

More details about the workshop, including action items and presentations, are available through the links below. Many of the documents are provided as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Download Adobe Reader.

Workshop Materials

Attendee List (PDF 44 KB)
Action Items
- Action Item Notes (MS Word 80 KB)
- Market Expansion Action Plans - Plan 1 (PDF 199 KB) Plan 2 (MS Word 76 KB)
- Executive Order – California (PDF 119 KB)
- Senate Bill 82 (PDF 65 KB)
- Administrative Directive – Hawaii (PDF 962 KB)
- Life-cycle Spreadsheet (Excel 23 KB)
- Life-cycle Costs Info Sheet (PDF 206 KB)
- Solar Hot Water Specifications (PDF 181 KB)
Policy Maps (PDF 305 KB)
State-by-State Incentives (Draft) (MS Word 363 KB)
Presentations (20 total)
- Solar Energy Industries Association (PDF 182 KB)
- Success Stories from Europe (PDF 670 KB)
- Germany (PDF 420 KB)
- France (PDF 2 MB)
- United Kingdom (PDF 593 KB)
- Hawaiian Electric Company (PDF 675 KB)
- State Activities – IREC (PDF 532 KB)
- U.S. Department of Energy Market Expansion – IREC (PDF 152 KB)
- San Diego Regional Energy Office (PDF 75 KB)
- Wisconsin's Market (PDF 1.4 MB)
- Ann Arbor, Michigan (PDF 3.9 MB)
- U.S. Department of Energy – State of the Industry (PDF 507 KB)
- Wrap Up (PDF 95 KB)
- Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (PDF 408 KB)
- Utility Solar Thermal Initiative (PDF 927 KB)
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure (PDF 95 KB)
- Northwestern United States (PDF 1.2 MB)
- KeySpan Corporation (PDF 324 KB)
- Hawaiian Electric Company (PDF 683 KB)
- Green Tags & Certificates (PDF 230 KB)