Sunetric Illuminates Honolulu City Lights With First-Ever Entirely Solar-Powered Display

Kailua, HI – Nov. 23, 2011 – Sunetric (sunetric.com), Hawaii’s leading solar design and installation company, is making sure Santa’s elves can spread holiday cheer this season without having to burn the midnight oil.

Sunetric will help illuminate the first-ever entirely solar-powered display for the 2011 annual Honolulu City Lights celebration from Dec. 3–31 at Honolulu Hale. “Santa Goes Solar” includes an 8-foot diorama of Santa’s eco-conscious workshop and village — made entirely out of Lego — in the Blue Planet Foundation’s 100-square-foot display. The Christmas trees adorning the display will be lit with an array of high-tech LED lights engineered by members of UH’s Solar Decathlon Team Hawaii and decorated with recycled incandescent bulb ornaments made by students from schools island-wide. The entire display will be powered by a state-of-the-art solar photovoltaic canopy that will be designed and built by Sunetric.

The display will be constructed by members of the Lego Enthusiasts Association of Hawaii with members of the University of Hawaii Solar Decathlon Team Hawaii engineering its array of high- tech LED lights. To power those lights, the solar canopy will produce 3.6 kWh a day, with an on- site battery pack storing up to 6.9 kWh to ensure night-time cheer.

“We are excited to work with the Blue Planet Foundation and showcase some of Sunetric’s most innovative technologies to reduce the carbon footprint for this dazzling display,” said Alex Tiller, chief executive officer of Sunetric. “It’s an honor to put the green in the green and red at Santa’s village this holiday season, and highlight the importance of renewable energy in Hawaii.”

Sunetric’s donation includes hours of engineering, design and construction work, as well as more than $5,000 in materials.