Households vie for free solor water heaters

Ten Hawaiian households will soon receive free solar water heating systems through a new program created by the Honolulu-based Blue Planet Foundation and Suntech Hawaii.

The soon-to-be systems owners will be selected from a list of those who sign up to be a “friend” of Blue Planet by Dec. 20 at www.blueplanetfoundation.org and the winners will be announced Dec. 22. The installations will take place in early 2009. The solar giveaway is one in a series of programs Blue Planet Foundation will be rolling out over the next year to decrease household energy use in Hawaii.

“Blue Planet Foundation approached us to discuss the best way to help ten families go solar as a holiday gift, and we knew a good idea when we heard it,” says Mark Duda, Suntech Hawaii’s vice president of finance. “By not only doing the system design and installation, but also making a contribution ourselves, Suntech Hawaii is able to drive the system cost down to zero for those 10 families.”

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