Contact:    Stuart Doyle
                            (407) 956-5689
 sdoyle@eflorida.com

Solar market trends, new developments topic of Nov. 12 webinar

 ORLANDO, FL (November 4, 2009) – Trends and innovations in the solar market and future possibilities will be the focus of a live, free webinar called on Thursday, November 12 from 1 – 2 p.m. ET.

To be presented by Enterprise Florida and Greentech Media, a Cambridge, Mass.-based online media company focusing on green technology news and analysis, “New Ideas in Solar” also will highlight Florida’s innovations in clean energy including:

 Emerging solar technology research areas in academia
 Effects of university-developer partnerships on new utility-scale solar technologies
 Lessons learned by a first-mover in the solar feed-in tariff market.

Registration is available at www.eflorida.com/solarwebinar.  Participation is open to the general public, with targeted audiences including energy entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and business and government leaders. 

• Dr. Tim Anderson, director, Florida Energy Systems Consortium:  Solar research in progress at the consortium
• Robert E. Hunzinger, general manager, Gainesville Regional Utilities:  The impact of the nation’s first solar feed-in tariff
• Shayle Kann, energy analyst, GTM Research:  An update of the U.S. solar market
• Jim Lentz, president, Harmony Development Company:  The company’s partnership with Florida State University developing a unique combined solar/biomass plant.
 
“New Ideas in Solar” marks the launch of an Enterprise Florida campaign to promote Florida’s clean energy cluster and organizations statewide that are building it. 

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Enterprise Florida, Inc. is a partnership between Florida's business and government leaders and is the principal economic development organization for the state of Florida.  Headquartered in Orlando, EFI’s mission is to diversify Florida’s economy and create better-paying jobs for its citizens by supporting, attracting and helping to create businesses in innovative, high-growth industries.  In pursuit of its mission, EFI works closely with a statewide network of economic development partners and is funded both by the State of Florida and by private-sector businesses.

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