| Many thanks to sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, and organizers for the success of the Renewable Energy Workshop & Expo held at the New Troy Community Center on March 14th. |  |
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A crowd estimated at over 300 heard speakers, saw exhibits, watched videos, and learned a lot. There were presentations on Photovoltaics, Solar Water Heating, Geothermal Heating & Cooling, Getting off the Grid, Energy Conservation, Small Wind Systems for Homeowners, and Solar Heating. Exhibitors showed products ranging from books and bamboo furniture to property energy assessment to reclaimed wood products to hybrid cars to biofuels to solar heating and hot water systems. |
| Tune in to WRHC, Radio Harbor Country (106.7FM), as John Smietanka talks with Mike Linsea of Solar Winds Power Systems, LLC, Dan Alway, Renewable Energy Engineer, and Steve VanderWerf of Geothermal Specialist, Inc. on March 22nd and 26th and John Patten, Professor at Western Michigan University and Kenneth Pethers of Sunsiary on March 29th and April 2nd |  |
