It's time for the 5th NATIONAL SOLAR HOMES TOUR!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
Free and open to all!

Come on out and enjoy the autumn colors in our beautiful Sequatchie Valley
while you learn all there is to know about making electricity from the Sun
at the Sequatchie Valley Institute!   You can also visit homes and
businesses in Chattanooga which are using solar energy.  Have you seen the
biggest solar array in the Southeast?  It's covering a parking lot at
Finley Stadium and is sponsored by TVA's new Green Power Switch program.
Stop in at Finley this Saturday, meet the people who designed the system,
and show your support for environmentally and politically correct energy
sources!  You can also drive on up I 24 to Sewanee and see two more
examples of ecologically designed solar powered homes.

The National Tour of Solar Homes is organized by the American Solar Energy
Society.  The local tour of Chattanooga, the Sequatchie Valley, and the
southern Cumberland Plateau is being sponsored
for the 5th year by the Sequatchie Valley Institute.  Many uses of solar
and other renewable technology will be demonstrated.

An exciting new aspect of solar energy, "net-metering," is now being
considered by TVA and our local electric companies.  In many other states,
consumers can install small renewable energy systems which connect to the
electric grid.  Under net metering, any extra electricity produced by the
renewable energy system can flow into the utility grid, spinning the
consumer's electric meter backwards!  This is a simple and inexpensive way
to encourage the use of renewable energy systems.  Benefits include an
inexhaustible supply of locally produced pollution-free electricity.

The tour is free and everyone is welcome.   The Sequatchie Valley Institute
will be open for tours and technical information.   Call 949-5922 or email
[log in to unmask], website svionline.org, for more locations and
directions to participating homes and businesses.

Directions to Homes on the Solar Homes Tour

In Chattanooga:

Prentice Hicks Studio.  Passive solar (heat and light).
Time:  10:00-4:00
Telephone:  423-821-1988; prenticehicks.com.  Address:  4313 Kelly's Ferry
Road.
Directions: Exit 174 from I-24.  North on Hwy 41. Go one mile, turn right
at Patrick's onto Kelly's Ferry Road, and take the last driveway on the
right.

Finley Stadium Solar Array.  Largest photovoltaic solar array in the
Southeast.
Time:  10:00-2:00
Location:   Finley Stadium south parking lot.  From MLK, turn south on
Chestnut to 20th Street.   You can park under the solar panels. A TVA
representative will be at the Stadium.  For more information, call Rita
Flippo at TVA, 751-8027.

Thomas Johnson Home. Passive solar architecture, hot-air collection system.
Time: 10-2:00 Telephone: 886-5874 home; 756 8838 work. Address: 105 South
Drive, Signal Mt., TN 37377 Directions: From Chattanooga, take 127 up
Signal Mt. Turn left on Signal Mt. Blvd. near the light, take next left
onto Mississippi, go to end of road and turn left on River Point Road, then
left on Brady Point. It is the 7th house on the right at the corner of
Brady Point and South Drive.

Big Frog Mountain Corporation.  Sales and installation of complete solar
electric residential type systems and energy-efficient appliances.   500
watt solar array portable solar generator qualifying for the Million Solar
Roofs Systems Database for homes.
Time: 10:00-4:00 Tel: 423 265-0307. Address: 100 Cherokee Blvd. Suite 321,
Chattanooga, TN 37405. www.BigFrogMountain.com. Display in front of parking
lot at Small Business Development Center, corner of Cherokee and
Manufacturer's Drive.


In Sequatchie Valley

Sequatchie Valley Institute at Moonshadow.   Off grid, photovoltaic
electricity, Sunfrost DC refrigerator, Prosine Inverter, Zomeworks Tracker,
Deka Solar Gel Cell Batteries, Southwest Wind Power wind charger, passive
solar, hand-crafted buildings of rock, logs and clay, greenhouse,
hydroelectric system in construction.
Time: 10-4:00 CST.  Telephone:  423-949-5922.  Address:  Rt. 1 Box 304
Whitwell, TN 37397.
Directions:  Take I-24 W.  from Chattanooga.  Take Exit #155 (Dunlap).
Turn right onto Hwy 28.  Go 18 miles from I-24 (you will go through
Whitwell) and watch for Cartwright Automotive on
the left.  Turn left just past this on Cartwright Loop.  Follow this road
for 0.7 mi. to a Solar Tour Sign.  Turn right and park.

Nona McIntyre Home.  Passive solar Mother Earth News design; earth bermed.
Time:  10-2:00 CST.  Telephone and Directions:  See Sequatchie Valley
Institute.

In Sewanee area

Sanford McGee Home. Photovoltaics, off grid; passive solar greenhouse/solar
space, ecological ly sustainable design.
Time:12:00-3:00 CST. Telephone: 931-598-0138. Address: 1499 Tate Rd,
Sewanee, TN. Jump0ff Community Land Trust.
E-mail  [log in to unmask] for directions

Carolyn Hoagland Home. Photovoltaic panels, batteries, inverter, straw bale
construction, rain water collection, non-chlorinated swimming pool,
constructed wetland for waste water. Time: 12:30-3:00 CST.  Address: 1423
Tate Trail, Sewanee, TN 37375 Telephone: 931-598-9010.
E-mail:  [log in to unmask]
Directions:  see website www.connectec.com/solar.htm