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www.solardave.com SolarDave: What manufacturer do you like to use for solar panels and why? Tony Boniface: We prefer SunPower because for a couple of reasons, one is their efficiency – they are the most efficient panel, also they are all black with also lends for a nice aesthetic attribute. Black seems to blend in to the houses the best, we found they kind of disappear. Those are the two main reason, but SunPower has made a big effort to counter where the industry has been fits and starts they force dealers to traditionally forced to inventory panels, SunPower is all about just-in-time delivery. So it makes a difference from a cash flow point. For a small business that can be critical. They are (SunPower) are very interested in growing their market share and they realize the one way to do that is to make our market share grow – they understand and cater to the small business both from an inventory stand point and a marketing materials stand point and sales department and training. So they do a really good job of assisting there dealers where ever possible. SolarDave: What other panels do you like to use? Tony Boniface: By request of on occasion if we can’t get what we need from SunPower we for a particular project we may fall to EverGreen or Kyocera for instance – both good makers, EverGreen has the advantage of they are an American company. Kyocera in my opinion has been in the industry the longest and has stayed the course. They are also a materials company they make …

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Corvallis High School’s video submission for Wal-Mart’s Earth Day Every Day Challenge. Students have set a goal of installing a 100 kW solar electric array on our building. Through this video, we got the most votes, and WON the 000 Grand Prize! Visit www.earthdayeverydaychallenge.com for info on the Grant. For more info on our solar project and more, and how YOU CAN HELP continue our efforts, visit www.GreenCHS.com Produced and Edited by: Evan Evan Gütt & Chris Becker [CHS Class of '09] Original Music by: Evan Graff, guitar & Michael Grant, piano www.GreenCHS.com

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www.solardave.com SolarDave: Does Akeena Solar Get Their Solar Panels at a Discount price for buying them in volume? Eric Bowman: There are a lot of things that solar panel costs, volume, quality, there are a lot of components to it, we are the only solar intergrator that has developed our own propiritory panel so we outsource the manufacturing of that to SunTech which at the end of this year will be the largest manufacturer in the world. They only make the Andalay solar panel for Akeena and Akeena only. It is our patent and our panel noboby can source the panel or install in the panel in the United States. Because we are a very large solar intergator, one of the largest and we are publicly held and we are on the NASDAQ:AKNS because we only sell that one type of panel for that residentail application our volume is not like a Sharp or a BP that might sell to multiple brokers across the United States. But we are extremely competitive when it comes to cost and value proposition, realiablity, aestecis and cost. Our clients get a win all the time. Here is a small mock up of the Andalay panel the biggest difference you are going to see between the Andalay panel and any other panel in the past 30 years including everything that is being installed today, a traditional panel has aluminum racking and a non structural panel that sits on top of that, the wires are connected together and there is a perimeter ground system around that has to go around. So what we have done for our …