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Solutions
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Renewable Energy Education for a Sustainable Future
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EQUIPMENT DONORS Vacations Linda Lung Hank Statscewich
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Fred Gatewood Dan Dahlke Markey Industries William Sullivan Solar Energy International (SEI) was founded in 1991 as a non-profit educational organization to
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Education Program
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Mountain View Wind from all 50 states and 67
Multi Contact (Shoals Tech Group) Power Design Scott Mowry Thomas Wright • Native American Program
OutBack Power Solar-Wise, LLC. Enoh Enoh Henry Kanjobe David Zachow countries have attended SEI's
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Stark Roofing Robert E. Foster Tei Narteh • In 2008 SEI offered 52 hands-
Co.
Jeremy & Angela Foster Dave Nelson • Scholarship Program
Steca
Sunsense
Vegas Electric
Patricia Franklin NexuSolar
ALL OF OUR on workshops and twelve
Webb Solar Realty, LLC
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recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt
Xantrex
MEMBERS
Gardner Bradford LLP
Michael Jason Garsee
James Odell
Michael O'Hara
SUPPORTERS workshops and online courses
charitable organization under section 501(c)3 in 2008, including 139
SCHOLARSHIP DONORS A($100 - $249) Nader Geleil Richard Ottero 621 Members < $100
& M Custom Marketing Get Wired Rick Otto of the Internal Revenue Code. international students.
Kris Sutton & Kathy Swartz
Community Office of Resource & Promotional George Gill Outback Power Systems
Efficiency Leo Acosta Max Girouard Curtis Paton
Lisa Adolphe David Glover Dan Perata
USDA

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Staff
Rachel Connor
Kathy Fontaine
Samantha Pickard
Sandy Pickard
Renewable Energy Education Program Financial Report Summary 2008
Paul Gibb Cindy Smith
Dan Giese Laurie Stone I NCOME E XPENSES
Matthew Harris Kris Sutton
SEI's Renewable Energy Education Program (REEP) teaches the
Cindy Hotchkiss Kathy Swartz practical use of solar, wind and water power. Our workshops give 75% 77%
Soozie Lindbloom Jeff Tobe
Kevin Lundy Laura Walters individuals the knowledge and skills to design, install and maintain
Brian Mehalic Carol Weis renewable energy systems and to build state-of-the-art natural homes that
Khanti Munro Johnny Weiss
Dawn Ogren Breccia Wilson are efficient, practical and earth-friendly.
Tawnya Parker
INCOME EXPENSES
8% 4%
Board of Directors
Jeff Dickinson 2008 REEP Workshops 5%
EARNED INCOME
7%
Energy and Sustainable Design 4% 5%
• Advanced Photovoltaics • PV Lab Week 3% 6% 3% Workshops $1,814,819 $1,724,078
Jock Jacober 2%
Jacober Brothers Construction • Advanced PV Online • RE for the Developing World Contract Teaching $ 220,665 $ 90,513
Jane Koger • Appropriate Technology for the • RE for the DW - Hands-On Sales & Books $ 180,006 $ 101,852
Homestead Ranch Developing World • Renewable Energy for Educators INCOME GROWTH 2003 - 2008
Linda Lung • Biodiesel Fuel • Residential Wind Power $2,452,173 CONTRIBUTED INCOME
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Building for the Future • Solar & Radiant Heating Systems Memberships $ 85,383 $ 57,420
Don Phillipson
Phillipson Sustainable Energy Options • Building for the Future Online • Solar Hot Water $2,000,000 $1,855,235
Development $ 103,413 $ 108,609
Johnny Weiss
• Designing & Building Natural Homes • Solar Industry Seminar
Solar Energy International • Ecology, Permaculture & RE Admin & Overhead $ 47,887 $ 125,156
• Solar Water Pumping $1,290,077
Advisory Council • Grid-Tied PV • Straw Bale Construction & Natural Total $2,452,173 $2,207,628
Dr. Donald W. Aitken $895,798
Donald Aitken Associates • Introduction to Renewable Energy Plaster $1,000,000
$719,264
• Micro-Hydro Power • Successful Solar Businesses
Dr. J. Douglas Balcomb $661,257
National Renewable Energy Lab • PV Design & Installation • Women’s PV Design & Installation
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
David Barsamian • PV Design Online
Alternative Radio
Pliny Fisk III SEI's Hands-on Training
Center for Max. Potential Bldg Systems MEMBERSHIP GROWTH 2005 - 2008
Alex Hillinger Alumni of SEI's 2008 REEP Program gained hands-on experience in
0
ASSETS
Good Chemistry $80,000 0

installations and lab exercises. REEP projects represent practical applications of Cash & Current Assets $533,271
0

Joe Jordan the latest commercial technologies and products in PV, wind, solar thermal, Fixed Assets (including $470,088
NASA micro-hydro, and sustainable building. $60,000 0

land, building, equip.)

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Barbara Kerr Endowment $391,567
Center for Sustainable Living
Guest Instructors & Industry Representatives $40,000 0

Thomas A. Lawand 0 Total Assets $1,394,926

Brace Research Institute SEI instructors are leaders in their fields, offering the most up-to-date
$20,000 0

information in renewable energy technologies. In 2008, over 100 guest instructors

Philip Livingston
Solar Consultant and industry representatives presented in our workshops.
0 LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS
$0 0

Amory Lovins 2005 2006 2006 2007 2008 Current Liabilities $ 29,511
Rocky Mountain Institute Workshops Were Offered in 20 Locations TUITION GROWTH 2004 - 2008 Deferred Tuition $441,356
Maureen McIntyre 3,000
3000 $1,800,000 Land Mortgage $213,721
Consultant • Austin, Texas • Mastatal, Costa Rica Net Assets $710,438
• Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador • Olivebridge, New York 2,500
2500
Karen & Richard Perez $1,600,000
Home Power Magazine • Carbondale, Colorado • Paonia, Colorado Total Liabilities $1,394,926

tuition income
2,000
2000
& Net Assets
Randy Udall
Community Office of Resource Efficiency
• Chiapas, Mexico • Pittsboro, North Carolina # of students $1,200,000
• Dúrika, Costa Rica • Salt Lake City, Utah 1,500
1500

Sam Vanderhoof
Clean Power Associates • East Charleston, Vermont • San Diego, California 1,000
$800,000
1000

Neville Williams
• Fontana, California • Sandy Hook, New Jersey
$400,000 # of students
Standard Solar Inc. • Fort Collins, Colorado • Guemes Isl., Washington 500
500

Dr. Robert Wills • Honolulu, Hawaii • Totogalpa, Nicaragua tuition income

Intergrid 0
• Manteca, California • Tucson, Arizona 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
SEI 2008 Outreach Programs SEI 2008 Outreach Programs
SEI provided training and technical assistance to groups worldwide. SEI provided volunteer training and technical assistance to groups worldwide.
Scholarship Program INVEST Program
Traveling to the United States has become increasingly hard for our international students, due to visa requirements and SEI offers alumni an opportunity to participate in INVEST, International Volunteers in
the cost of travel. We try to offset these costs for eligible developing country residents by offering tuition scholarships. People Environmentally Sustainable Technologies. SEI alumni apply to volunteer overseas with one
from over 60 countries have attended SEI workshops, many thanks to scholarships supported by our members. SEI also offers of our partner organizations to help bring renewable energy technologies to communities in
partial tuition scholarships to low-income participants from the United States and other industrialized nations. the developing world. Volunteers install PV systems on rural health centers, teach rural
farmers about solar water pumping, install micro-hydro and wind systems to power rural
Cat working on Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" PV
In 2008 SEI offered 77 full and partial scholarships. communities, or help build sustainable houses -- while meeting new people and experiencing
project in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. ►
new cultures.
In 2008 two INVEST volunteers worked with Grupo Fenix in
“Soon after the SEI Women’s PV workshop, one of the really great opportunities I had was installing Nicaragua. Grupo Fenix researches, develops and applies
5kW solar arrays for Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" Project for redevelopment in the Lower 9th Ward appropriate, renewable energy technologies in Nicaragua.
of New Orleans, devastated by Hurricane Katrina. I was also invited by Global Green of NOLA to
teach a Women's Introductory Solar Workshop. Thanks to SEI scholarships I could attend their An INVEST volunteer tests a Nicaraguan made PV module with a Grupo Fenix technician ►
wonderful Basic and Advanced PV training. It would not have been possible without that help.”
- Cat, SEI women’s scholarship recipient, 2008
SEI EcoCampus Solar In the Schools
SEI is now officially a sun, wind & water powered organization. SEI’s Solar In the Schools Program (SIS) targets grades K-12 and
In 2008 the Solar Hot Water class installed a single collector The Micro-hydro workshop installed a low head, high flow focuses on experiential learning. The goal is to have students understand
solar thermal system which supplies hot water to our student micro-hydro system in a creek that runs through the SEI energy as it relates to all living things on the planet. SIS emphasizes
& staff kitchen area. In addition, we installed a PV powered property. This system charges the batteries on a DC water critical thinking skills by exploring energy choices, costs, and solutions
DC refrigerator. pumping system which does all the watering in our gardens within individual communities. In the 2007-2008 school year, SEI
on the property. All of this combined with the2 kW wind presented in 18 schools throughout Colorado, teaching renewable
The solar demonstrations at the SEI campus also include the generator installed in the 2007 SEI Wind workshop allows energy to over 2400 students.
three real world PV systems that our classes use in trainings - the SEI ecocampus to generate enough renewably generated
grid-tie, grid-tie with battery backup, and a stand-alone electicity to offset our usage, although we still have a very In 2008 SEI held our second annual Renewable Energy for
system, as well as a developing world PV LED lighting substantial propane bill for heating. Educators workshop in which 22 teachers from around the
system, a solar hot air system, solar water pumping system, country and four international participants gained the
and many solar cookers. confidence and knowledge needed to teach renewable energy.

►
School children show off the solar powered fans
they made in the SEI SIS training.

International & Native American Trainings

SEI responds to in-country opportunities and travels around the world
training people in renewable energy technologies. The trainings include
decision-makers, technicans, and end-users. Our hands-on approach helps
people incorporate these technologies into sustainable development projects.

SEI teamed up with Engineers without Borders and SunEnergy Power

International to to provide a week-long hands-on solar photovoltaics training
for engineers in the West Bank, Palestine. The class included 11 engineers
from several cities throughout the West Bank. Two engineers from Gaza
joined the first day of training by way of video camera linkup. The training
included basic design and maintenance, and applications to real-life
examples in Palestine.

PV training in Palestine with SEI instructor Walt Ratterman ►

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A look at 2008 in photos

Teachers in
the RE for adobe
Educators blocks in the
workshop Designing &
showing Building
off their Natural
solar Homes
power. workshop
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The PV
Design &
Installation
workshop
on Guemes
Island,
Washington
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Plastering a
wall in the Wiring the
Strawbale power
Construction center in the
and Natural PV Lab
Plaster Week
workshop workshop
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Installing PV Installing a
modules in PV system
the Women’s in the
Renewable Wiring up the
PV Design & control center
Installation Energy for
the for the PV
workshop system in
Developing
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World Ecuador in the

workshop Ecology,
in Permaculture
Nicaragua and RE
► Workshop
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Preparing to
raise the wind
tower in the
Residential
Wind Power
workshop
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