A Riverside-based company will be the first city business to go solar. On Thursday, Monster Media, Inc., will begin using solar power at its Riverside headquarters.
This is the first non-residential solar project to be completed in Riverside. The system will supply 14.6 kilowatts of power, enough to significantly reduce the amount of power the company purchases as a customer of Riverside Public Utilities.
(Pictured: Derric Swinfard, on the roof of his building with Mike McLellan of Riverside Public Utilities.)
Monster Media, Inc., is a Riverside company known nationwide for creating art that is used to wrap vehicles for promotional purposes.
During the Riverside City Council campaign, Monster Media’s work was visible around town on Rusty Bailey’s mobile campaign office (pictured).
Monster Media, Inc. will receive $44,000 in rebates under a program designed to motivate local businesses to install solar power systems.
Another Riverside company, GAR Labs, is expected to install a massive solar power system this summer; to learn more, click here.
You can learn more about Monster Media, Inc. by clicking here.
You can also learn more about their business of wrapping vehicles by clicking here.
They also provided banners for local businesses, learn more by clicking here
– posted at 12:34 p.m. by Craig Fiegener
May 7th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
HeliPower is a leading solar power company in California. We are very pleased to work with such a passionate environmental leader like Derric. We installed his system both for his business, Monster Media and his residence. Here’s some facts on the system:
The Monster Media solar power system, which is a roof mounted installation, is made up of 96 Mitsubishi 185 solar photovoltaic modules and 2 SMA 7000 inverters. After final inspection, the system will be monitored online via a SMA web box monitoring system. This monitoring configuration will deliver system performance specifications to an online portal. The system will offset 2 tons a month of CO2.This equates to taking 5 cars off the road. Each car produces 12,000 lbs/year. It will produce 2500 kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy per month.