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National Solar Tour: Oct. 6

The American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour is Oct. 6, in conjunction with National Energy Awareness Month.

Photo credit: Ken Jones Photography

The American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour is Oct. 6, in conjunction with National Energy Awareness Month. More than 160,000 participants will visit some 5,500 buildings in 3,200 communities across the country. Buildings showcase solar thermal and solar PV installations. Click on the link above if you have a building you’d like to add to the tour, or you want to find a building in your area to tour.

If you’re thinking about adding solar thermal to your business, I would encourage you to attend a solar tour in your area. Many communities will showcase solar thermal applications as well as solar PV, and some buildings may have both solar technologies installed. It’s a great way to learn about the technology and its different applications.

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Kelly Faloon was a former editor of Plumbing & Mechanical as well as the BNP Media Plumbing Group’s Integrated Content Development Specialist. She also was a former editor of the Radiant Comfort Guide the Radiant & Hydronics Report — both official publications of the Radiant Professionals Alliance — and twice-monthly Radiant & Hydronics eNews, an enewsletter for anyone interested in the world of heating with hot water.

Her editorial specialties included women in plumbing, recruiting for the trades, green construction techniques, water conservation, water treatment, hydronic heating, radiant heating and cooling, snow melt, solar thermal and geothermal.

After a 3½-year stint at sister publication Supply House Times, Faloon joined the PM staff in December 2001 as senior editor. She was named PM’s managing editor in 2006 and editor in 2013.

Previously, she spent nearly 10 years at CCH, a publishing firm specializing in business and tax law, where she wore many hats — proofreader, writer/editor for a daily tax publication, and Internal Revenue Code editor.

A native of Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, Faloon is a 1986 journalism graduate of Michigan State University.