Play for your chance to win a $25,000 SunPower solar energy system installation and much more!

This summer, SunPower is introducing the Solar Discovery Game, an interactive online trivia contest hosted on Facebook that promotes solar energy education and awareness in the U.S. By playing, you can win the grand prize of a complete SunPower solar energy system worth up to $25,000, and will be entered to win more than 60 featured prizes, including plane tickets, video cameras, gift cards, event tickets, SunPower gear, and much more! As the grand prize winner, you can win the SunPower solar installation for your home, add to your existing system, or gift it to your family, friends, neighbor or a local community building, such as a school or recreation center. 

Playing the game is simple. Just visit the Solar Discovery Game on Facebook and answer trivia questions to earn panels (or points) towards the grand prize. You’ll earn “virtual badges” for unlocking achievements along the way and can share your progress with your friends. Each week, we’ll add new questions to answer and new prizes to win.

We’ve collaborated with some of our partners to bring a variety of prizes and contest questions. These partners include the Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®), Del Monte Foods, eBay Green Team, Hawaiian Airlines, Jersey Gardens, California Academy of Sciences and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).

With the Solar Discovery Game, we hope to inspire our growing social media community to discover more about emission-free solar power, and share that knowledge virally with friends and family. We’re also looking for you to get involved and tell us what questions you’d like to see in the game. Submit your questions below and we might include them in the Solar Discovery Game!

The contest will run throughout the summer, from June 21^st to September 14^th. We will annouce the winner on September 16^th. Spread the word about solar and ask your friends and family to test their solar skills with the Solar Discovery Game! The sooner you begin playing, the sooner you’ll begin racking up panels towards the Grand Prize. Play now!

The Solar Discovery Game is sponsored by SunPower Corp. and available to legal residents in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.  The promotion starts on June 21 and continues through September 14.  Employees, directors and officers of SunPower Corporation, and any of their respective affiliates, parents, subsidiary companies, and advertising and promotion agencies and members of the immediate families and/or those living in the same household of any of the foregoing are not eligible.  Visit Official Rules to learn more detail about Solar Discovery Contest.

On May 25^th, 2011, San Francisco Interim Mayor Edwin Lee and Supervisor David Chiu joined One Atmosphere, Luminalt and SunPower to dedicate a 28-kilowatt AC SunPower solar rooftop system at Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center in San Francisco. With collective efforts from artists, businesses, environmentalists, government workers and more than 100 community volunteers, the new 28 kWh AC SunPower system provides a great example of how government, local business, artists, and the community can come together to accomplish something truly meaningful.

This solar installation will not only reduce Tel-Hi Neighborhood Center’s energy consumption by more than 85% but also offer the opportunity to educate children and others on the benefits of solar energy through an interpretive greenhouse.

Check out the interview below with Nestor Fernandez, the Executive Director of Tel-Hi Neighborhood Center, to find out why he believes this green initiative is a big step for the entire community.

If you’d like to receive latest solar PV technology updates, please join the discussion on our Facebook community or follow us on Twitter (@SunPower).

 

Here’s the challenge: How can a trek of modern-day explorers use clean energy to power a snowmobile trek across Antarctica? For the Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) of South Korea, who is spearheading this historic journey, the solution is using SunPower’s leading high efficiency panels:

SBS is funding the cross-continental adventure and plans to air a special documentary about the journey in May 2011 to coincide with the network’s 21st anniversary. The team of explorers is aiming to reach the South Pole, but they’re also looking to raise the issue of environmental awareness. To that end, SBS partnered with SunPower for portable solar charging stations that will power the group’s snowmobiles and additional camp equipment.

Below is a map detailing the group itinerary. The explorers disembarked from Patriot Hills station and are trekking towards the South Pole. On Day 23, they’re halfway to their destination, having completed 562 km of the 1,076 km journey. The team has faced a harrowing blizzard and other extreme weather.

You can get updates on the remainder of the SBS journey over the following weeks by liking SunPower on Facebook and following SunPower on Twitter. If you’re interested in more information please visit the Korean-language Facebook and Twitter pages maintained by the trek sponsors.

The Antarctica journey represents a great way to spread the word about solar. What other solar-powered adventures you’d like to see?