2007 winner
Open Energy Corp., Solana Beach, Calif., won NRCA's 2007 SpecRight Excellence
in Design Award competition for installing its roof system design for the Tahoe
Center for Environmental Sciences in Lake Tahoe, Nev. Open Energy installed a 31.5-kilowatt
photovoltaic roof system on the center using its building-integrated SolarSave®
roof tiles. The roof system is made of 900 SolarSave tiles and nine Open Energy
3,500-watt inverters with combiner boxes. The roof system will produce 4,400 kilowatt
hours per month for the building.