The U.S. military has taken a strong lead in the use and development of alternative energy including solar energy. On Thursday, July 19th at 12:00 pm EDT, Principle Solar Institute is hosting a free webinar: Solar in the Military. The focus is on the Department of Defenses’s (DOD) strategic vision for solar energy and its goal for implementation. Pew Charitable Trusts says that DOD clean energy investments increased nearly 300 percent between 2006 and 2009.

The webinar will feature two speakers:

• Rebecca “Becky” Halstead, Brigadier General (retired), an advisor to Principal Solar, Inc. and recent co-author of the white paper “Navigating by the Sun: U.S. Department of Defense Takes Aggressive Lead as Early Adopters of Solar Energy,“.
• Retired Col. R. David McNeil, founder and president of Hannah Solar Government Services LLC.