By Daily Press staff
A Santa Monica couple will give free tours of their rooftop solar energy system on Saturday as part of the “Eighth Annual National Solar Tour,” sponsored by the American Solar Energy Society. Paul Scott and Zan Dubin Scott will open their home between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. to show visitors their 1.8 kilowatt photovoltaic system, which generates roughly 95 percent of their electricity needs.
“We’ve slashed our household electric utility costs to almost nothing this year,” said Paul Scott, “and we feel even more gratified about no longer contributing to global warming, which is getting worse by the moment.”
The National Solar Tour will include some 1,200 homes, businesses and public buildings in hundreds of communities across the country. As many as 30,000 visitors are expected this year.
For the Scotts’ address, call (310) 399-5997. For more information and other Los Angeles tour participants, go to www.ases.org, the Web site for ASES, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing solar energy use.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 30, 2003. Read the original PDF.