To evolve mainstream deployment of 200-3000 watt peak photovoltaic systems as an educational and functional investment for the mainstream public. The market focus is on family educational activities and youth. Photovoltaics reduced in price from $500 watt peak in 1972 to less than $5 watt peak in 1990, yet production has only increased to less than 0.6% of US energy consumption. This program will accomplish the following goals:

• increase mainstream use of building-integrated photovoltaic (BI-PV) products
• facilitate consumer familiarity with BI-PV solar electric building materials
• provide access to & understanding of numerous photovoltaic-related products
• increase industry production for photovoltaic products
• accelerate reduction in price of BI-PV modules and products
• create broad-based consumer-tested, and self-financed photovoltaic demonstration
• develop photovoltaic literacy in the public and especially youth whose industry it is
• evolve knowledgeable consumers for major BI-PV investments in office & homes
• create training program for installation of BI-PV products & grid-connect li>100,000 gazebo and storage units will produce over 30 MWp BI-PV surface producing 90 to 180 MWh sustainable energy per day.

We find the BI-PV industry is developing at a very slow rate considering the simplicity of the technology in comparison with other semiconductor industries like computer electronics and the advancement predicted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory [1978 Emphasis Added]. We seek to expand awareness of the potential benefit BI-PV provides to humanity and the environment within industrialized nations as well as developing nations through its role as an evolving sustainable energy and dual-purpose solar electric building material.

1. Primary problem sited as a hindrance to increased consumer use is cost of module production
2. In my paper published for the World Renewable Energy Congress IV in June 1996 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Denver, Colorado; I outlined an international competition for the United States - European Commission - Japan to build 100 Headrick Solar-Voltaic Dome™ Power Stations By 2000 as a market deployment tool
3. Several financing tools were suggested in my paper to increase BI-PV production levels:
   • Solar Bonds
   • land development bonds
   • Solar Bond Stamp Program -educational youth savings bond program for BI-PV Development Foundation similar to War Bonds and US Savings Bond programs of the past
4. My comments to the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Renewable Energy Business Development/Finance Workshop emphasize a need for a comprehensive BI-PV industry and marketplace vision
5. Deployment strategies for grid-connected BI-PV may be furthered through the benefits and resources of industrialized nations where we may produce, utilize and refine sustainable technology more quickly and on a grandeur scale
6. Mainstream deployment of BI-PV in the United States construction industry provides timely understanding of the technology needed to responsibly facilitate BI-PV deployment on a large-scale in the virgin energy markets of Third World Nations
7. The United States may thereby set an example as a responsible world leader and reduce influences imposing outdated depletable energy resources in Third World Countries and our domestic marketplace that pollute and increase global hazards including envrionmental degradation, nuclear waste and greenhouse warming
8. An article Solar Energy: Coming of Age, At Last? in the February 26, 1996 newsletter of the Board of State Legislatures explains the paradox of the situation most succinctly, and I quote: "The Utility PhotoVoltaic Group estimates that if the cost of a complete photovoltaic system fell to $3 per peak watt, a viable market--approximately 9,000 megawatts-- would develop."

We are wisely serving the waiting market sustainable energy, today.

Consider an energy pie chart entitled Primary Energy Used for Electricity Generation 1975 and 1994. This graph appears on page forty-two of the United States Energy Plan July 1995 entitled: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STRATEGY Clean and Secure Energy for a Competitive Economy. This pie chart indicates the other category of energy production and consumption has only increased from 0.5% (0.1 of 20.4 Quads) in 1975 to 0.6% (0.2 of 30.9 Quads) in 1994. We see that coal consumption in the United States doubled during the past twenty years from 8.8 of 20.4 Quads to 16.9 of 30.9 Quads. We must remember photovoltaics is only one line in the 'other' category of energy consumption for the United States. This chart indicates that the coal provided 55% of the energy consumed by the United States in 1994. The cost of coal, nuclear, hydro and photovoltaics cannot responsibly be compared unless we clearly consider production levels of each technology, their externality expenses/benefits and their secondary purpose such as replacement costs for building materials. Even with less than 0.1% of the US market, BI-PV is less than 20 cents kWh. The Architect's Portable Handbook compiled by Pat Guthrie, Architect and published in 1995 by McGraw-Hill on page 245 indicates a traditional standing seam roof is $500 square or approximately $50 SF. United Solar Systems, Inc. has a new fully-integrated Standing Seam solar electric roofing material for the same price that creates around 6 Watts per SF peak. In San Diego - Los Angeles area with six direct sun hours a day the roof creates around 36 Watt hours of electricity per square foot over 300 days a year.

When BI-PV becomes even 1% of the United States electricity consumption industry it will be equal to or less in price than all other known and commercialized energy resources. When it becomes 10% of the United States electricity industry, it will be the most inexpensive, clean, easy to use, quiet, non-polluting and sustainable energy resource in existence - unless someone comes up with a better idea.                                                                     

PV for your TV™ Healthfood For Our Electronic PetsTM is an educational taster's choice approach to bring BI-PV out of the science laboratory and into the consumer laboratory where it may flourish and develop. Through small-scale projects with low-interest loans based on a five to twenty year energy consumption scheme most everyone can afford to try. This project will achieve important public education goals with colorful educational brochures graphically describing energy history and monitors to let you know each day when you come home how much PV your system has made for your TV. The primary market focus is a 200-300 watt system because it creates about the same amount of energy in an hour that most televisions use in an hour. It is a good taster's choice tool to educate people about the phenomena, science and economics of photovoltaics.