MiaSole Celebrates Wales Solar Park With ArtAt Festival Sponsorship

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MiaSole, the leading manufacturer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, today announced its sponsorship of the ArtAt 2011 Festival to commemorate the launch of the new Western Solar Park at Rhosygilwen, Wales. The festival takes places in the Rhosygilwen's extensive grounds from August 26-29, 2011.

The Western Solar Park is a first for Wales and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. Comprising over 9,000 panels that equal 1MW, the park will generate enough green energy to power 600 homes when it is connected to the UK's national grid this summer. This creates a large carbon neutral region in North Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. The Park is also the first site in the U.K. where MiaSole CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) panels, one of the highest efficiency thin-film photovoltaic solar panels in the world, are installed.

"MiaSole is delighted to have partnered with Rhosygilwen and Czech installer FitCraft Production to create an environmentally friendly footprint in West Wales," said Joseph Laia, President and Chief Executive Officer, MiaSole. "At MiaSole we're committed to advancing the extraordinary potential of solar power as a competitive, sustainable energy source and the Western Solar Park is an excellent example of this."

Now in its fourth year, ArtAt exhibits works by nationally recognized and impressive emerging artists with connections to Wales in Neuadd y Dderwen (Oak Hall) and outdoor sculptures in the Park.

Many of the works created for this year's festival reflect the artists' concerns with environmental, recycling, and green energy issues. Standing at the entrance to the Western Solar Park will be "Sol," a dramatic horse's head sculpted by Chris Crane out of recycled parts of wind turbines, gas gaskets and other scrap metals. John Binet-Fauvel knits his sculpture out of discarded electrical wiring. Michelle Caine weaves hers out of willow. Cassandra Lishman has also chosen willow to weave a group of Herons on legs of sculpted metal made in partnership with a local blacksmith. Dawny Tootes has used salvaged aluminium to create a Chandelier that will hang from a tree and be lit by solar lights. Melissa Warren incorporates found and recycled materials to create works that can integrate with plants and weather with the seasons. Trashion Fashion in the Gazebo will display ravishing designer clothing created out of discarded materials by six West Wales designers and textile students from Carmarthen College.

About MiaSole

MiaSole is a pioneer and leading developer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, one of the lowest-cost, highest efficiency solar panels in the world. MiaSole's primary mission is to advance the extraordinary potential for harnessing solar power as a competitive, sustainable energy source. MiaSole operates its manufacturing facilities in California.

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