April 20, 2006 (Washington, DC) –

For further information contact: Scott Sklar  President   The Stella
                                             Group, Ltd. 1616 H Street, N.W.,                                             10th floor,  Washington, D.C. 20006
                                            Phone: 202-347-2214
                                            E-mail: solarsklar@aol.com                                      Website: www.thestellagroupltd.com

With 350 megawatts of concentrated solar electric generation in nine California facilities operating since 1985, little market penetration has occurred till recently. In March 2005, Solargenix Energy (NC) groundbroke a 64 megawatt concentrated solar plant in Boulder City, CO. Earlier Solargenix announced the co-purchase of 1500 acres of land in southern California for an eventual 100 MW concentrated solar plant cofired with biogas. This month, on Earth Day, Solargenix Energy announced that it’s 1 MW concentrated solar electric power plant is producing power for Arizona Public Service.

Stated Scott Sklar, President of The Stella Group, Ltd, a strategic marketing and financial firm based in Washington, DC, “this solar plant exemplifies that thousands of megawatts of solar electric power can be brought on in the southwestern United States without polluting land or water, without competing for water resources, and meeting baseload electric power requirements of a dynamically growing region of the United States.”

An APS and Solargenix Energy press release is available in PDF format by clicking here.

The Stella Group, Ltd. is a strategic marketing and policy firm advancing the utilization of clean, distributed energy and. Scott Sklar, the Group's founder and president, lives in a solar home in Arlington, Virginia,  has solar on both his VA and DC offices, and his coauthored book, A Consumer Guide to Solar Energy, was re-released for its third printing while his Q&A column appears on the largest renewable energy web portal: www.renewableenergyaccess.com. Scott Sklar serves as Steering Committee Chair of the Sustainable Energy Coalition, composed of the renewable energy and energy efficiency trade associations and analytical groups, and sits on the national Boards of Directors of the non-profit Business Council for Sustainable Energy, Renewable Energy Policy Project, and the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council.