We harness sunlight to infuse your awards with good, clean, positive energy!
With the addition of our rooftop solar panels, we’ve become the only awards company to offer solar powered markings and personalization!
Eclipse Awards: Powered by Solar Energy
Eclipse Awards has harnessed the sun’s energy to bring you the most eco-friendly, green awards and plaques available! We became the world’s first (and so far only) solar powered awards and trophy shop on a bright and sunny day in May 2019, when we excitedly flipped the switch on our new rooftop solar panels and watched the clean energy start to flow!
We want people to feel like they are basking in the glowing warmth of the sun when you present them with an award made by Eclipse Awards, so it’s been a longstanding dream of ours to infuse the sun’s energy into our awards and trophies.
Using solar energy to help power our studio and equipment now means everything we make for you has a lighter and cleaner footprint. The dashboard below reports how much energy our solar system is currently producing, in real time:
We started planning for solar power in 2007 while achieving our first ClimateSmart certification. At that time, we created a 5 year “energy roadmap” to reduce our energy consumption, and installing solar panels on our roof was the ultimate goal of that plan. However, it would take another 5 year plan, then nearly 2 years to navigate Vancouver’s outdated city bylaws before we accomplished it. But we finally did it, and now we enjoy clean energy from the sun, made on site, throughout most of the year! Any remaining energy that we need comes from green energy sources via Bullfrog Power.
We installed a 2.56 kW grid-tie system that consists of 8 x 320 Watt solar panels on our rooftop. The solar panels generate clean electricity that helps to power the electrical loads at Eclipse Awards, and any excess energy that we produce is fed back into the city’s power grid for others to use!
Solar Powered Laser Engraving, Sandblasting and Cosmo Printing
With the addition of our rooftop solar panels, we’ve become the only awards company to offer solar powered markings and personalization! Now you can feel even better and more confident in the sustainability of your wooden awards and crystal trophies knowing they are made with clean solar power.
Stay tuned as we launch even more eco-friendly, green awards and trophies to help you celebrate the human spirit!