CAKE is very pleased to announce that we have installed a solar array on the roof of our studio in Sacramento, California. We hired a company with great experience and competence, Borrego Solar, and they set us up with a way to break away from our dependence on the city's energy grid. Working on a new album, we feel satisfaction in the common denominator of together embracing the unlimited resource of the sun.

CAKE is currently producing their sixth album of original songs. All the tracks will be recorded using 100% solar energy.

Informative Links:

• Click here to connect with renewable energy professionals.
• National Renewable Energy Lab - a facility for renewable energy and energy efficiency research, development, and deployment.
• Solar Today is a bi-monthly magazine that covers all renewable energy technologies, including photovoltaics, passive solar and other climate-responsive building, and wind power.
• The Home Energy Saver is designed to help consumers identify the best ways to save energy in their homes, and find the resources to do it.
• New financial solutions to the expense of a new system are beginning to emerge. 

Facts:

• Utilities across the USA are raising power prices up to 29%, mostly to pay for soaring fuel costs, but also to build new plants and refurbish an aging power grid.
• Rising fuel prices have driven up utility bills nearly 30% in the past five years, the sharpest jump since the 1970s energy crisis.
• The cost to build a power plant has also gone up, more than doubling since 2000.
• 96% of the world's transportation energy currently supplied by oil.
• $75 - Cost of barrel of oil on July 18th, 2007.
• $131 - Cost of barrel of oil on July 18th, 2008.
• 2030 = the year by which lifting the ban on offshore drilling may start to impact the price of gas.

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