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Dubai (PRWEB) November 23, 2011

Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group, a diversified family group based in the United Arab Emirates, has gone live with SunGards AvantGard to help it improve its treasury and cash management operations. Using AvantGard Treasury, Al Gurg Group has centralized its treasury and cash management activity at the group level, has created an in-house bank, and is working to establish a payments factory and centralization of trade finance processes.

AvantGard Treasury has replaced manual processes within Easa Saleh Al Gurg Groups treasury operations. One of the key reasons the group selected AvantGard was to help it develop an in-house bank. Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group owns 23 group companies that have each been maintaining their own bank accounts and relationships. Centralizing this function at the group level helps the company obtain greater visibility and control over treasury and cash management, in addition to helping reduce operational costs and optimize processes.

We chose AvantGard Treasury based on SunGards strong reputation in the Middle East for delivering proven solutions with a local team for implementation. We can already see how AvantGard is helping us automate more of our processes, introduce greater efficiency into treasury management and reduce costs through the centralization of bank accounts and bank dealings, said Abdulla Al Gurg, group general manager, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group.

SunGards AvantGard is covering Al Gurg Groups treasury and cash management requirements by providing an automated and centralized environment. Many organizations in the region are taking notice of the benefits and cost savings that treasury technology can help bring, while assisting them to adhere to and establish controls for complying with regional and international business standards. This project further demonstrates SunGards success and commitment to this region across our various solutions within the financial industry, said Wissam Khoury, managing director, SunGard Financial Systems, Middle East.

About Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group

The Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group was established by its current Chairman, Sir Easa Saleh Al Gurg CBE, in 1960. Over the past 51 years the Group has witnessed steady growth and is among the top 5 ranked Emirati-owned conglomerates in the U.A.E.

The Group consists of 23 group companies including 4 Joint Ventures, which together represent more than 300 international brands throughout U.A.E., Oman and Qatar.

Some of the Groups represented brands include: Unilever, Siemens, Steelcase, Electrolux, 3M, AkzoNobel, Osram, Fisher & Paykel, Dunlop, SieMatic, Grundig, United Colors or Benetton, Fosroc, Viking Johnson, Smeg, British American Tobacco, Catnic, IDdesign, Danfloss, Broyhill, Armitage Shanks, Interface Flor.

Apart from the represented brands the Group also comprises of several 100% owned manufacturing facilities, including a Steel Foundry, Paints Factory and a Furniture Joinery.

The company is supported by very strong liquidity and is independent of external financing. Because of this the Group has a consistently solid capital base and solvency position.

About SunGards AvantGard

SunGards AvantGard is a leading liquidity and risk management solution for corporations, insurance companies and the public sector. The AvantGard solution suite includes credit risk modeling, collections management, treasury risk analysis, cash management, payments system integration, and payments execution delivered directly to corporations or via banking partners. AvantGard solutions help consolidate data from multiple in-house systems, drive workflow and provide connectivity to a broad range of trading partners including banks, SWIFT, credit data providers, FX platforms, money markets, and market data. The technology is supported by a full range of services delivered by domain experts including managed cloud services, treasury operations management, SWIFT administration, managed bank connectivity, bank on-boarding, and vendor enrollment. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com/avantgard.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the worlds leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves over 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com.

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Placerville, CA (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

Alight LLC, developers of the industry-leading Alight Planning financial planning and reporting software, today announced that Rand Heer, an industry spokesperson for budgeting and enterprise planning solutions and Alight CEO, will keynote multiple rolling forecast trainings and workshops detailing how companies can quadruple the ROI of financial planning and analysis.

I am pleased by the positive reception of the Planning Maturity Curve that we introduced earlier in 2011. The market is seeing a massive shift from software solutions designed only to streamline the annual budget and save time with automated reports to a sharp focus on continuous planning and rolling forecasts. The Planning Maturity Curve helps you measure the ROI of planning activities and in almost all cases, we conclude that the action and excitement right now is in agile planning which is characterized by driver-based planning, integrated actuals, and scenario analysis, Heer said. The presentation takes the materials I developed last year to the next level and retains its educational focus on the core processes required to make planning a value-add activity. Most importantly, were seeing that by leveraging driver-based planning and integrating actuals at the right level of detail into the financial plan, it can be easy to implement agile planning and introduce best practices such as a rolling forecast.

Earlier in 2011, CFO Magazine invited Rand to lead a workshop on the Planning Maturity Curve as part of CPMT3 TacticsToolsTechnology slated for January 31st 1:00 4:30pm at the Grand Hyatt New York. It will be the first opportunity to see Rand present in 2012 and is also the debut Planning Maturity Curve presentation at a CFO Magazine event. The material resonates with companies of all sizes and is gaining traction with larger organizations including Siemens and PerkinElmer. Rand will also keynote ASMI Rolling Forecast Trainings in San Diego and Washington DC. In addition, Ben Lamorte, VP Marketing & Sales, will speak at ASMI events in Dallas and Boston.

Earlier this month, Mr. Lamorte was selected as an ASMI Senior Fellow. I am always grateful for an honor and thank the ASMI for the recognition; however, it is the quality of the finance professionals who attend the ASMI events that make the interactive presentations so valuable. Building off another successful ASMI event in San Diego earlier this spring, Alight is pleased to be the lead sponsor for budgeting and forecasting events in 2012, says Lamorte, who first presented at ASMI with Larry Van Kuran of Kaiser Permanente on the topic of driver-based planning back in 2008. Lamorte will employ current forecasting theory and best practices to reflect on how organizations can quickly move across the Planning Maturity Curve and quadruple the ROI of Financial Planning and Analysis.

ASMI is pleased to partner with Alight Planning for our cornerstone Budgeting and Forecasting Summits and Rolling Forecast trainings remarks Maria Cvitkovic, Director of Education with ASMI, Ben and Rand both bring tremendous value to our audience, and their Planning Maturity Curve takes scenario analysis and agile planning to the crucial next level.

To view a demo of Alight Planning Enterprise, or for more information about Alights budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and agile planning solutions, visit http://www.alightplanning.com.

For more information about the American Strategic Management Institute (ASMI), visit http://www.ASMIweb.com.

For more information about CFO and upcoming events, visit http://www.cfo.com/conferences.

About ASMI

In this challenging economic landscape, organizations must develop and execute innovative strategies to survive and thrive. Performance and process improvement methodologies give managers the tools they need to run leaner, more efficient businesses. The mission of the American Strategic Management Institute (ASMI) is to connect business leaders with best-in-class practices and training to address management challenges and improve results. ASMI has grown into one of the nations most innovative training providers, combining market research and industry insight to deliver experiences and tools to inspire leaders and grow businesses. Through virtual sessions, national summits, training programs and consulting services, ASMI brings together leaders to share insights, ideas and actions to transform organizations.

About Alight LLC

Alight LLCs Alight Planning is a true driver-based financial planning and reporting software package that automates complex business modeling for more accurate strategic plans, revenue projections, budgets and rolling forecasts. Its unique architectures and easy-to-use interfaces provide finance staff the power they need to build complex driver-based planning models, while delivering traditional budgeting and planning structures such as line item detail, integrated financial statements and multiple-user security. Cost-effective and IT-independent, Alight Planning is affordable and easily deployed by Fortune 500 business units, as well as midmarket companies with limited IT resources. Alight has over 250 customers including Kaiser Permanente, Pennsylvania State University, British Telecommunications, Pittsburgh Mercy Health, the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Disney World and Verizon Wireless. For more information about Alight Planning, visit http://www.AlightPlanning.com or call 800-960-7717.

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Seattle, WA (PRWEB) November 30, 2011

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Placerville, CA (PRWEB) November 30, 2011

Alight LLC, developers of the industry-leading Alight Planning financial planning and reporting software, today announced that it has joined Oracles partnership program at the Gold level.

As the leader and industry spokesperson for budgeting and enterprise planning solutions, Rand Heer, Alights CEO was delighted to be selected as an Oracle Gold Partner. Rand, who founded Pillar, the first enterprise planning software package, reflects on some important history to frame this partnership, In 1994, Hyperion acquired Pillar. With over 2,500 customers purchasing Hyperion Pillar, the deal proved to be one of the great cash cows of the decade. Ironically, though in 2007, Oracle acquired Hyperion and finally killed Pillar which was replaced with Hyperion Planning. Some Pillar users did not make the move to Hyperion Planning including Apple Computer which is still using Pillar at the time of our partnership because Pillar had some beautiful functionality especially around unit rate amounts.

Jeffrey Walker who built Oracle’s applications business and was also CFO at Oracle was pleased to learn of the partnership, Looking back on it, its too bad we at Oracle didnt pick up on Pillar and Rands vision before Hyperion. You can see the Pillar foundations for enterprise planning today in offerings from Oracle, IBM, and SAP. With Alight, Rand advances his vision to new heights and makes his planning tools accessible to companies of all sizesnot just big players with deep pockets. I expect the partnership with Oracle will lead to big things for both parties.

The news of the partnership is quite exciting to finance and IT teams who are already working with both Alight and Oracle. Mark Brinkerhoff, VP Finance with Ultradent, is eager to reap the benefits of this new relationship, Before Alight was selected as an Oracle Gold Partner, I have been able to get our financial data out of Oracle Financials and into Alight. We have a complex chart of accounts so we leverage Alights logfiles feature which gives us complete visibility if something slips during an import. While data integration from Oracle to our spreadsheet model often took several days, we can get our Oracle data integrated into Alight in about one business day. With Oracle Gold Partner status, Alight’s import process with Oracle Financials is on track to get even better in 2012.”

In addition to Ultradent, dozens of companies who use both the Alight Planning solution and Oracle/Hyperion applications should benefit from this new partnership including mid-sized companies such as Atronix and larger organizations such as Siemens PLM Software.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle’s partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracles growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

About Alight LLC

Alight LLCs Alight Planning is a true driver-based financial planning and reporting software package that automates complex business modeling for more accurate strategic plans, revenue projections, budgets and rolling forecasts. Its unique architectures and easy-to-use interfaces provide finance staff the power they need to build complex driver-based planning models, while delivering traditional budgeting and planning structures such as line item detail, integrated financial statements and multiple-user security. Cost-effective and IT-independent, Alight Planning is affordable and easily deployed by Fortune 500 business units, as well as midmarket companies with limited IT resources. Alight has over 250 customers including Kaiser Permanente, Pennsylvania State University, British Telecommunications, Pittsburgh Mercy Health, the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Disney World and Verizon Wireless. For more information about Alight Planning, visit http://www.AlightPlanning.com or call 800-960-7717.

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Herndon, VA (PRWEB) November 30, 2011

With the success of the World Molecular Imaging Society’s (WMIS) initiative in helping obtain the FDA approval for Sodium Fluoride F18 injection, WMIS is now launching critical clinical trials to secure fair and meaningful reimbursement for this procedure. Successful clinical trials for reimbursement are necessary to ensure the feasibility and market acceptance for this diagnostic test.

The completion of the WMIS-led clinical trial, which has enrolled more than 325 patients, is a necessary CMS prerequisite prior to inclusion of sodium fluoride F 18 as a covered diagnostic positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/computed tomography (CT) clinical service for patients. A nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a 3-D image or picture of biological processes in the body, PET is used to diagnose and improve patient management in diseases such as cancer, heart disease and neurologic disorders.

Leading companies in the industry such as IBA Molecular North America Inc., PETNET Solutions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., GE, and Triad are helping to support WMIS in this initiative.

Results from this WMIS trial and the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR) for sodium fluoride are required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to enable a broad coverage decision.

With great partners such as IBA Molecular North America Inc., PETNET Solutions, GE, and Triad we are transforming the competitive dynamics of the industry and WMIS is proud to facilitate industry-wide collaboration to deliver profound innovations said WMISs President Dr. Juri Gelovani. The industry needed to transition into a positive and collaborative gear to overcome self-defeating inertia and to create a win-win for all stakeholders. WMIS is smashing the industry silos and leading the convergence.

Commenting on this remarkable example of industry-wide collaboration, PETNETs CEO Ian Turner said: The participation of industry, NOPR collaboration and multi-site interest in this innovative research reinforces the commitment to advancing a new paradigm for molecular imaging. PETNET Solutions is proud of its participation in this collaborative effort to advance the knowledge of the inherent benefit offered with sodium fluoride F 18 bone imaging relative to existing technology.

IBA Molecular North America Inc., another industry leader and critical partner in the initiative, has also committed significant resources and taken a leadership role to accelerate the success of the initiative.

WMIS anticipates conclusion of the trial in 2012. CMS broad coverage approval is expected after trial results and the NOPR registry data are collected and published.

About WMIS

The World Molecular Imaging Society is a progressive organization that builds the school of thought, scientific paradigms and clinical practices of Molecular Imaging to advance the growing field of Molecular Medicine. The Academy and its journal are involved in the various technologies of molecular imaging and multimodalities formed by merging together imaging of biological processes with imaging anatomical structures within which these processes take place. This includes such technologies as PET, optical imaging, MRI, SPECT, CT and ultrasound. WMIS is the sponsor for the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR). To learn more about WMIS or to become a member, please visit the website at http://www.wmis.org.

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Cockeysville, MD (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

On November 14th, 2011 Leisure Fitness opened its 19th store. The new Leisure Fitness – Cockeysville, MD store is located at 9709 York Road. This is Leisure Fitness’ fifth location in Maryland, with more locations coming very soon.

Leisure Fitness offers high-quality fitness equipment to meet your home, office, and corporate needs. Equipment includes ellipticals, treadmills, recumbent and upright bikes, home gyms, rowing machines, free weights, and accessories.

The store will have a full selection of top brands including; Precor, Life Fitness, Landice, Inspire, Diamondback, LifeSpan Fitness, Spirit Fitness, ElliptiGO, Bodyguard, AbCoaster, Body-Solid and more.

Leisure Fitness operates under the philosophy that to reach a wellness destination people must have education and motivation. Therefore, Leisure Fitness provides a professional, educated staff of fitness experts who are knowledgeable about all of the equipment’s capability and performance specifications as well as what equipment is right for any of the countless individual needs that their customers can and will have.

To promote wellness in the community, Leisure Fitness is offering free Corporate Wellness Seminars to major employers in Cockeysville and surrounding communities. Other organizations that have taken advantage of these seminars include Princeton University, Siemens, Wawa, FBI, Johns Hopkins Hospital Systems, and Astra Zeneca.

Gerad Ryder, Manager for the Cockeysville Store, said, Leisure Fitness is excited to serve the Cockeysville communitys fitness needs and to provide health and fitness guidance to meet there fitness goals. Gerad has over 24 years of experience in the fitness industry, managing markets from New York City down to Virginia.

Leisure Fitness is passionately committed to providing the tools that will help its customers get fit and stay fit. All the products displayed and sold at Leisure Fitness are carefully reviewed to insure that every item is of the highest quality and engineered to deliver results. Once becoming a member of the Leisure Fitness customer family, Leisure Fitness makes every effort to continue to motivate and educate their customers with a variety of services designed to keep people moving towards their fitness goals and beyond.

If youd like more information about Leisure Fitness please visit LeisureFitness.com, or contact store manager, Gerad Ryder, at (443) 330-5432.

If you are interested in Corporate Wellness Seminars, please call Anne Stephenson, at (302) 224-5062.

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Freiburg, GERMANY (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

Paragon Software Group (PSG), the technology leader in innovative mobile device and embedded system solutions, announces that the Paragon Universal File System Driver (UFSD) technology is now available to OEMs of consumer multimedia devices seeking cross-platform file system support. With Paragons UFSD support for all popular file systems built into modern digital devices, consumers can enjoy issue-free compatibility between file systems used on their media centers, digital televisions and set-top boxes, and those used to format storage media, such as portable HDDs, in order to freely play back recorded video and audio regardless of file system type.

Critical for reliable HD audio/video recording and playback, Paragons UFSD technology guarantees high-performance, cross-platform read/write access and speedy file transfer in digital multimedia devices. Paragon UFSD technology can be fully integrated into the VFS (Virtual File System) stack of the operating system, including ThreadX devices, enabling OEMs to ensure end-user access to files stored on externally attached NTFS, HFS+ and exFAT file system-formatted media.

With its deep focus on cross-platform technologies for all existing embedded operating systems, Paragon is recognized as the first software developer to provide full read/write access between incompatible file systems. According to Konstantin Komarov, CEO, Paragon Software Group, File system incompatibility can be a real issue for a wide range of consumer products, often delaying or even halting consumer product development. We offer chipmakers an elegant, cost-effective way of solving the issue and meeting increased customer demand for high-performance access to large data files, such as HD video.

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Richmond, VA (PRWEB) November 18, 2011

On November 18, 2011 Leisure Fitness opened its 20th store. The new Leisure Fitness – Richmond, VA store is located at 9462 West Broad Street. This is Leisure Fitness’ fourth location in Virginia, with more locations coming very soon.

Leisure Fitness offers high-quality fitness equipment to meet your home, office, and corporate needs. Equipment includes ellipticals, treadmills, recumbent and upright bikes, home gyms, rowing machines, free weights, and accessories.

The store will have a full selection of top brands including; Precor, Life Fitness, Landice, Inspire, Diamondback, LifeSpan Fitness, Spirit Fitness, ElliptiGO, Bodyguard, AbCoaster, Body-Solid and more.

Leisure Fitness operates under the philosophy that to reach a wellness destination people must have education and motivation. Therefore, Leisure Fitness provides a professional, educated staff of fitness experts who are knowledgeable about all of the equipment’s capability and performance specifications as well as what equipment is right for any of the countless individual needs that their customers can and will have.

To promote wellness in the community, Leisure Fitness is offering free Corporate Wellness Seminars to major employers in Cockeysville and surrounding communities. Other organizations that have taken advantage of these seminars include Princeton University, Siemens, Wawa, FBI, Johns Hopkins Hospital Systems, and Astra Zeneca.

Bruce Hailey, Manager for the Richmond Store, said, Leisure Fitness is excited to serve the Richmond communitys fitness needs and to provide health and fitness guidance to meet there fitness goals. Bruce has over 15 years of industry experience in the Virginia market.

Leisure Fitness is passionately committed to providing the tools that will help its customers get fit and stay fit. All the products displayed and sold at Leisure Fitness are carefully reviewed to insure that every item is of the highest quality and engineered to deliver results. Once becoming a member of the Leisure Fitness customer family, Leisure Fitness makes every effort to continue to motivate and educate their customers with a variety of services designed to keep people moving towards their fitness goals and beyond.

If youd like more information about Leisure Fitness please visit LeisureFitness.com, or contact store manager, Bruce Hailey, at (804) 814-8155.

If you are interested in Corporate Wellness Seminars, please call Anne Stephenson, at (302) 224-5062.

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San Jose, California (PRWEB) November 18, 2011

Follow us on LinkedIn Nuclear imaging procedures are generally employed to detect cancerous growths, for the prognosis of susceptibility to brain disorders, and for the clinical assessment of cardiac risk. Rising incidences of cardiac arrests and brain disorders, increasing propensity to acquire cancerous growths and ageing population are resulting in heightening health concerns and popularizing preventive medicine among the medical fraternity and patient groups. Consequently, the penetration of gamma scintillation cameras is increasing due to increasing number of periodic diagnostic tests performed. The Gamma/Scintillation Cameras market has been actively contributing to the development of nuclear medicine field and as a result, has accomplished high levels of penetration and sophistication. However, the high penetration levels limit market opportunities to sophisticated upgrades and aftermarket parts, which comprise more than half the equipment market. Additionally, the rising popularity of PET procedures is seemingly threatening the future of the Gamma/Scintillation Cameras in the traditional imaging arena. Innovative applications and advancements in technology are the only routes to drive sales of the new equipment.

As stated by the new market research report on Gamma/Scintillation Cameras, the US is the worlds largest market. Europe, driven by innovation, integration, sophistication and digitalization of equipment is the second largest regional market. Asia-Pacific emerges as the fastest growing region for Gamma/Scintillation Cameras displaying a CAGR of 2.2% over the analysis period. Economic resurgence, improving healthcare scenario, and rising personal disposable incomes are presenting opportunities for the medical technology companies to capitalize in these under-penetrated markets. Product wise, Gamma Cameras represents the largest product segment. Displaying a CAGR of 3.5% over the analysis period, Nuclear medicine patient tables is the fastest growing product segment. Nuclear cardiac procedures and alarming propensities to malignant cancerous growths are driving the market.

Major players profiled in the report include Acrorad Co., Ltd., Digirad Corporation, Dilon Technologies, LLC, Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc., GE Healthcare UK Ltd., Mediso Medical Imaging Systems, Nuclear Cardiology Systems, Inc., Positron Corporation, Philips Healthcare, Siemens Healthcare, among others.

The research report titled Gamma/Scintillation Cameras: A Global Strategic Business Report announced by Global Industry Analysts Inc., provides a comprehensive review of trends, issues, strategic industry activities, and profiles of major companies worldwide. The study analyzes market data and analytics in terms of value sales in US$ Million for the global market by the following regions – US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), the Middle East, Latin America, and Rest of World. Key product segments analyzed include Gamma Cameras, Collimators, Gantry, Nuclear Medicine Patient Tables, Computerized Video Display Consoles, and Computer Workstations.

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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) November 18, 2011

Two new solar systems will be dedicated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony held today at Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU). The new 620kW DC photovoltaic (PV) system and 54 kW solar thermal hot water system on PLNUs campus will provide a combined savings of up to $ 1.6 million over the next 20 years. The projects build on PLNUs first solar PV system developed by SPG Solar in 2008. PLNU continues to show their commitment to sustainability with one of the highest ratios of solar power to students in the U.S.

SPG Solar – a leading national solar energy company – designed, engineered and constructed the 620kW system that spans two rooftops and five solar carports, using Kyocera KD 235-watt solar panels. Perpetual Energy Systems financed the system through a Power Purchase Agreement under which PLNU will purchase the electricity produced at a predetermined rate over 20 years.

Concurrent to the PV systems construction was the installation of a 54 kW solar water heating system by Adroit Solar, an integrator of solar thermal systems. The system will provide an estimated 940 gallons of hot water a day to the student dorms and save the university $ 5,000 annually on utility bills. The project was financed by the Student Green Fund, a $ 5 semester fee initiated by students to provide funding for sustainability efforts on campus.

The two projects, which include more than 2,600 Kyocera solar panels, are expected to produce over 917,000 kilowatt-hours annually and provide a savings of up to $ 1.6 million over the next two decades.

What the partners are saying about these innovative solar projects:

PLNU strives to be forward thinking and take a leadership role in sustainability efforts and environmental stewardship, said Dr. Bob Brower, president of PLNU. The stewardship of resources is one of our core values. It was through the strong partnership with Kyocera, SPG Solar, Perpetual Energy Systems, and Adroit Solar that we were able to expand our solar portfolio.

SPG Solar values its great partnership with Point Loma Nazarene University, to date installing nearly 1 megawatt (MW) of solar power on the campus, said SPG Solar CEO Chris Robine. Through the dedicated support from the students, faculty and staff, PLNU is a leader and preparing for the future securing predictable energy rates and enriching the educational experience for the students with this cross campus solar power system.

PLNU is one of the most innovative universities, filled with students and faculty who are driven by energy, water and resource conservation. We applaud their decision to install a solar thermal system, which further showcases their sustainability efforts and provides consistent financial savings for years to come, said Jim Backman, President of Adroit Solar.

Recognized for its leadership in the area of sustainability, PLNU has joined a growing number of environmentally conscience academic institutions whose investment in clean solar generated-electricity will benefit future generations, said Steve Hill, president of Kyocera Solar, Inc.

PES is proud to count PLNU among the ranks of universities that clearly understand the benefits of hosting solar energy through power purchase agreements, said Michael Streams, Senior Vice President of Perpetual Energy Systems.

About Point Loma Nazarene University

Point Loma Nazarene University is a selective Christian liberal arts university located in San Diego, California. Founded in 1902, PLNU is known not only for its 90-acre campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean but also for its well-rounded, forward-thinking graduates. In addition to more than 50 undergraduate areas of study, PLNU offers graduate program regional centers in Bakersfield, Arcadia, Mission Valley (San Diego) and the Inland Empire. PLNU serves more than 3,500 students. To learn more about PLNU visit http://www.pointloma.edu.

About SPG Solar

SPG Solar is a leading national solar energy company providing the highest quality and most reliable distributed solar power systems to large commercial, industrial, government and public energy users. Headquartered in the Bay Area, California, SPG Solar has been delivering the highest quality solar energy solutions to its customers for over a decade. SPG Solar provides the best products and services to clients from the SPG Solar SunSeeker