ADVISORY/Solar Power to the People.

News Editors

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Feb. 6)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Amid the continuing California power crisis, Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power customers citywide will soon see wider benefits from a
program that drives down the price of clean, renewable power and
jump-starts the city's solar power industry.

WHAT:   A news conference to announce a significant development in
        the manufacture and use of solar power in the city of Los
        Angeles.

WHO:    Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan
        Ken Lombard, president of the Board of Water and
          Power Commissioners
        Angelina Galiteva, LADWP director of strategic planning
        Solar manufacturing officials

WHEN:   Tuesday, Feb. 6, Noon

WHERE:  John Ferraro Building/LADWP headquarters
        Solar Carport
        111 N. Hope Street (at First Street)
        Los Angeles

VISUALS:

        Solar power and energy efficiency displays -- LADWP solar
        power array that powers the nation's largest electric vehicle
        charging station.

BACKGROUND:

        In a boon for the potential of wider use of solar power in Los
        Angeles, LADWP customers can receive $5 per watt incentives to
        install locally manufactured solar power systems at their
        homes and offices. The incentive program, which is enhanced as
        the solar industry grows in Los Angeles, holds the potential
        of creating 2 megawatts of nonpolluting photovoltaic energy,
        or enough to power about 600 homes annually in the city of Los
        Angeles. The program can help save energy and free up
        electricity to meet the needs in other parts of California.