Get ready for the 2025 CSF Solar Series!
Please follow us on social media or sign up for our mailing list to learn more about this year’s events as we update our calendar. Most of the events are free and open to the public. Registration is requested (unless otherwise specified).
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Our educational efforts aim to dispel misconceptions about solar energy and to uplift the work of groups across Wisconsin who are striving to decarbonize our power supply. You can help elevate these efforts by sponsoring the 2025 Solar Series. For more information, follow this link, or the QR code below.
Tentative CSF 2025 Solar Series Event Calendar
TBD – Wisconsin Solar Homes Pilot Project Launch
Date and Location: This event will be held in Vernon County. Exact details to come.
Join the Couillard Solar Foundation and Vernon County’s Couleecap for the launch of our new partnership, which aims to help financially-strained, rural homeowners access solar power.
Light refreshments will be served. Pre-registration is requested.
April – Earth Day Equity: Air Quality and Solar Power in Beloit
Date: April 22nd, 5-7pm; Beloit Public Library, Community Room (North)
A 2024 international report identified Beloit, WI as having worst air quality in the US for a city of its size. Census data shows that a third of Beloit’s roughly 36,500 residents are people of color, while nearly one-fifth fall below the poverty line. We will discuss the factors contributing to the city’s air pollution, a citizen science initiative aimed at monitoring it, and how solar could help alleviate this.
Light refreshments will be available, but we request attendees pre-register.
May – Solstock: Highlighting Youth-Led Environmental Projects
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2024 5pm-8pm
Topic: Join us for our 4th Annual Fundraising Festival. This year, we’ll be shifting the format to focus on storytelling, and a few youth-led environmental teams will share their plans with attendees.
Food and drinks will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public, but we request that attendees register in advance to enable our planning.
Sign up for our e-newletter HERE for more details as we get closer to the event.
Future-proofing Wisconsin Schools: How Solar Power Supports Savings and Learning
Friday, June 20th, Marathon High School Outdoor Classroom, Marathon City, WI
School’s out and graduation is over, but the learning never stops. Join school administrators and board members at this event in north-central Wisconsin for a half-day workshop on navigating the financing and processes needed to bring solar power to a school near you. Weather permitting, we will hold the workshop at Marathon High School’s outdoor classroom, a Couillard Solar Canopy.
Sign up for our newsletter HERE for more details as we get closer to the event, and please register so we know how many people to expect.
Photo: Courtesy Evonne Waugh, Sauk Prairie High School solar installation ribbon cutting 2024
August – Coping With Climate Anxiety
Date and Location: Madison Public Library – Central Branch, August 7th, 5:30-7:30pm
Extreme weather events such as Hurricane Helene and the Los Angeles fires – or even droughts like the one affecting almost half of Wisconsin – are becoming not only more common, but more severe. Carol Phelps is a climate activist based in Middleton who will be teaching a course at Madison College this spring on how to handle climate anxiety. She will guide participants through a process focused on connecting with their hopes for the future and identifying the resources and opportunities available to them in the present.
Presenter: Carol Phelps.
Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public, but we encourage you to pre-registrater HERE as seating is limited.
September – Resilience Hubs: How Solar Supports Emergency Preparedness
Date and Location: TBD
This unique event will dive into the Resilience Hub model for emergency preparedness. We will also hear about the way distributed energy systems, such as home solar installations with batteries, can support community resilience.
Speakers TBD.
Light refreshments will be served. Please reserve a spot so we can gauge attendance.
Photo by John Englart.
October – Game-ifying Your Home’s Green Transition
Date & Location: Madison Public Library – Central Branch, October 9, 5:30-7:30pm
This unique event will look at one Madison-area maker’s game, where players have to navigate their energy consumption and utility bills.
Please fill out the form HERE to register for this event.
More to come!
We will be updating this page with more information as we develop our calendar. Sign up for our enewsletter HERE so you don’t miss a thing. Or contact Zoe Sullivan, to learn more about any of our solar series events.