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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Lani Gonzalez Innergy Power's Solar Solutions Support Grand Canyon Mapping Project SAN DIEGO, Calif. May 29, 2007 - Innergy Power today announced its participation in an ambitious U.S. Government project to create highly detailed maps of the nation's 400 national parks, beginning with the Grand Canyon. Innergy is providing the National Park Service’s mapping teams with customized solar-battery rechargers to keep electronics vital to the project running while in the field, far from any wall outlet. While a team is away from camp by day gathering mapping data, a second set of batteries for the next day’s excursion is being powered-up back at camp, using Innergy’s portable technology. The Park Service project will result in detailed computer-based maps showing terrain and vegetation with one- to five-meter resolution to help research and environmental scientists inventory and monitor conditions within the country’s most treasured lands. The Park Service plans to take the mapping program across country to create similar high-resolution data for all 400 National Parks, Historic Sites and Monuments. Innergy’s rugged, lightweight systems can take the pounding that an off-road, overland expedition dishes out, providing the perfect fit not only for the job at hand but for recreational uses as well. “Innergy Power is proud to be a participant in a project of national significance at one of the most beloved and recognizable places on the planet,” said Innergy CEO Darrell Musick. “The Grand Canyon project marks the first step in what we expect will be a long-term partnership with 3D Marketing, the prime vendor to the Park Service, and other U.S. government agencies doing similar GPS-related mapping work.” The project is one example of the rapidly growing array of applications for portable solar power combined with lightweight, thin-cell batteries for off-grid uses. “You can’t get much further off grid than the bottom of Grand Canyon, and Innergy is there, providing the Park Service the daily power supply it needs to keep its GPS mapping gear running,” Musick said. The Grand Canyon project employs the portable Thales Mobile Mapper. In consultation with 3D Marketing, the Park Service, which, as a matter of policy, does not formally endorse any of the products it uses, selected Innergy’s IP15B Solar Binder for this project. Innergy Power is a privately held company based in San Diego with manufacturing operations in Tijuana, Mexico. Specific questions can also be addressed by contacting Innergy Power at 888.737.7697 or e-mail . |