You've just arrived at the hottest site on the Internet. Why? Because hour by hour, you'll be able to see how much electricity the sun makes using solar panels at a school like yours. AEP is working with schools throughout the country to help them track their energy usage and show students how solar energy is a part of our total energy mix. While there, you can learn other fun energy facts. You're a click away from:

• Getting into the 'Power Pie'. Quick — if there are 10 different kinds of energy slices in the pie, and you eat one of the slices that make up half the pie, will enough be left over to run your refrigerator? Who's got more sun: Florida or Ohio? Who's got more coal? Take a walk into Infobooks and Cyberspace to find answers.
• Learning how to 'Make electrons sweat.' As a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Lights Utility Ally of the Year, we've figured out how to save 23 million kilowatt-hours every year, and we're not in the dark. We try to generate and deliver electricity as efficiently and wisely as we can by squeezing all the electrons we can out of our natural resources. Doing this helps stretch the supply of fossil fuels, reduce our effect on the environment and save our customers money. The Datapult^sm service, which brings the information here from the solar panels, helps customers do the same thing. We'll show you how to pick up a tube of the sun and even how to cool your house with hot water!
• Getting answers about solar energy project in 'What's your question?'
• Ten steps for your school to join the Million Solar Roofs club and get your solar energy graphs up on our Web site in 'Getting your own project.'
• Making graphs that show how much electricity the sun can make and how the school uses it in 'School projects. Hmm, you're in Virginia and the solar panel graph for Bluffsview Elementary School, in Worthington, Ohio, isn't showing much? Check on the satellite weather link to see if it's cloudy. What's the tilt of the panels? Listen to teachers talk about the neat stuff they're going to do. Need help with your school's curriculum? Send an e-mail to the people who helped put the Bluffsview project together, such as Fran at the school or Barry at AEP or Glen at the Foundation for Environmental Education.

Materials are available to complement the solar power system and web graphing in the program. More are under development. We also welcome any materials you would like to share.

Take a look at the materials being used in our Texas schools, the NEED workbooks and the information on energy trends and energy efficiency in 'Power Pie' and 'Make electrons sweat.'

AEP is working with schools throughout the country to help them track their energy usage and show students how solar energy is a part of our total energy mix.