College to Host Energy Conference

The Sustainable Energy Fund, Allentown, Pa., will hold its annual renewable energy education conference for policy-makers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, students, and consumers at Lafayette July 27 through August 1, with sessions on current trends in photovoltaic, wind, biomass, and geothermal technologies and other topics. Mark S. Singel, former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, will deliver a keynote talk.

The fund has awarded Lafayette a $15,000 grant to construct and install a three-kilowatt solar array at the Metzger Fields Athletic Complex that may be used to power equipment for the College’s composting and community garden project there. “We are very enthusiastic about hosting this event,” says President Daniel H. Weiss. “Lafayette is deeply committed to the issue of sustainability. We consider it central to our purpose and mission as a college.”