American Solar Energy Society’s

National Solar Tour Statistics

Year	Total estimated Visitors	Number of Homes, Schools, Libraries, Commercial Bldgs., Etc.	Communities	Number of States (+ DC)	Media Information
1996	5,000	400	Unknown	22	Unknown
1997	12,000	600	100	31	Unknown
1998	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	36	70 Local daily newspapers
1999	14,000	800	105	36	Unknown
2000	15,000	630	298	37	8 million media impressions
2001	18,500	800	422	44	18.3 million media impressions
2002	26,116	1222	664	44	228 media placements Audience: 47,828,343
2003	33,617	1716 (1352 homes & 364 bldgs)	745	45	256 media placements Audience: 25,024,755

Note: One of the National Solar Tour Sites in 2002 was the Solar Decathlon on the National Mall. This skewed the data for media coverage in 2002. We did not, however, count any of the 125,000 attendees at the mall event in our estimates of total visitors. Because ASES did not have access to radio, television or internet media impressions our public outreach numbers are different than in 2002.