We added 44 solar panels to our roof last August! The panels have been generating enough electricity to run our main 3000 square foot room. In other words, all of our sewing machines, computers and retail lighting is solar powered, as well as over half of our production lighting. That just leaves the room that houses our cutting table, the break room, and our three-phase air compressor running on conventional electric power. Nice!

The racking system gets mounted to the roof.

Crazy clouds that August afternoon.

Leadville city hall

The time has come to do a little blogging at Melanzana. It’s been seventeen years since we started making outdoor clothing here in Leadville! Look for occasional posts from us on a variety of vaguely business-related topics. Hopefully this blog will prove to be mildly entertaining, or at least slightly informative. What else would you expect from the great minds at Melanzana?