Exterior – Shafer Vineyards – Day. High Angle Long Shot - Vineyard.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- Doug Shafer. Shafer Vineyards.
Extreme Close Shot - Grapes. Water sprinkling from above.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- Here in the Napa Valley.
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer:
- We grow grapes and make wine and been...
Close Shot - Grapes on vine.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- in business twenty-six years.
Dissolve to Long Shot - Rows of grape vines.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- It's a family operation.
Long Shot - Past grape vines in foreground to mountain range.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- I work with my dad. And we start out as growers. Grew grapes for...
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer (continued):
- seven or eight years before we started making wine.
Close Shot - Multicolored grapes on vine.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- When I took over the vineyards...
Full Shot - Rows of grape vines.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- in nineteen eighty-nine, I wanted to get away from chemical use...
Medium Close Shot - Rows of grape vines.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- and get into a more sustainable mode of farming. And a few years...
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- ago we started reading about solar power coming...
Dissolve to Long Shot - Treetops. Camera tilts down on to solar panels in field.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- back into- into vogue if you will. And we did some investigation and a couple years ago invested in quite an array of solar panels.
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer:
- Utility bills for electricity use to be thirty or forty thousand dollars a year or more. And even with the small amount we're still doing, you know, we're down to four or five...
Dissolve to Long Shot - Solar panels on roof of building. Camera zooms in slowly on solar panels.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- thousand a year. This- the system as it is is designed for a payback for us in about seven or eight years. So...
Dissolve to Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer (continued):
- it was a easy decision to make and um, once we got into it and learned more about, and have gone online now, it's great.
High Angle Long Shot - Solar panels on rooftops of buildings.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- We designed our system to be a hundred percent. We've had ups and downs and starts and stops. Nothing's perfect.
Dissolve to Distant Shot - Sun.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- But we're looking at and if it's st- still not covering a hundred percent, you know we have...
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer (continued):
- plans to add another array or two to cover it, 'cause we really wanna be a hundred percent.
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer:
- The G.E. panels, that was pretty much a no-brainer. Um, the installer we were using...
Long Shot - Solar panels on rooftop.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- they strongly recommend the G.E. panels as being some state-of-the-art stuff.
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer:
- (stammers) Basically a work horse. So, really, you know, we felt very good about going with those panels.
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer:
- Our system is a, a hundred and t- twenty kilowatt volt system...
Long Shot - Solar panels in field.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- which is pretty big, but we have...
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- uh, couple different cellars that are f- five thousand square feet each. And we keep...
Full Shot - Solar panels.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- 'em at fifty-five to sixty degrees year round. And in the summers...
Interior - Wine Cellar - Day. Full Shot - Rows of wine barrels.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- out here it’s pretty warm, so we need a lot of air conditioning...
Long Shot - Wine barrels stacked in cellar.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- for those- those cellars. Also during harvest we have a big need for...
Exterior – Shafer Vineyards – Day. Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover) (continued):
- cooling, 'cause we have to keep our tanks cool during fermentations.
High Angle Long Shot - Vineyard at dusk.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- So, there's a- quite a large demand for- for cooling at that time 'a year. Years ago the- I think, you know, the panels and cells weren't that advanced as they are now.
Low Angle Long Shot - Wine vats.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- Well, now they are. And they're workin'. And it's showin'
Long Shot - Row of wine vats. Man enters from off-screen right moving a wine barrel.
- Doug Shafer (voiceover):
- So, it's- it's great to get behind it and go for it.
Medium Close Shot - Doug Shafer.
- Doug Shafer:
- And it's become big business out here. We're also California, it's a natural. We get a lotta sunshine. Um, but bunch of my buddies, other wineries, are puttin' in systems right and left. A lotta people are puttin' 'em in at their homes. So, uh, it's exciting to see.
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