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has approximately 100 full-time employees, and up
to 200 part-timers, as necessary. Last year, it hosted
130 events.
“Generally speaking, we do a great deal of national as-
sociation business that is traditional in the convention
marketplace,” says Hayes. “We also do a fair amount
of corporate business – a lot that is from the high-tech
marketplace. And then, the other large portion of that
is from the multi-level marketing or direct sales seg-
ment. Utah, and Utah County, and parts of Idaho is
home to many direct sales corporations and we do
some significant and large events. And then we also
get into the traditional, for-profit trade show market-
place, as well.”
Just as the original Salt Palace was a pacesetter in its
use of electricity back at the end of the 19th century,
one of the salient features of the modern Salt Palace
is also related to how it utilizes and, in this case, cre-
ates its electricity. On its roof, the County installed
6,006 solar panels, making it one of the nation’s larg-
est rooftop, solar arrays. “Those solar panels generate
about 2.3 million kilowatt hours,” says Hayes. “That
offsets about 25 percent of our annual consumption
of power. And we expect over the lifetime of those so-
lar panels that the average offset will be more about
