Sentences with phrase «as solar farms»

Environmental recovery has proven especially challenging for these projects, opening the door for alternative industrial uses such as solar farms.

Dozens of big companies, including Bank of America, General Motors and Alphabet's Google, have been signing long - term contracts with wind as well as solar farms.

These properties make the cells ideal for things like windows or roofs, although they are probably less suitable for large - scale commercial applications, such as solar farms, because they need more area to produce the same amount of electricity as more typical silicon - based solar cells.

«These findings have implications for airport safety but also have potential applications for agriculture and for alternative energy sources such as solar farms, where birds living and feeding in the area can cause disruption, and around wind turbines where the birds are at risk of collision and the threat to birds can sometimes be a legislative barrier,» Professor Swaddle added.

Not exact matches

Though Democrats have historically been viewed as the strongest supporters of renewable energy, utility - scale wind farms and solar installations are found throughout the nation — including in Republican - leaning states like Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma and North Dakota — and enjoy bipartisan support among Americans.

When it comes to centralized solar, as well as wind farms, Berkshire Hathaway Energy has been a leader.

The country needs both more grid - tied power generation, like this wind farm, as well as off - grid power generation like home solar panels.

On the other side is the U.S. solar installation industry, which has benefited from low - cost panels that have led to explosive growth in rooftop systems on homes and commercial buildings as well as massive solar farms.

His Iowa - based unit now runs several power companies in the United States, Canada and Britain, as well as natural gas pipelines and solar and wind farms.

Its researchers are studying the potential for farming beneath solar panels — a process known as agrovoltaics.

Yieldcos are publicly traded units that hold renewable energy assets such as solar power plants and wind farms, including those bought from the sponsor or the parent company.

We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

My 100,000 - square - foot roof produces two million gallons of rainwater per year and as the first solar array farm in the world, I will have no electric, water or gas bill.»

Coca - Cola European Partners has announced a solar farm and a commitment to getting 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources as it advances sustainability in its UK operations.

More recently, the winery has committed to sustainability, with a focus on converting all family - owned vineyards to sustainable farming practices as well as the use of solar panels.

I'm a big proponent of classroom education and never would have pictured myself as a home - schooling parent, but if anything could convince me to change my tune, it's a science teacher opposing solar farms because they might suck up too much energy from the sun.

The state Assembly as early as today is expected to take up a bill to expand the core pine barrens designation to hundreds of acres in Shoreham and Mastic, in a move that could lead to scuttling plans for two commercial solar farms, including what would be the state's largest.

Regarding the Solar Farm proposal currently before the Town Board, solar energy is always good, but a large facility has to be reviewed so as to ensure that the adverse impacts, such as the potential impacts on aesthetics and the natural character of the surrounding area, are either avoided or minimized to the point that they are not signifiSolar Farm proposal currently before the Town Board, solar energy is always good, but a large facility has to be reviewed so as to ensure that the adverse impacts, such as the potential impacts on aesthetics and the natural character of the surrounding area, are either avoided or minimized to the point that they are not signifisolar energy is always good, but a large facility has to be reviewed so as to ensure that the adverse impacts, such as the potential impacts on aesthetics and the natural character of the surrounding area, are either avoided or minimized to the point that they are not significant.

Apart from individuals, corporate organisations were also named as beneficiaries in the new charges and they include AMP Solar Service, Afro - Arab Investment, Bam Project and Projecties Limited, Bob Oshodin Organisation Limited, Wehsac Farms Limited, Wehsac Limited, Dimaris Mode Coolture Limited, First Aralac Global Limited, Stellavera Development Limited, Jawaz Multi-purpose Venture Limited, Little Italy Global Services Limited, Belsha Nigeria Ltd and Syvan McNamara Limited among others.

The Town of Gardiner is bracing itself for some fiscal shocks in 2018, as residents clamor for overhauls of the town's outdated Master Plan and a Zoning Code that was not designed to cope with some types of contemporary development pressures, such as «glamping» and solar farms.

The Bui Power Authority (BPA) has released an amount of GHc42, 276.96 as compensation for persons whose farms will be affected in course of the establishment of Solar Project being undertaken by the Authority.

But others, such as RenewableUK, which represents wind and solar producers, have questioned the party's manifesto pledge to stop support for onshore wind farms — the cheapest renewable energy source.

But as a lender, it has also invested hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy projects, among them a wind farm in Texas and a 64 - megawatt solar - photovoltaic plant outside of Las Vegas.

Solar - powered skyscraper farms — such as this artist's rendering from Dickson Despommier's The Vertical Farm — could feed our growing cities of the future.

The third - party company currently being solicited by city officials would build a 100 - acre, 10 - MW solar farm near the North Florida community, as well as any transmission lines needed to connect the farm to the grid.

Frischknecht hopes that the Gullen Range project will serve as a model for how tacking solar onto existing wind farms can boost its application.

By building the Gullen Solar Farm adjacent to the existing wind project, Frischknecht estimates savings as high as A$ 6 million — reducing the cost of the project by a full 20 percent.

Renewable energy development could have a similar effect on the land, with large solar farm construction often scraping much of the land of vegetation as well.

The EIA estimates that wind and solar farms likely generated 10 percent of America's electricity in April as well, which would be another first, according to the report.

The largest solar farm in the world, in China, generates almost as much electricity as a large nuclear power plant

As you — for now let's just call it «you» — start a new chapter of existence exclusively within a machine, an existence that will last as long as there are server farms and hard - disk space and the solar power to run them, are «you» still actually yoAs you — for now let's just call it «you» — start a new chapter of existence exclusively within a machine, an existence that will last as long as there are server farms and hard - disk space and the solar power to run them, are «you» still actually yoas long as there are server farms and hard - disk space and the solar power to run them, are «you» still actually yoas there are server farms and hard - disk space and the solar power to run them, are «you» still actually you?

Because of the power of the lake effect, the federal investigators described such solar farms as «mega-traps» in their report.

The media speak of Algae oil, several recent articles in the media, or grasses that increase existing ethanol yields by up to 250 % (recently reported again in the UK media), of CCS trials in Australia, of CCS ready power stations (hillarious to be fair) and of wind and solar farms portrayed as if they will solve our carbon emissions issues.

The first crops of tomatoes and cucumbers grown inside electricity - generating solar greenhouses were as healthy as those raised in conventional greenhouses, signaling that «smart» greenhouses hold great promise for dual - use farming and renewable electricity production.

As I struggled on minimum life support, water and oxygen generation were low, I gradually extended my colony outwards towards a crucial metal deposit, critical for repairing my solar energy farms.

This year there is a desire to go bigger and better, extending this to showcase commercial rooftop solar, household solar and solar on schools, as well as solar farms.If your school has solar and you would like to invite people to come and learn about it, if you would like to organise a trip to a solar farm, or even if you would simply like a solar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get invosolar, household solar and solar on schools, as well as solar farms.If your school has solar and you would like to invite people to come and learn about it, if you would like to organise a trip to a solar farm, or even if you would simply like a solar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get invosolar and solar on schools, as well as solar farms.If your school has solar and you would like to invite people to come and learn about it, if you would like to organise a trip to a solar farm, or even if you would simply like a solar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get invosolar on schools, as well as solar farms.If your school has solar and you would like to invite people to come and learn about it, if you would like to organise a trip to a solar farm, or even if you would simply like a solar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get invosolar farms.If your school has solar and you would like to invite people to come and learn about it, if you would like to organise a trip to a solar farm, or even if you would simply like a solar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get invosolar and you would like to invite people to come and learn about it, if you would like to organise a trip to a solar farm, or even if you would simply like a solar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get invosolar farm, or even if you would simply like a solar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get invosolar - specific lesson plan, please get in touch at the Solar Trade Association to get invoSolar Trade Association to get involved.

Last year's event was the company's first, with many schools attending local solar farms, seeing the dual usage of agricultural farming as well as generating electricity, discovering the biodiversity measures that many farms use to attract insects and birds through use of wildflower meadows as well as learning how solar is a home - grown solution to the UK's energy crisis.

, that is utter nonsense and as wind and solar increase they will displace water and create power from hydro dams and sea wind farms into a totally clean electric infrastructure running clean electric steel forging, electric welding and electric aluminium smelting that will create these simple powerful cars for a much brighter future.

If the price of both carbon - burning extraction businesses and non-carbon emitting solar farms and wind farms were both fair before a carbon tax was introduced in any given jurisdiction, what would happen to the profitability of each as that tax came into effect (and was ramped up over time)?

Electricity is generated onsite using 216 solar photo - voltaic panels and some 250 Monterrey pine trees have been planted on the farm as part of a sustainable firewood programme.

Environmentally - conscious guests will be happy to note El Nido Cove Resort's conscientious practices, such as the use of solar panels and a greenhouse farm on the premises.

The Berlin - based Dean's best - known films have included Banewl, which charted the effect of a solar eclipse on a farm in Cornwall, and Disappearance at Sea where she filmed the transition from day to dusk as a lighthouse near Berwick became illuminated.

Here's a mitigative strategy: since anti-RE zealots love to slag solar farms as allegedly «devastating» to local ecologies due to land clearance, let's put solar farms on lands already «so battered and bruised by pollution as to be useless» for most purposes:

Distributed energy sources will be as important to a clean energy future as large solar power plants and wind farms.

Authored by independent ecologist Dr Guy Parker in partnership with leading UK conservation groups like the Grassland Trust and the Royal Society for Protection of Birds, as well as the Solar Trade Association (STA), the publication also includes guidance for solar farm operators to maximize their potential conservation beneSolar Trade Association (STA), the publication also includes guidance for solar farm operators to maximize their potential conservation benesolar farm operators to maximize their potential conservation benefits.

Still, we can invest our efforts in new development as wisely as possible, choosing solar over coal and biodiversity over factory farms.

Dr Parker said, «As an ecologist I've become very interested in the potential to use solar farms to boost biodiversity.

Customers purchase solar panels, as few or as many as they want, through CloudSolar, which will install the panels at their solar farms.

In the early 2000s, 50 miles from the MO I was helping my good mate (rip) install his self - sufficient solar power system w a battery pack unit which then was big as a car on a trailer, and helped out planting out his small plantation of Olive Trees into the ex-cow paddocks... he and his wife bought a 120 acre ex-cattle farm to regenerate that along the lines of New Age Healing Greenie Principles of Self - Sufficency and Self - Responsibility... they disconnected from the electricity grid as well.