Sentences with phrase «big solar power plant»

Solar - to - electric from one family developed to big solar power plant scale (world scale, Spain's one is biggest 20MW (20,000 KW).

Also, if the big solar power plants out west and some of the geothermal, hydroelectric, biofuel, and wind plants all connect to the same HVDC lines, the ratio of average to peak power transmission can be reduced along those lines by having geothermal, biofuel, and hydroelectric plants respond to variations in wind and solar.

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Not exact matches

The power industry is highly regional, and some states have big solar and wind industries, while others benefit from large natural gas resources, or have long had major coal plants.

For all the hype around rooftop solar, big power plants remain the solar workhorse.

Meanwhile, Tessera Solar, SES's sister company in charge of development, is renegotiating contracts with utilities in California but expects to supply power at or below the cost of other solar technologies, and they plan to break ground on bigger solar Stirling engine power plants in Texas and California in Solar, SES's sister company in charge of development, is renegotiating contracts with utilities in California but expects to supply power at or below the cost of other solar technologies, and they plan to break ground on bigger solar Stirling engine power plants in Texas and California in solar technologies, and they plan to break ground on bigger solar Stirling engine power plants in Texas and California in solar Stirling engine power plants in Texas and California in 2010.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

In July General Motors said it will build the world's biggest rooftop solar power station in Spain, carpeting two million square feet (185,800 square meters) of the roof at its Zaragoza automobile plant with 85,000 flexible solar panels.

Two California companies said Thursday that they would each build solar power plants that were 10 times bigger than the largest now in service, creating the first true utility - scale use of a technology now mostly confined to rooftop supplements to conventional power supplies.

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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.

It is true that the Google - and NRG - backed three - tower, 370 - megawatt solar power plant under construction in Ivanpah, CA, near Las Vegas, will be the biggest such project in the world when it goes on - line in 2013.

Similarly, the big solar industry is adding natural gas generation to its massive remote industrial solar power plants in CA.

China has just emerged as the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines and solar panels, and plans to be the world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants in the coming decade.

Solar panels, touted by many to be a renewable energy panacea that will rid the planet of all those nasty coal - fired power plants, may be a bigger boondoggle than we already thought.

China Solar Energy Blog keeps track of the latest developments in pilot solar power plants in Beijing (10 MW, courtesy of NYSE - listed Yingli Green Energy) Shanghai (1 MW and the biggest already in operation), Ningxia (330 kw, courtesy of Ningxia Power Group) and Shilin (66 MW, courtesy of Yunnan Power Investment New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and the largest plant in China planSolar Energy Blog keeps track of the latest developments in pilot solar power plants in Beijing (10 MW, courtesy of NYSE - listed Yingli Green Energy) Shanghai (1 MW and the biggest already in operation), Ningxia (330 kw, courtesy of Ningxia Power Group) and Shilin (66 MW, courtesy of Yunnan Power Investment New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and the largest plant in China plansolar power plants in Beijing (10 MW, courtesy of NYSE - listed Yingli Green Energy) Shanghai (1 MW and the biggest already in operation), Ningxia (330 kw, courtesy of Ningxia Power Group) and Shilin (66 MW, courtesy of Yunnan Power Investment New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and the largest plant in China planpower plants in Beijing (10 MW, courtesy of NYSE - listed Yingli Green Energy) Shanghai (1 MW and the biggest already in operation), Ningxia (330 kw, courtesy of Ningxia Power Group) and Shilin (66 MW, courtesy of Yunnan Power Investment New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and the largest plant in China planPower Group) and Shilin (66 MW, courtesy of Yunnan Power Investment New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and the largest plant in China planPower Investment New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and the largest plant in China planned).

China is the world's biggest installer of wind, solar and hydroelectric power plants, and last year for the first time it reduced coal burning.

South Australia lit up the distributed energy map yesterday with word that it will build the world's biggest virtual power plant and a separate, sizable commercial solar microgrid.

For all the hype around rooftop solar, big power plants remain the solar workhorse.

It was the biggest quarter ever for solar, which supplied one - third of over 7.3 gigawatts of new power plant capacity added to the grid.

There is a big power storage issue with solar energy, for example if the sun don't shine what would you do with that 2 gigawatt deficit, nuclear plants operate 24/7 not the 10 hours a day sunlight you would get as far north as the Mongolia desert.

A 4.5 percent decline of global electricity from clean energy is the equivalent to about 900 solar farms the size of one of the world's biggest (Topaz, in California)-- or 60 power plants the size of Diablo Canyon.

One of the big challenges here is that wind and solar power plants have a much lower «capacity factor» than plants that run on fuel.

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Where once there was an abandoned industrial site, soon there shall be the biggest urban solar power plant in the USA.

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