Sentences with phrase «built solar power plants»

Solel, which has successfully built solar power plants in the Mojave Desert, and eSolar say that they can match the cost of electrical energy from coal today.

Example: Oakland, Calif. - based BrightSource Energy Inc. last month scrapped plans to build a solar power plant on 5,130 acres in the Mojave Desert in southern California after months of protest from environmental groups concerned that the project would threaten important habitat for bighorn sheep.

«If you just build solar power plants that are large enough, they'll generate plenty of energy,» says Hendrix.

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.

Building a solar power plant is complex and site selection requires years of research and planning.

The U.S. should be incentivizing people to install panels on their home and energy companies to build solar power plants.

Suntech last year formed a venture to build solar power plants in the United States and has announced plans to open a factory in the Southwest United States.

South African startup Sun Exchange has launched an international crowdfunding campaign to build a solar power plant with the help of bitcoin micro-investments.

Thus, South African startup Sun Exchange launched an international crowdfunding campaign to build a solar power plant with the help of bitcoin micro-investments.

Not exact matches

A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to do what amounts to new - energy arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.

Solon decided to shut down its Tucson, Ariz., manufacturing plant and focus on building solar farms and generating power.

His company is partnering with Enbridge Inc. to build a flagship utility - scale solar power plant in Vulcan, using revolutionary, high - efficiency panels.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Following on a contract with Georgia Power to build a 200 MW solar plant in Georgia with Series 6 modules, the company has bagged another order from Vectren Energy Delivery to build a 50 MW - AC plant in Indiana with the Series 6.

New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed expanding the Long Island Pine Barrens by 800 acres around the decommissioned Shoreham nuclear power plant, but did not include saving a site in Mastic where a developer wants to build a solar farm.

The Ministry of Finance has signed a three loan agreement with the German government for 40.82 million euros (approximately 176 million Ghana Cedis) of which 22.82 million euros soft loan (approximately 98 million Ghana Cedis) would be use to build a 12megawattz of solar power plant in Kalio in the Upper West Region.

The $ 23.7 million solar project — built on a 50 - acre site leased from the Agahozo - Shalom Youth Village, established to care for children who lost parents to Rwanda's 1990s genocide — was developed by the Dutch - American firm Gigawatt Global with support from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), a Power Africa partner; Scatec Solar ASA of Norway, which engineered and built the solar plant; and government investment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the United Kinsolar project — built on a 50 - acre site leased from the Agahozo - Shalom Youth Village, established to care for children who lost parents to Rwanda's 1990s genocide — was developed by the Dutch - American firm Gigawatt Global with support from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), a Power Africa partner; Scatec Solar ASA of Norway, which engineered and built the solar plant; and government investment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the United KinSolar ASA of Norway, which engineered and built the solar plant; and government investment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the United Kinsolar plant; and government investment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the United Kingdom.

We can't afford to build a coal - fired power plant with CO2 coming out — so can we develop carbon capture and storage technologies, or should we be looking at solar - thermal?

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

And Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) has contracted with Abengoa Solar to build a 280 - megawatt solar thermal power plant — dubbed Solana or «sunny place» — 70 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix on nearly 2,000 acres (800 hectares) of Solar to build a 280 - megawatt solar thermal power plant — dubbed Solana or «sunny place» — 70 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix on nearly 2,000 acres (800 hectares) of solar thermal power plant — dubbed Solana or «sunny place» — 70 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix on nearly 2,000 acres (800 hectares) of land.

Solel claims to be the only company in the world capable of building large scale solar power plants.

One recent study modelled the effects of building a 1 - TW solar power plant in the Mojave desert in California.

PS10 is the first of a number of solar electric power plants to be build in the area that will eventually produce more than 300 megawatts.

Most of that change will have to take place in the developing world, whether replacing China's new coal - fired power plants or building wind, solar or geothermal facilities to power development in African countries.

It employs reclaimed water for its cooling and was built near existing transmission lines on what used to be farmland rather than the pristine desert areas nearby that have provoked opposition to some other planned solar power plants.

President - elect Donald Trump has vowed to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry, but a new analysis suggests cheap natural gas and falling prices for wind and solar power mean there are few places where it makes sense to build a new coal - fired power plant.

At the same time, the Chinese have taken the lead in producing clean energy — from topping the world in the production and installation of solar power to building an entire new series of nuclear power plants, making use of the latest technology.

Questioned about the environmental impacts of building large hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon, she said Brazil can not relinquish hydropower yet — «It would be like giving up fracking in the U.S.» — but she hopes solar and wind power generation will take its place overtime.

That solar - thermal power plant — built by the BrightSource precursor known as Luz — still pumps out 354 megawatts of power from the sun at full capacity.

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.

In the U.S., Xcel Energy plans to build a relatively modest eight - megawatt solar power plant in Colorado next year using similar concentrated solar cells as well as other technology.

Building a huge solar power plant and then saying that «offsets» CO2 emissions from a coal - fired plant is nonsense — the only way to offset CO2 emissions is to bury an equivalent amount of carbon in the ground, permanently.

RE # 27, Paul — to repeat, it still seems to be that if you have $ 4 billion to spend on non-CO2 producing energy sources, the better investment would be to build 40 solar - cell manufacturing facilities at $ 100 million apiece; for example see Honda Solar Factory; this would result in some 1,100 megawatts of solar cell capacity being produced per year, in comparison to a single nuclear power plant (typical power level: 600-1200 MW) being bsolar - cell manufacturing facilities at $ 100 million apiece; for example see Honda Solar Factory; this would result in some 1,100 megawatts of solar cell capacity being produced per year, in comparison to a single nuclear power plant (typical power level: 600-1200 MW) being bSolar Factory; this would result in some 1,100 megawatts of solar cell capacity being produced per year, in comparison to a single nuclear power plant (typical power level: 600-1200 MW) being bsolar cell capacity being produced per year, in comparison to a single nuclear power plant (typical power level: 600-1200 MW) being built.

The Taiwanese company also established an energy company called AUO Energy Taiwan Corp. (AET) to provide work such as installing solar energy systems at power plants, factories, commercial buildings and houses.

Kelp plants are like buildings but very special buildings that are powered completely by solar energy and provide both food and shelter for residents.

One company in the U.S. cut down 5 acres of trees to build a solar farm to power a plant for the production of plastic bags.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

In the film, activist Mark Lynas claims that because wind and solar power are intermittent, we must build 100 percent redundant natural gas backup plants for them.

And yes central power will be another piece (nuclear is great for baseload power... it operates at 90 % capacity factors even if the price of building a new plant has risen by 130 % since 2000) Centralized wind and solar will mature but then there's the transmission issue...

Ramping that up significantly requires years of lead time to build factories & equipment... I've never seen a study that didn't betray an obvious bias, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the time & cost to do all this, and get say 100 GWatts of solar panels out there generating power, is going to be much different from that needed to build 100 nuclear plants.

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

Ramping that up significantly requires years of lead time to build factories & equipment... it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the time & cost to do all this, and get say 100 GWatts of solar panels out there generating power, is going to be much different from that needed to build 100 nuclear plants.»

Rather than handing out solar ovens (which many communities don't embrace in any case), could your plan include helping powerless residents in poor places become solar entrepreneurs (while they wait for a power plant to get built somewhere, someday)?

At least 50,000 homes in SA will be given solar panels and batteries in a scheme (over 4 Years) by Elon Musk's Tesla and the SA Government to build the world's largest virtual power plant.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

People must close zero CO2 nuclear power plants and build new natural gas power plants that make CO2 in order to make up for the unpredictable and intermittent nature of wind and solar power.

Engineers will agnostically build tar sand refineries, or solar power plants, or arctic drilling rigs, or windmills, or lead cooled liquid metal fast breeder reactors.

Installing small solar systems on homes is often much less expensive than building a central power plant, with the added benefit of greatly reducing indoor air pollution from kerosene lamps.

At the same time, utilities are feeling the squeeze from distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, which further threatens to erode their ability to sell more kilowatt - hours of electricity to their customers and build more power plants.

The Pasadena, Calif. - based specialist in solar thermal technology has landed a deal to license technology to Penglai Electric, which in turn will build 2 gigawatts of solar thermal power plants by 2021.