Sentences with phrase «by solar farms»

One day, power generated by solar farms and wind turbines could be used to drive this transformation.

In early October, an auction in Saudi Arabia for new electric generation was won by a solar farm pledging to deliver electrons for less than three cents a kilowatt hour, the cheapest price ever paid for electricity from any source in any place.

Thanks to the existing transmission lines, the clean power generated by the solar farm could be sent to both the Arizonian and Californian markets.

Both St. Peter's Health Partners and the Center for Disability Services have signed power purchase agreements with Sunstream Hudson, which will deliver power generated by the solar farm to National Grid.

Not exact matches

Before 2009, there were no solar farms and only a handful of wind and geothermal plants on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

It is one of many solar farms that have sprung up around North Carolina, transforming a state long battered by global offshoring into the second - largest generator of solar electricity after California.

At the Wakefield solar farm, the five - megawatt project on the Vinson family's land, the cells that collect solar energy are imported — they were manufactured by JA Solar, a Chinese company, which makes cells and panels in China and Malasolar farm, the five - megawatt project on the Vinson family's land, the cells that collect solar energy are imported — they were manufactured by JA Solar, a Chinese company, which makes cells and panels in China and Malasolar energy are imported — they were manufactured by JA Solar, a Chinese company, which makes cells and panels in China and MalaSolar, a Chinese company, which makes cells and panels in China and Malaysia.

By Staci Davidson L << Snyder's - Lance is committed to sustainability, and the company has opened a solar farm adjacent to one of its manufacturing plants to help reduce energy usage.

Conuco Solar will ensure that anyone can still have access to clean, renewable energy by essentially renting space at our solar farm, rather than having to set up their panels at home or their place of business where space may be limSolar will ensure that anyone can still have access to clean, renewable energy by essentially renting space at our solar farm, rather than having to set up their panels at home or their place of business where space may be limsolar farm, rather than having to set up their panels at home or their place of business where space may be limited.

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.

Grand Island residents are already surrounded by water, but could they someday be surrounded by solar panel farms?

The Cuomo administration's state budget bill includes a measure that would expand the core Pine Barrens by around 800 acres in Shoreham, officials said, but omits a controversial parcel in Mastic favored by legislators on which a developer has sought to build a solar farm.

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.

The additional uses, which include commercial solar farms, storage warehouses and other structures that some consider essential to modern agriculture, were approved by the Suffolk County Legislature on properties for which Suffolk has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase «development rights.»

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a solar farm developer looking to build the largest in the Capital Region, Scenic Hudson extends its reach in preserving farmland, and telemedicine's promise to let patients talk to medical experts by smart phone or computer.

In his book The Vertical Farm, Columbia environmental health professor Dickson Despommier argues that cities of the future might feed themselves by creating farms inside enormous, glass - walled skyscrapers where every floor is a solar - powered greenhouse.

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.

But there are times when solar and wind farms generate more electricity than is needed by consumers.

Steve: So, we are talking about a whole lot of square miles and the estimates in the article are [that] by 2050, you could generate 69 percent of all United States electricity and 35 percent of the total energy requirements of the country, strictly with these solar farms out in the Southwest.

The agency is working with developer Apex Clean Energy to meet 100 percent of Fort Hood's electricity needs with onsite solar PV panels that are complemented by additional energy wired in from a wind farm in Floyd County, more than 300 miles northwest of the facility.

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 percenBy 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 percenby a full 20 percent.

Plans for huge solar power plants have been drawn up in the US, Spain and Portugal, and it seems barely a month goes by without a new wind farm springing up.

In other words, the types of solar farms previously dominated by traditional silicon photovoltaics now used to generate electricity from sunshine in states like Arizona and California.

In this scenario, Indiana farm businesses and homes would have about an 84 percent chance of saving money by generating electricity from solar rather than coal power.

And while it's relatively easy to cut emissions from electricity by switching to solar, reducing emissions from farming is a tougher nut to...

His students subsequently published papers on reducing the variability of wind energy by interconnecting wind farms; on integrating solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power into the grid; and on wave power.

The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar power tower varieties.

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.

Putting that plan into action, Common Ground routinely plants trees with its students, teaches them about sustainability by gardening and farming right on the school grounds, and recently unveiled their new sustainable building which uses geothermal, solar, and a rainwater treatment system.

Or, perhaps we'll come up with electric farming equipment, vehicles, etc powered by something other than FFs to avoid these problems — perhaps solar, fusion, fission, etc..

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:

Global Energy Interconnection (GEI), a vision of a world power grid, was outlined by the State Grid Corporation of China («State Grid») It would be based upon a global network of Ultra High Voltage power lines connecting global power generation including massive wind farm at the North Pole and solar power from equatorial areas to energy users around the world.

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.

This move is spurred in part by concerns about solar farms destroying the countryside.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

The fourth item should be more ambitious, and that is a plan to set up modern industrial and agricultural systems that are entirely powered by renewable energy — for example, fossil fuel free farms run off solar - powered water pumps and worked with electric tractors, charged with wind and or solar.

Seen over at Designboom and created by the People's Industrial Design Office — the design arm of Beijing firm People's Architecture Office — during a three - day design hackathon in Seoul, South Korea, the Bike Share Farm is a solar - powered and bike - propelled mobile hydroponic garden, inspired by the bike sharing concept.

Our land's highest, best use is probably a mixture of solar farms in the driest and poorest areas which concentrate water by runoff onto neighboring land used either to return to nature and grow grass (with cows optional) to sequester carbon by building soil and / or be periodically harvested to provide feed for cellulosic ethanol.

Retired teacher notices that plants are dying from lack of sunlight, absorbed by cancer - causing solar farms

I've also seen solar farms that were useless because they were snow covered — or alternatively — blocked by a massive dust storm or covered with the dust laid down by that storm.

The only things never objected to by them is wind & solar farms, who can destroy as much of the environment as they please without ever getting any stick from the NGO's.

Where I live, we have a quarter of our private dwellings have solar panels on the roof and, more importantly, a quarter of our grid power is supplied by wind farms.

According to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), between the months of July and September last year, 50 per cent of the country's electricity was produced primarily by wind and solar farms, as well as wood and nuclear power plants.

«In the project Solar Poland you will find farms that are committed to the production of fine foods (organic and traditional) as well as to taking a caring attitude to the environment, through maximizing the economic and ecological use of renewable energy sources in their homes and businesses... By staying at a Solar Poland farmhouse you will play your part in supporting a clean and green future — helping to make Polish countryside an even more pleasant environment for us and for future generations.»

In «Update: German Plan Would Nix Subsidy For Solar On Farm Lands» by Eric Savitz for BARRON»S Tech Trader Daily, Hapoalim Securities Senior Alternative Energy Analyst Gordon L. Johnson II:

Dubbed the Amargosa Farm Road Solar Project, it is the eighth project approved by the Secretary since early October and is expected to stimulate Nevada's economy by creating both temporary and permanent clean energy jobs.

Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in China, the largest solar farm in the world as of February 2017, captured by the satellite LandsSolar Park in China, the largest solar farm in the world as of February 2017, captured by the satellite Landssolar farm in the world as of February 2017, captured by the satellite Landsat 8.

Consider that the share of electricity the world gets from clean sources of energy over the last 10 years declined by the equivalent of 21 Bruce nuclear power plants, which powers Toronto, which produces about the same amount of electricity as 900 Topaz solar farms.

The largest of the bunch, a 1 - megawatt solar farm in Folsom, California, will cover nearly six acres and will be one of the largest ground - mounted systems not owned by a utility.