Sentences with phrase «by use of solar energy»

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This is the first time a utility has contracted for a system that stores and releases solar energy after sunset, and will help KIUC meet its goal of using renewable resources to generate half of Kaua`i's electricity by the end of 2019.

In Pennsylvania, for example, a well - known, big box retailer uses solar equipment financed by PNC Energy Capital to provide a majority of the power required to operate five of its stores.

Tesla's shipment will help homes, businesses, schools and hospitals on the island make use of their existing solar panel installations by providing energy storage.

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

Though green - energy organizations are facing hurdles in getting access to capital markets, wind plant or solar power builders, who are producing green energy, are highly benefitted with enormous profit rates by the use of this efficient trading platform.

«A key component of this tariff is that Staff doesn't have all the information and analysis they would need to calculate these values in a precise way, so they are using proxies instead as a first step toward more granular compensation,» notes a statement by Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

Whereas modern science and technology offer immense new potentialities in relation to nature such as use of solar energy, and improvements in medical science, yet overall nature is being badly exploited by the present pattern of development.

The matter used, of course, is found in sources containing captured solar energy which have been created by the chlorophyll function of plant life.

«We don't want to produce any energy that we do not use ourselves because this program is about sustainability, not about getting on the latest bandwagon of green by creating solar energy as a hot commodity.

The new brewery cuts energy use by 50 % per barrel through thoughtful building design, solar lighting and the recycling of process waste streams like water and heat.

The US president used his state of the union address yesterday to announce plans to cut the use of petrol by 20 per cent in the next decade and diversify the US» energy sources by investing in clean coal, solar and wind power.

The building will feature over 80,000 feet of mixed - use manufacturing and commercial office space and will be powered by solar, geothermal and wind energy to produce as much energy as it consumes on an annual basis.

Gail Markel, Executive Director of New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA), said: «NYSEIA is grateful for the leadership provided by Governor Paterson and Assemblyman Alessi in supporting and encouraging the use of solar energy on Long Island.&rSolar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA), said: «NYSEIA is grateful for the leadership provided by Governor Paterson and Assemblyman Alessi in supporting and encouraging the use of solar energy on Long Island.&Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA), said: «NYSEIA is grateful for the leadership provided by Governor Paterson and Assemblyman Alessi in supporting and encouraging the use of solar energy on Long Island.&rsolar energy on Long Island.&energy on Long Island.»

Georgetown, roughly 30 miles north of Austin, announced last month that it would meet its 100 percent clean energy goal using a combination of resources, including 150 MW of solar energy provided by SunEdison (ClimateWire, March 26).

Officials said the new solar power will account for a «major component» of Austin Energy's recently adopted Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan, which calls for meeting 55 percent of all delivered electricity using renewable resources by 2025.

Shen says, «This could have great applications in energy, and especially in solar thermophotovoltaics» — harnessing solar energy by using it to heat a material, which in turn radiates light of a particular color.

The draft bill would require utilities above a certain size to supply 25 percent of their power from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass energy by 2025, although efficiency measures could be used to meet a fifth of the target.

With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight into electricity using CIGS thin film solar cells on flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.

If this voltage is generated by sunlight in a solar cell, then you could store solar energy by generating hydrogen gas.This is because hydrogen is a versatile medium of storing and using «chemical energy.»

Such initiatives include research focused on more efficient production of gaseous hydrogen fuel by using solar energy to break water down into its components of hydrogen and oxygen.

«Tools used by developers to predict energy yields of solar panels and plan solar systems are often expensive and inaccurate,» says first author Ian Marius Peters, a research associate at the MIT Photovoltaics Research Laboratory (@MITPVLab).

We could more than halve our energy use by increasing the use of technology like compact fluorescent lightbulbs and passive solar and geothermal heating.

The «not in my back yard» opposition to renewable energy systems is still a reality, the researchers said, and there are still some environmental concerns about virtually any form of energy, whether it's birds killed by wind turbine rotors, fish losses in hydroelectric dams or chemical contaminants from use of solar energy.

Assuming that a solar panel is made of silicon — by far the most common solar panel material — and is installed in sunny southern Europe, a solar panel made in China would take about 20 to 30 percent longer to produce enough energy to cancel out the energy used to make it.

Meyer, a chemist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Energy Frontier Research Center in Solar Fuels, noticed that two separate groups of researchers working on two separate parts of the photosynthetic reaction happened to be using the same class of catalyst — ones with an atom of the metal ruthenium surrounded by organic molecules.

Professor Colin Osborne, lead author of the study and Associate Director of the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, said: «Photosynthesis powers most life on Earth because it converts solar energy into sugars which are used by plants to grow.

By beaming a huge solar - powered laser at a vast ultralight sail attached to a spacecraft, we can use the energy of our own sun to accelerate the rocket to great speeds.

By Aamir Saeed ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Amid a worsening energy crisis, Pakistan has approved the use of grid - connected solar energy, rooftop solar installations and mortgage financing for home solar panels to boost uptake of clean energy in the country.

Their ultimate goal is to find ways to use solar energy — either directly or via electricity generated by solar cells — to convert the end products of hydrocarbon combustion, water and carbon dioxide, back into a carbon - based fuel.

In the demonstration project «Agrophotovoltaic — Resource Efficient Land Use» (APV - Resola)» led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, solar modules for electricity production are installed directly above crops covering an area of one third hecSolar Energy Systems ISE, solar modules for electricity production are installed directly above crops covering an area of one third hecsolar modules for electricity production are installed directly above crops covering an area of one third hectare.

The project is funded up to $ 4 million by the Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative, which aims to drive down solar energy production costs and pave the way to widespread use of concentrating solar power and photovolEnergy's SunShot Initiative, which aims to drive down solar energy production costs and pave the way to widespread use of concentrating solar power and photovolenergy production costs and pave the way to widespread use of concentrating solar power and photovoltaics.

In 2015, a team led by the University of Michigan's Sharon Glotzer used high - performance computing at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] to study melting in two - dimensional (2 - D) systems, a problem that could yield insights into surface interactions in materials important to technologies like solar panels, as well as into the mechanism behind three - dimensional melting.

By doing so, they demonstrated the utility of solar energy for biomass conversion as well as the feasibility of using an oxidative biomass conversion reaction as an anode reaction in a hydrogen - forming PEC.

He also looked at the tree - ring 14C record, using the hypothesis that in the absence of solar activity the high energy cosmic rays which produce 14C in the atmosphere penetrate to circumterrestrial space in greater fluxes, being less repelled by the solar wind.

These findings, published recently by the high - impact journal Nanoscale («Tessellated gold nanostructures from Au144 (SCH2CH2Ph) 60 molecular precursors and their use in organic solar cell enhancement»), represent a game - changing innovation that holds the potential to take solar power mainstream and dramatically decrease the world's dependence on traditional, resource - based sources of energy, says Giovanni Fanchini from Western's Faculty of Science.

Hosts nearly 30 megawatts of solar power, with plans to double it by 2015 and further increase renewable energy use to 125MW by 2020.

AU is also moving aggressively into solar energy, part of a trend in the technology industry caused by a global rise in electricity use and high oil prices.

Both deal with humanity expanding into space not onto different planets, but rather in O'Neill cylinders floating freely in space that use rotation to generate an approximate feeling of gravity, and both have these colonies eventually being used as weapons, by taking advantage of the plentiful solar energy resources of outer space.

With the use of small sunflower shaped lights, powered by solar energy they will be able to interact with the art and view the full wonder of the artist's Northern Lights.

In post # 40, CobblyWorlds points to a recent analysis by Perovich et al. (2008), which uses calculations of solar energy input to the Arctic Ocean to assess the melting last summer.

A recent study [footnote 1] shows that even the Atlantic region of the United States can achieve electric energy self - sufficiency, using a combination of wind and solar, aided by storage which is feasible today.

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.

Localization will help solve required transitions from high fossil fuel and nuclear energy costs and global problems created by Peak Oil.This will be done by moving quickly to mass public and commercial use of economic and greener energy supplies from solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy sources.

Apple plans to build more than 200 megawatts of solar projects in the northern, eastern and southern grid regions of China, which will produce the equivalent of the energy used by more by than 265,000 Chinese homes in a year and will begin to offset the energy used in Apple's supply chain.

By using fossil fuels we are essentially mining the accumulated solar energy of millions of years.

The Sport weighs just 9 pounds, is built to be durable, and is small enough to be portable, which makes it a great option for an alternate cookstove for those of us who want to take a «baby step off the grid» by using solar energy for cooking.

The home improvement giant will add nearly 50,000 solar panels to new sites in five states in a push to meet its alternative - energy use goals of 135 MW by 2020.

«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.»

Denmark, Spain and Portugal have relatively high renewable energy shares, driven by use of wind and solar.

Because PV panels are able to capture more solar energy when they are pointed directly at the sun, installers may configure systems to optimize output by adjusting the orientation and tilt of a system, or by using mechanisms that track the sun as it traverses the sky.