Sentences with phrase «centralized utility scale»
«We are seeing large swaths of centralized utility scale solar be procured primarily because of how cost competitive it is,» said Cory Honeyman, who follows the U.S. solar industry for market research firm GTM Research.
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The primary method thus far has been for public or private utilities to construct large scale centralized projects to generate and transmit the electricity required to fuel economies.
This is odd because solar — including photovoltaics, concentrating solar thermal, and solar space & water heating — is a mature, commercialized technology that is already being installed in quantity today, both as centralized utility - scale electricity generation and as distributed, small - to - mid-scale electricity and heat generation.
Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.
The aim of the SPP has been to deploy rooftop solar, smart inverters and large - scale energy storage, as well as to develop communications protocols and centralized utility control for all of those resources.
The cost of utility - scale renewables does not include the cost of transmission and distribution (T&D) upgrades that are sometimes needed to bring power from centralized renewables to homes and businesses.