Sentences with phrase «few solar companies»

I actually looked into quite a few solar companies before making my decision 1.

I looked into a few solar companies and NRG was able to give me the best financing.

Since we offer our clients a variety of financing options, we are one of the few solar companies in the state to proactively register with the NJ Department of Banking and Insurance, license Number L065467.

Not exact matches

Musk and Buffett see the energy and transportation sectors changing in similar ways, and, over the past few years, their companies have increasingly competed with each other over both solar energy and electric cars.

The company's sales were down 39 % year - over-year due in part to shuttered lines and in part to fewer project sales, but despite $ 18 million in restructuring and asset impairment charges, First Solar still pulled off a positive operating margin and a net profit of $ 52 million.

Meanwhile, the company's solar installations have dropped nearly 40 % in the past few months, as it continues to transition away from the original lease - financing model Lyndon pioneered and more toward loans (which have leapt from representing 2 % of its sales to 31 %).

On a frigid evening, days before Christmas, nearly 100 people braved icy roads to attend a SolarCity job fair at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, on the slight chance they might qualify for one of the few hundred positions available at the company's solar factory.

It's just not the kind we're used to, because, until only a few years ago, the thought that a commercial company (not the government, not nasa) would lay claim to the business of sending stuff into the solar system — well, it seemed nearly impossible.

According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the Chinese government in various forms has offered to loan solar companies like JA Solar, LDK Solar and Yingli Solar more than $ 30 billion in the past few years, although only a fraction of that money has actually been borrsolar companies like JA Solar, LDK Solar and Yingli Solar more than $ 30 billion in the past few years, although only a fraction of that money has actually been borrSolar, LDK Solar and Yingli Solar more than $ 30 billion in the past few years, although only a fraction of that money has actually been borrSolar and Yingli Solar more than $ 30 billion in the past few years, although only a fraction of that money has actually been borrSolar more than $ 30 billion in the past few years, although only a fraction of that money has actually been borrowed.

Solar companies have been searching for some time for materials that are more efficient, cheaper to produce and use fewer raw materials than silicon.

Fewer blackouts and money savings aside, equipping homes with smart energy systems could allow electric companies to switch to using more energy from renewable sources like wind and solar.

I'm also the sales manager for a solar energy company and I talk to a lot of people, very few of them get it!

A few months ago I profiled Solar Mosaic, an Oakland solar finance company that is connecting building owners with small change investors to fund solar installatSolar Mosaic, an Oakland solar finance company that is connecting building owners with small change investors to fund solar installatsolar finance company that is connecting building owners with small change investors to fund solar installatsolar installations.

In the meantime, I'll post some links to NREL, a few technology resources, and the web sites of key solar thermal companies (just for example) so people can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

Not that long ago, it was news when a company installed a few megawatts of solar at individual locations.

Elsewhere the growth of international technologies in Europe and China (China allocated $ 30 billion to the top five solar energy companies in 2010) particularly, grew by 50 % per annum a few years ago, before the recession cut back some of the growth.

Only 24 months ago there were fewer than 50 companies who had publicly announced they were engaged in digital transformation of wind energy, solar power and / or energy storage, but today there are over 200.

Photovoltaic panels have plummeted in price over the last few years while companies such as First Solar and SunPower have devised strategies for building large - scale power plants with technology that in the past might have ended up on roofs or in small, ground - mounted projects.

They offered no specific predictions of solar storms, but they hope to formulate early warnings that will give power companies, satellite operators and others on and around Earth a few days to prepare.

Quoted in Solar Power World, John Drummond, applications engineer at inverter company Chint Power Systems, says his company «expect [s] these kinds of advanced inverter functions to be required in the entire country in the next few years.»

And the solar companies aren't looking to the Manufacturing Belt just to save a few dollars here and there, or simply out of a sense of altruism — the connection to automobile manufacturing is closer than it appears.

Meanwhile, Tesla's near - completion of the 129MWh Hornsdale Wind Farm battery comes as the company still struggles to get more than a few dozen Model 3 EVs off the production line a month and solar install figures have fallen dramatically since Tesla's takeover of SolarCity.

After doing my research and narrowing down to a few local solar companies, I decided to go with LA Solar because of their professionalism and reasonable prisolar companies, I decided to go with LA Solar because of their professionalism and reasonable priSolar because of their professionalism and reasonable pricing.

I'm finding lots of claims that this «grid parity» will be achieved in the next few years, and even one company, First Solar, that claims to be already at grid parity with a 12 MW plant in Nevada completed last year.

It may not be easy for consumers unfamiliar with the solar industry to draw conclusions from the list of top installers above but because we here at Solar - Estimate run the «largest solar quoting marketplace in America» we deal with quite a few of these companies and so are aware of their ownership structure, geographic coverage and their solar industry to draw conclusions from the list of top installers above but because we here at Solar - Estimate run the «largest solar quoting marketplace in America» we deal with quite a few of these companies and so are aware of their ownership structure, geographic coverage and their Solar - Estimate run the «largest solar quoting marketplace in America» we deal with quite a few of these companies and so are aware of their ownership structure, geographic coverage and their solar quoting marketplace in America» we deal with quite a few of these companies and so are aware of their ownership structure, geographic coverage and their size.

By Vic Shao The past few weeks of sunny weather have been paying off, literally, for California's solar companies.

There was a rally «for solar jobs» at the Statehouse, and it was classic astroturf — a few hundred employees of Sunrun (a large solar PV leasing / installation company) and smaller solar firms, plus a smattering of actual energy activists.

Though Wall Street and investment banks have been getting hit hard by public criticism over the last few months, most wind farm projects and solar panel companies will look for private investment to generate an upswing of output — and if investors aren't willing to invest, the equity side of renewable energy deals could find itself in a complete standstill.

It's the same model the two companies used to put solar on 53 stores in Ohio a few years ago.

The report claims that Walmart's renewable energy projects are «far too small relative to the huge scale of Walmart's operations» and that the company's clean energy deployment is only in «relatively few» states, with about three - fourths of its solar installations in just two states (and more than half are just in California), and none at all in «large swaths of the country, including including many of the most coal - intensive states — the states that would benefit most from clean power.»

«I think it makes economic and financial sense for these tech companies,» said Devashree Saha, an energy policy analyst at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. «As wind and solar markets have grown in the past few years, the cost of building and running renewable energy projects, along with the price of renewables, has come down substantially.»