Sentences with phrase «for solar capacity»

The company has been the nation's No. 1 one wind energy provider for the past six years, is ranked fifth among U.S. utilities for solar capacity, and boasts the largest U.S. voluntary green energy program by customer participation.

The state, which is fifth in the nation for solar capacity despite its small size, added 1050 solar jobs in 2017, growing 17 %.

In addition to the solar requirement, the new building standards will offer a credit for solar capacity combined with on - site energy storage.

This is an enormous need for solar capacity: Only in 2015, after years of effort and investment, did the U.S. as a whole reach 20 GW of solar - generating capacity.

Not exact matches

This is good news for renewable energy, reflecting a massive expansion of solar capacity in California in 2016 — but it comes with several caveats.

North Carolina — second only to California in installed capacity — powered 371,000 homes with solar energy this past year, and it is expecting a drop in solar output from 2.5 GW to 0.2 GW for 1.5 hours around the time of the eclipse.

Under all five variations, plans call for the increase in solar as well as the addition of at least eight natural gas - fired facilities with a combined capacity of between 3,500 - 5,000 megawatts, Koonce said.

The initial phase of the project for 7.2 GW of solar capacity will cost $ 5 billion, with $ 1 billion coming from SoftBank's Vision Fund and the rest from project financing, Son said.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

«Timing and strategy shifts for cell and module manufacturing were either as a result of wanting to increase the capacity of the facility or transition our focus to Solar Roof rather than traditional panels,» a Tesla spokesperson says via email.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

And in just the first nine months of 2015, solar accounted for 31 percent of all new electric generating capacity.

After five years of a modest solar market, last Friday Indiana saw the signing of a solar contract for a single project which represents more than twice the capacity that the state has put online in any given year.

The country's renewable capacity has more than tripled from 2008 levels as of 2016, and the solar market alone grew 95 % for the year according to the Solar Energy Industries Associasolar market alone grew 95 % for the year according to the Solar Energy Industries AssociaSolar Energy Industries Association.

First Solar also reports that more than 90 % of the front - end tools for Series 6 production have been installed at its factory in Kulim, Malaysia and expects 1.2 GW of annual capacity to come online in Q3 2018 at the plant.

Solar projects assume illustrative capacity factors of 26 % — 30 % for Australia, 26 % — 30 % for Brazil, 22 % — 23 % for India, 27 % — 29 % for South Africa, 16 % — 18 % for Japan and 13 % — 16 % for Northern Europe.

Yet instead of giving up, First Solar kept investing in efforts to improve its solar technology, and with its unparalleled strength in the large - project construction business, the solar giant still has plenty of capacity for future grSolar kept investing in efforts to improve its solar technology, and with its unparalleled strength in the large - project construction business, the solar giant still has plenty of capacity for future grsolar technology, and with its unparalleled strength in the large - project construction business, the solar giant still has plenty of capacity for future grsolar giant still has plenty of capacity for future growth.

For example, assuming no government policy changes, solar could hit 316 GW of installed capacity by 2050.

For example, Cuomo's NY Sun Initiative commits the state to building 3000 megawatts of solar capacity.

On 20 March this year, for example, a solar eclipse knocked out two - thirds of Germany's solar generation capacity for about an hour.

Those designed to quickly stop and start a car's petrol engine to improve fuel efficiency need a quick burst of power, but for smoothing a domestic solar panel's output, capacity might be more important than speed.

Under a request for proposal announced yesterday, Austin Energy said it would consider acquiring the solar power under power purchase agreements with independent solar firms, or it could own the solar capacity outright.

Even as the government is cutting back on once - generous subsidies for the technology, the country is expected to reach a total solar installed capacity of 52,000 MW by 2017 or 2018, according to Environment Minister Peter Altmaier.

For example, EIA projected that solar capacity in the United States would double between 2014 and 2026, while the current deployment trajectory puts solar energy on track to double by 2016.

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

Praise for a «level of predictability» Market projections from SEIA and partner GTM Research indicate the U.S. solar market will add roughly 72 gigawatts of new capacity between 2016 and 2020, pushing the country's net solar capacity to more than 100 GW, or roughly 3.5 percent of all electricity produced in the United States.

As of March, according to USAID figures, Power Africa has helped close deals accounting for 4,100 MW of electricity in places like Rwanda, where East Africa's largest solar array began sending 8.5 MW of electricity to the national grid late last year, boosting the country's electricity generation capacity by 6 percent.

The researchers also constructed a full 12 - volt system made of three mobile phone batteries of 3100 millliamp - hour capacity each, with a 5 - watt LED lamp and a small solar panel, for less than $ 25.

The government has set a target for installed solar power generating capacity to reach 15 gigawatts by 2015 and wind power capacity to hit 100 GW, China National Radio reported, citing an announcement from the National Energy Administration.

«It's enough for 7.5 hours to produce energy with full capacity of 50 megawatts,» says Sven Moormann, a spokesman for Solar Millennium, AG, the German solar company that developed the Andasol pSolar Millennium, AG, the German solar company that developed the Andasol psolar company that developed the Andasol plant.

«It's important to note that the article doesn't address the direct and immediate impact of forest burning, such as emissions of black carbon [considered a major driver of global warming owing to its high capacity for absorbing solar radiation].

For a solar thermal plant, this results in higher capacity at lower operating costs.

Those kinds of prices, guaranteed for between 10 and 20 years, have helped fuel a surge in renewable energy development in Japan, leading to the addition of nearly 11,000 MW of solar capacity since 2012 while an additional 72,000 MW remains in the development pipeline, according to METI estimates.

Thanks to China's Golden Sun program, which subsidizes pilot projects for solar power generation, the nation's installed solar power capacity grew more than 300 % from 2010 to 2011 to reach about 3 GW.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

Although final totals are not quite in, estimates indicate more solar capacity was added in 2016 than for its rivals

Silicon wafer — based solar cells, which account for 90 percent of installed solar capacity, are more efficient, converting up to 20 percent of the sun's energy, whereas thin - film cells generally convert only about 10 percent.

The authors say that as energy storage density improves — and with their work it is now approaching the capacity of lithium batteries — applications for the new technology include such possibilities as solar pads that collect energy from the sun by day, then store it for heating food, living spaces, clothing or blankets at night.

A draft report on an Energy Department workshop on solar power's future last year said that preliminary analysis suggests that if solar power could hit a $ 1 per watt target for installed systems by 2020, one - third of the current cost, total U.S. solar generating capacity could rise to 5 percent of the nation's total.

Geothermal today accounts for just over 3,000 megawatts of U.S. generation, compared with 28,200 megawatts of capacity for wind - generated power and 9,183 megawatts of capacity for solar.

These images are complementary to space - based telescopes, like NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which takes images primarily in ultraviolet light and does not have the capacity for the high - speed imagery that can be captured aboard the WB - 57F.

California accounts for roughly half of all U.S. installed utility - scale PV solar with more than 2,700 MW of capacity, followed by Arizona with 960 MW (17 percent) and North Carolina with 340 MW (6 percent), according to EIA.

Since 2010, EIA said, U.S. solar capacity increased 418 percent from 2,326 megawatts, accounting for 0.2 percent of total U.S. electric generation, to today's 12,057 MW, or 1.13 percent of U.S. generation.

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Results: High capacity, safe batteries are needed for efficient hybrid or electrical vehicles and for storing and releasing electricity from intermittent power sources like wind turbines and solar panels.

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