Sentences with phrase «for solar farms»

Apart from feed - in tariffs, only the tender - system is seen as viable and will be tested for solar farms in the next three years.

Also shared with participants was insight into the concept of solar orchards, which aim to optimize the land used for solar farms to regenerate the land.

This study provides scientists with the information they need to better predict, manipulate and control those behaviors, whether in batteries for solar farms or catalysts for bio-fuel production.

Today they're mostly being bought for solar farms in regions where other sources of power are very expensive — on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, for example, and the island of Ta'u in American Samoa.

Canadian Solar opened a new plant in London, Ontario to manufacture solar PV modules and power stations for solar farms.

He said he's also «committed» to working with Cuomo staff to find an alternative site for the Mastic solar farm so the developer doesn't have to bulldoze some 60 acres, including 40 acres approved by the town for the solar farm earlier this month.

National Grid, which acquired the 800 - plus acres around the Shoreham plant when it bought KeySpan in 2007, and NextEra have offered to contribute 300 acres on the north end of the parcel for preservation if they can develop 350 acres for the solar farm to the south.

State and local officials toured an 800 - acre forest around the shuttered Shoreham nuclear power plant in an effort to preserve the site slated for a solar farm on Tuesday, April 18, 2017.

Haber, who is making a second run for the seat, released a list of policy proposal for the environment, including upgrading infrastructure, developing green job training, identify open space for solar farms and create a program for the safe disposal of medical waste.

Riverhead leaders actually based their proposal on Southold's, which determined that the town's two industrial zones were the best locations for solar farms — keeping agriculturally - zoned land out of the mix.

The field near the Ticonderoga Car Wash was chosen because the district didn't have enough contiguous property for a solar farm, school superintendent Dr. John McDonald Jr. said.

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 benefits.

That includes repurposing coal power plants for solar farms.

If low energy density of solar is a problem in my home state of California, where we have large deserts available for solar farms, imagine how much more of a problem it is in South Korea, which has far more people per square kilometer.

«A 500 - square - metre parabolic dish [to be built in Whyalla, South Australia]- that's bigger than an average house block - consisting of 424 mirrored panels will be erected over coming months as a prototype for a solar farm planned for Whyalla, South Australia.

«It's both a powerful symbol and great progress to see a contract offered for a solar farm that will be built on the land once occupied by the Nanticoke coal - fired power plant, once Canada's top greenhouse gas polluter.»

I began following solar closely in 2014 when people across the world marveled how the record low price for a solar farm fell below 6 cents per kWh.

A great place for a solar farm is out in a barren area that isn't productive for anything else, but has an abundance of sunlight.

Reaching that level shouldn't be difficult, given the low prices the utility is seeing for solar farms backed by energy storage devices.

The company last week signed a power purchase agreement for a solar farm in southern California.

However, as far as your first suggestion (about how we have lots of flat land to use for solar farms): we do, but mostly far from the big population centres; and if you do cover half decent land with solar farms, it's wasted for other purposes.

So instead of applying for a solar farm, you'd apply for a solar farm with battery storage included.