Sentences with phrase «huge solar power plants»

Plans for huge solar power plants have been drawn up in the US, Spain and Portugal, and it seems barely a month goes by without a new wind farm springing up.

Building a huge solar power plant and then saying that «offsets» CO2 emissions from a coal - fired plant is nonsense — the only way to offset CO2 emissions is to bury an equivalent amount of carbon in the ground, permanently.

Not exact matches

From solar panels on the roofs of giants buildings of corporations to large wind farms and huge hydroelectric power plants, the evidence of renewable energy acceptance are sprouting sporadically around the land.

The company uses proprietary solar technology to build huge electricity and thermal power plants.

The EF, in turn, is used by EPA to justify all its climate regulations, including its ultra-expensive so - called «Clean Power Plan» (CPP -RCB- requiring that many coal plants be replaced with wind and solar - generated electric power at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsiPower Plan» (CPP -RCB- requiring that many coal plants be replaced with wind and solar - generated electric power at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsipower at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsidies.

The huge projected expansion in solar water and space heating in industrial countries could close some existing coal - fired power plants and reduce natural gas use, as solar water heaters replace electric and gas water heaters.

India has very ambitious projects underway to build huge solar plants right now but it is a very poor country with a GDP per capita 3 % that of the US, just $ 1700 per year, so it's hardly unreasonable that they get help to transition away from coal fired power.

I did a lot of math on this and honestly, the ONLY way I could find to reasonably integrate large amounts of wind / solar... is to convert most of it into hydrogen, storing WEEKS WORTH in vast, metal lined, bored tunnels (or just huge arrays of tanks) near conventional gas fired turbine power plants... and JUST BURN IT in the power plant as fuel to buffer out the remainder of the wind / solar that's actually providing electricity.

South Africa already hit the headlines for its ambitious plan to build a huge 5GW solar thermal power plant that could single - handedly provide 10 % of the nation's electricity needs, and for pioneering promising solar power

Last summer, we wrote about Japan's plan to build huge floating solar power plants on reservoirs around the country in order to meet its ambitious renewable energy goals in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.

The $ 1 billion line of credit, if exploited for power plants, could give SunPower a huge advantage over competitors like First Solar.