Sentences with phrase «kilowatt photovoltaic»

The 9 kilowatt photovoltaic system on the south - facing roof supplies the site - generated electricity.

After an absence of nearly 30 years, the Obama administration has announced that a 6.3 kilowatt photovoltaic installation of the «typical size for an American house,» is back on the White House roof and generating power.

At its February 17 meeting, the Woodstock Town Board announced its intent to award a bid to OnForce Solar to build a 603 kilowatt photovoltaic array at the wastewater treatment plant on Route 212, east of the main hamlet.

Not exact matches

Today photovoltaic cells can not compete with electricity in terms of price per kilowatt - hour.

Even if we fail to find the miracles that allow us to make and then transport hundreds of gigawatts of power over 3,000 miles at pennies per kilowatt - hour, and even if we can never find photovoltaics that are as cheap as dirt, the enterprise of trying to do it will push our science and our engineering so far forward that we'll generate a cornucopia of unexpected new technologies that will be the basis of vast new industries.

When it is sunny outside, the process reverses, and electricity from rooftop photovoltaic cells, which can generate up to 2.6 kilowatts of power at high noon, flows outward.

With an installed power of 194 kilowatts, the photovoltaic array can supply 62 four - person households with electricity.

Borenstein took his analysis a step further by calculating the discounted net present value (a financial tool to calculate the value of a dollar in the future compared to its value now) of power produced by a 10 kilowatt solar photovoltaic system and then compared that to the cost of installing and operating such a system over its lifetime.

Present photovoltaic installations cost about $ 6,000 per kilowatt.

A Fraunhofer study comparing annual energy yields per square meter has found that solar thermal collectors will produce on average about three times as many kilowatt hours from the same amount of space as photovoltaic solar.

Less than four months after proposing the construction of a solar farm to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation, Solarflair Energy and Westboro 21 South Street Inc. are jut about finished building the Milk Street solar farm — a 240 - kilowatt (KW) photovoltaic (PV) solar energy installation in Westboro Massachusetts.

Rooftop solar photovoltaic panels generate more than 340,000 kilowatt - hours per year.

On average over the last two years a complete 4.2 - kilowatt solar photovoltaic system has cost about $ 16,128 for the system and installation before any incentives.

DOE's own Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates a five - year - out (2022) cost of utility - scale solar photovoltaic of 7.37 cents per kilowatt hour (2016 dollars)-- and 5.81 cents per kilowatt hour after applying the Investment Tax Credit subsidy.

By then, they hope, photovoltaic power that could now cost consumers as much as $ 1.50 a kilowatt hour might be down to a competitive price around 15 cents a kilowatt hour.

Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 - kilowatt solar photovoltaic panel system, which will be integrated with a 750 - kilowatt energy storage facility that can store 2 million watt - hours of energy using batteries — enough to power 100 average homes for a year.

That auction, offering the chance to build 300 megawatts of solar capacity, was so oversold that it attracted bids totaling 2,200 megawatts, at rates well below the 7.04 rupees per kilowatt - hour that the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission has determined is the threshold of viability for solar photovoltaic projects.

Comparatively, fossil fuels are still dramatically cheaper than solar - based energies, with photovoltaic energy costing anything from 35 - to - 50 cents per kilowatt - hour, compared with coal and natural gas at 5 - to - 6 cents per kilowatt - hour.

Once photovoltaic energies get down to levels of around 10 cents, says Gray, «large numbers of consumers will start to buy in, driving the per - kilowatt price down even further.

Funding for Commonwealth Solar II, providing rebates for small residential and commercial photovoltaic (PV) systems (5 kilowatts or less), will come from $ 1 million per quarter in existing funds from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust.

Assuming that our photovoltaic cells had a 100 % conversion rate, and we had unlimited, uniform Phoenix AZ sunshine everywhere in the U.S. we would need (3.9 × 10 ^ 12 kilowatt - hours / year) / (2389 kilowatt - hours / m ^ 2 / year) = 1.6 x10 ^ 6 km ^ 2 of photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity used in the U.S in 2008.

In addition, a relatively small amount of uranium can produce a relatively large amount of energy, helping the overall energy cycle of an online nuclear plant to release no more carbon dioxide per kilowatt - hour than solar power, which must account for the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells.

Rooftop solar water heaters have a capacity of 0.7 kilowatts per square meter and a capacity factor similar to rooftop photovoltaics (22 percent); nominal capacity from Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op.

Later this year, Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas will begin building a 500 - kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (PV) energy system at the assembly plant.

In celebration of Earth Day, Gates & Co. ordered ice cream and flipped the switch on 31,000 square feet of photovoltaics, generating 480 Kilowatts, enough to power 300 homes or 1066 wintel desktops with CRT monitors, at its new Silicon Valley HQ.

Bloomberg says the LCOE for photovoltaic systems is about US$ 0.10 per solar kilowatt hour, compared with a current levelized cost for coal in Asia of about US$ 0.07.

Germany is by far the world's biggest solar energy market thanks to its «feed - in» tariffs, which pay a government - guaranteed premium of up to â «¬ 0.47 a kilowatt hour for power produced by photovoltaic panels.

Rather they've been up on the roof installing a 10 kilowatt solar photovoltaic system.

Despite their promise, organic solar cells will be only one part of the quest to bring photovoltaics to the point where their cost - per - kilowatt is competitive with electrical power generated by fossil fuels or nuclear energy, Chan says.

Germany built its solar program with a pricing mechanism called feed - in tariffs, in which money collected from ratepayers is used to buy surplus power from owners of rooftop photovoltaic arrays at a guaranteed price per kilowatt - hour.

The energy for the approximately 140 households basically comes from wind turbines with installed capacity of 500 kilowatts (kW) and photovoltaic panels with 440 kW, supported by a battery system with 800 kW capacity.

NEW JERSEY — Code Environmental Services, an environmental and hazardous waste remediation firm based in Carteret, has completed its installation of a 220 - kilowatt rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system...