Sentences with phrase «new photovoltaic»
In Germany, 8.5 gigawatts of new photovoltaic capacity were added in 2010.
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Recent updates include rich bamboo wood floors, an updated kitchen island, designer furnishings, and a new photovoltaic system.
However, the new photovoltaic...
However, the new photovoltaic windows would convert the sunlight on bright days into energy that provides more functional integration with buildings, automobiles, information displays and potentially many other technologies.
As the industry gears up to meet growing demand — 6.4 gigawatts of new photovoltaic installations were built worldwide in 2009 according to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association, the bulk of it silicon solar cells — what are the human health and environmental concerns related to solar power?
«New technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells: Approach could bypass the time - consuming steps currently needed to test new photovoltaic materials..»
Last year, new photovoltaic panels installed in the U.S. had the capacity to generate up to 4.2 gigawatts of electricity, about as much as four nuclear reactors.
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New solar photovoltaic capacity increased by 50 percent in 2016 according to the International Energy Agency.
There's no new physics here: The first fission reaction was in 1939, the first photovoltaic cell was created in 1954, windmills date to the Middle Ages, and making alcohol (the dominant biofuel) predates recorded history.
A consortium of New Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital, and EverStream Energy Capital Management today announced that it has closed an investment of $ 67.3 million to fund the development and construction of utility ‐ scale solar photovoltaic power projects in Central... Continue reading →
The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund today announced an investment of $ 12.0 million in FLS Energy, Inc., the nation's largest installer of commercial solar hot water systems and one of the largest integrators of photovoltaic solar systems in the... Continue reading →
Meanwhile, silver's use in solar photovoltaic (PV) cells hit a new record high last year, further boosting demand.
The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund today announced an investment of $ 12.0 million in FLS Energy, Inc., the nation's largest installer of commercial solar hot water systems and one of the largest integrators of photovoltaic solar systems in the southeastern United States.
According to GIZ's Country Director, Thomas Kirsch the hybrid power systems based on new and renewable energy sources, especially photovoltaic and wind energy, are an effective option to solve the power supply problem for remote and isolated areas far from the grid.
Keeping up with the vegetables, maintaining the house and outbuildings, building a new woodshed, upgrading the photovoltaic system, improving the soil, and expanding the garden keeps us busy!
A new report finds that replacing old lightbulbs with light - emitting diodes offers more energy savings than installing photovoltaics
But recent improvements in the molecular structure of the silicon in photovoltaic panels helped bring online more than 10 gigawatts of new solar power in 2011 alone.
It paved the way to new applications in numerous fields such as photovoltaics and optoelectronics.
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.
A new system combines the power of plants and photovoltaics to make solar power cheap and durable.
To overcome the various drawbacks of photovoltaic and solar - thermal systems, a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a new device that combines elements of both, which they describe in a January 19 paper in Nature Nanotechnology.
Cleaner than clean energy: BioSolar creates new plastic backing for photovoltaic cells out of cotton and castor beans rather than petroleum products
«The new results are based on the use of focused sunlight, and are particularly relevant to photovoltaic power towers being developed in Australia,» Professor Green said.
Augmented - reality shopping, power - generating chairs, and a miniature indoor photovoltaic panel walked away with top honours at the third annual Greener Gadgets design competition, held in New York yesterday.
Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).
He thinks photovoltaic panels and batteries are more likely to drop in cost because «we continue to see newer technologies in that field.»
Understanding such processes, together with improved designs that push beyond the theoretical efficiency limits, will have a broad significance with regard to designing new ultra-efficient photovoltaic devices.»
Better still would be electricity from a new generation of emissions - free solar photovoltaic panels.
To encourage investment in the emerging renewables sector, Japan's government in 2012 adopted a generous feed - in tariff program for new renewable energy projects, the result of which has been a glut of new mostly solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays coming online over the last 24 months, helping to increase the country's nonhydropower renewable energy portfolio to 2.2 percent of total consumption this year, according to government estimates.
A 2014 Rocky Mountain Institute report on grid defection suggested that by 2020 in some parts of the U.S., especially Hawaii, California and New York, the cost and reliability of a home or business fully powered using a self - contained solar photovoltaic and battery system is quickly approaching «grid parity.»
A new «double - glazing» solar power device — which is unlike any existing solar panel and opens up fresh opportunities to develop more advanced photovoltaics — has been invented by University of Warwick researchers.
The team's work will enable the high - throughput screening of organic materials for new organic photovoltaic devices.
Marshall said new jobs would be created in areas deemed more strategic, among them carbon capture and storage, emission reduction measures, and photovoltaics.
Two new solar thermal technologies — which focus sunlight to create heat rather than convert it directly to electricity, as photovoltaics do — promise to make solar power practical at vastly different scales.
Not only would major new wind farms and photovoltaic arrays have to be constructed there, but the entire electric grid would have to be upgraded and reconfigured to bring that electricity to the population centers where it is needed.
Advanced Photovoltaic Systems of Princeton in New Jersey installed the system at Davis in California in September and scientists from a consortium of government agencies and utilities have since been evaluating the performance of the array.
he new demonstration platform «EnergyForecaster» depicts forecasts for the feed of renewable energies in general (left) and for photovoltaics and wind energy in particular (right).
«With the systematic adaptation of our weather forecasts as a basis for wind and photovoltaic power forecasts for the electric grid, the German weather service has taken on a new and supplementary role,» explains Hagedorn.
Photovoltaics (PV) generated about 1 percent of the total electricity produced globally in 2015 but also represented about 20 percent of new installation.
We very much hope that these washable, lightweight and stretchable organic photovoltaics will open a new avenue for use as a long - term power source system for wearable sensors and other devices.»
«The use of tiny cells for efficiency testing has prompted some to question comparison of perovskite solar cells with other established photovoltaic technologies,» said Nitin Padture, professor of engineering at Brown, director of Brown's Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, and one of the senior authors of the new research.
New facilities use everything from guns to temperature extremes to test the safety of photovoltaics and other clean energy technologies
Dr. Ager's research interests include the fundamental electronic and transport characteristics of photovoltaic materials, development of new photoanodes and photocathodes based on abundant elements for solar fuels production, and the development of new oxide - and sulfide - based transparent conductors.
While the photovoltaics are new, energy conservation has been the subject of much work around the observatory, both at headquarters in Waimea and at the summit facilities.
Using time - resolved low frequency spectroscopy in the terahertz spectral region, the researchers explored the photo - excitations of a new class of photovoltaic materials known as organometal halide perovskites.
The Materials Project, a Google - like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation, has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and a host of other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new research avenues.
The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.
Prior to coming to Connecticut, most of Donnelly's experience was with political campaigns in New Jersey and Long Island although she did spend nearly two years in 2010 - 2011 with 1st Light Energy Inc, where she, «Oversaw residential and commercial photovoltaic (solar system) installations for the entire scope of the project.»
As Hawaii's first LEED - EBOM Silver resort, Hyatt Regency Maui's list of leading environmental initiatives include LEED - EBOM certification maintenance by the resort's own Green Team; sustainability and recycling tactics supporting renewable energy and recycling; the recent installation of one of the largest photovoltaic solar panel systems in Hawaii that significantly reducing the resort's carbon footprint; and a new sustainability tour for guests to learn about environmental initiatives on site.
For those wanting to be «green» while on vacation, a new 52 - panel state - of - the - art solar photovoltaic system is installed on the roof of the home.