Sentences with phrase «new solar capacity»

Record amounts of new solar capacity have been installed over the past two years.

The 2017 total for new solar capacity was more than 40 % above 2015's, and more than three times what got installed just five years earlier.

And then there's the global picture, and records broken in terms of new solar capacity and new investment.

According to the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation, only China exceeded Japan over the last 12 months in adding new solar capacity, with much of the new generation coming from rooftop solar systems.

These factors, combined with financial and operational pressures on utilities to meet an ambitious reform agenda, have created a deep distaste for Japan's renewable energy push, experts say, especially in regions where new solar capacity exceeds customer demand and where integration of those resources has created headaches for utility grid managers.

State solar investment at affordable housing is expected to accelerate drastically thanks to the passage of Assembly Bill 693 (Eggman, 2015), which commits to a goal of installing at least 300 MW of new solar capacity on affordable housing, and allocates up to $ 1 billion over the next decade to do so.

The results for 2008 shouldn't be too much of a surprise: the most solar integrated utility was Northern California's PG&E, its 85 MW of new solar capacity blowing the competition out of the water — those 85 MW were over 44 % of the total field.

Working with Microsoft to facilitate new solar capacity entering onto the grid is part of this process.

Calculations based on these assumptions result in a combined total estimation of between 46 GW and 50 GW of new solar capacity for 2018.

This year, experts forecast that solar companies will install 73 gigawatts of new solar capacity, up from 51 gigawatts in 2015.

«In a record - breaking year for renewable energy creation worldwide, the 98 gigawatts of new solar capacity was higher than all other technologies, including other renewables, nuclear and fossil fuels.»

In fact, of the 6 GW of new solar capacity added in the US during 2014, 63 % of it came from utility - scale plants.

Between 2000 - 2014, there were 117 GW of new wind energy capacity installed in Europe, 101 GW of new natural gas fired capacity and 88 GW of new solar capacity.

In 2017, the world will add about 80 gigawatts of new solar capacity.

One hundred gigawatts of new solar capacity will cost in the trillions of rupees, requiring both higher electricity rates and massive funding from the central government.

Data from the analysts reveals that a total of 1,776 MW of new solar capacity was tendered in the final month of 2016, with the Solar Energy Corporation of India responsible for more than 1 GW.

Accounting for the majority of the new solar capacity offered was the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), the government's sanctioned solar division that is the driving force behind a push to build 1 GW of rooftop solar PV atop government buildings nationwide.

The entire 100 MW of new solar capacity is expected to be brought online towards the end of fiscal year 2017, with both Adani and Azure developing the projects on a build - own - operate basis for SECI, which has signed a 25 - year fixed PPA for this new solar capacity.

India's impressive 2016 for solar showed no signs of slowing down in the year's final month, with data from market analysts Mercom Capital Group revealing that more than 1.7 GW of new solar capacity was tendered in December.

Slower growth has been observed in both residential and non-residential sectors, a number of prominent industry players have experienced bankruptcies, and a pending trade case brought by bankrupt solar manufacturer Suniva is creating significant uncertainty.1 Market research released in June by GTM Research and SEIA predicts that new solar capacity this year will be 16 % less than 2016.

By contrast, a total of 481 megawatts of new solar capacity was installed in the United States last year, mostly from thousands of rooftop solar arrays, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group.