Sentences with phrase «of photovoltaic»

The product combines the long - term structural performance of its standing seam metal panels with the durability and flexibility of a photovoltaic laminate, which creates an efficient solar roof system that can be used on several of the company's roof panel systems.

After all, it's basically just two different functions of a photovoltaic cell — one stores the energy that falls on it while the other records how much energy fell on it.

By the end of July, the insolvency allowance had been paid, which secured the salaries of the employees of the photovoltaic plant manufacturer.

White & Case has advised Mid Europa Partners (MEP) and Squire Patton Boggs has advised CEE Equity Partners — the investment advisor to the China CEE Investment Co-operation Fund — on the latter's investment into the Energy 21 operator of photovoltaic power plants.

Represented Vivint Solar, Inc. in connection with acquisition of Solmetric, Inc., a developer of photovoltaic installation instruments and software products

As the years dragged on, and Ivanpah still wasn't operational, it began to run up against another problem: the falling price of photovoltaic power.

No matter how low the cost of photovoltaic modules goes?

GTM / SEIA attribute as much as 63 % of overall system costs to the «soft» side, an almost mirror inversion from a decade ago, where the cost of the photovoltaic solar panel was the boss (no pun for industry folk).

«Our thermal storage can keep the freezer cold for up to 12 hours in some situations — it depends on factors like how full the room is, whether it has open doors and so on so it varies but that's why there's this ability to store energy in there in the form of photovoltaic.»

A coalition of scientists and local land conservationists calling itself Solar Done Right envisions roofing homes, commercial buildings and parking lots throughout the Southwest with a vast network of photovoltaic panels, each connected to the rest through the power grid.

«We are confident that our minimum - material design and use of commodity materials will cut the cost of photovoltaic electricity in a 1 megawatt installation to 29 cents per watt by 2010.

«What that got you to was somewhere around 80 gigawatts of photovoltaic capacity by 2030,» Steger says.

In his 10 years in the business, Harris has seen the average efficiency of photovoltaic cells improve from about 12 percent to 15 or 16 percent.

«There are products that are greener than others,» says Ian Gregory of Evergreen Solar, a manufacturer of photovoltaic modules that have an 18 - month energy payback.

The project «will open the way for the development of the photovoltaic sector,» Gauss Chief Executive Officer Hector Olea said in an e-mail.

The reductions in cost and the improvements in efficiency of photovoltaic cells over the past decade appear to be following an exponential curve that resembles a less dramatic but still startling version of what happened with computer chips over the past 50 years.

Holmes County, Ohio, which is known for having the world's largest Amish population, is already a hot bed of solar power: an estimated 80 % of Amish families have embraced the use of photovoltaic panels.

Active solar techniques include the use of photovoltaic panels (solar panels) and solar thermal collectors to harness the energy.

We are aware that energy prices are rising, and we have seen the cost of photovoltaic panels and other components drop considerably over the last few years.

For example, the nitrogen trifluoried used in manufacture of photovoltaic panels is about 17,000 times as powerful as CO2 for global warming, so an estimate of the amount leaking into the environment from the manufacturing process has to be included.

In the last ten years, the defining development in solar energy has been the sharp drop in the prices of photovoltaic panels.

The quiet (energy) revolution: analysing the dissemination of photovoltaic power systems in Kenya.

Plus, it combines all stages of the photovoltaic value chain, from the raw material silicon to turn - key solar power plants, so that it can uphold high quality and environmental standards at every stage.

A full 29 percent of all new electricity installations were solar, with developers installing 4.75 gigawatts worth of photovoltaic panels — a growth of 41 percent over 2012.

Luckily for South Africa, the price of photovoltaic light has massively decreased which is great news.

Silicon is the dominant semiconductor material used in present day solar cells, representing more than 93 percent of the photovoltaic cell market.

The Mexican Association of Photovoltaic Solar Energy (Asolmex) brings together operators, shareholders, vendors and developers of photovoltaic solar plants on a large scale.

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.

With falling battery prices, lowered feed - in tariffs and increasing electricity rates across Europe, it has become increasingly attractive to raise the share of self - consumption of the photovoltaic electricity generated on the homeowners» roof rather than sell it to the grid.

Current research ranges from work on algae strains that can turn sunlight into hydrogen fuel to the inkjet - style printing of photovoltaic cells — a technique that could greatly cut solar - energy costs if it worked on a large scale.

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 the US, solar energy grew by 38 percent (0.15 quads), buoyed by a decrease in the price of photovoltaic panels over the past decade.

A boom in the production of photovoltaic solar cells has not only cut the price of solar panels in half, but has also helped double solar energy's contribution to America's power supply Now dirty industry has the Production Tax Credit for wind energy in its sights - and polluters don't care that letting the credit expire means major job losses.

The 800 megawatts is 3.6 times the total capacity of photovoltaic installed in the U.S. in 2007 and equivalent to about 30 percent of worldwide installations for the year.

The benefit of joining FPL's project is that you send the message that you want green energy — and the company promises to install 150 kW worth of photovoltaic solar panels on the roofs of existing buildings for every 10,000 people who join the Sunshine Energy program.

China now manufactures over half of the photovoltaic modules used globally.

China already has the world's largest capacity of photovoltaic solar power.

But spring will come, and when the snow finally melts, it will reveal the glossy black sheen of photovoltaic solar panels glinting from the North Sea to the Bavarian Alps.

And while using concentrating optics permits more electric power per unit area of photovoltaic cells (this has been known for decades), this is only effective if the whole assembly tracks the sun, which wipes out the entire cost advantage — why it is not being used to any significant extent.

Here is a graph of photovoltaic cell efficiency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PVeff (rev131204) a.jpg.

In Europe there was a decline in large scale renewable energy projects, but this was offset by an increase in domestic solar power investment thought to have come about by a decrease in the price of photovoltaic cells.

Solar Rising LLC is company specializing in the sales, design, installation and maintenance of photovoltaic systems throughout Massachusetts.

Firstly: efficiency is what holds this technology back, and that is especially true when it comes to household use of any type of photovoltaic cells.

In 2011, Arizona had nine utility - scale projects with power purchase agreements (PPAs), eight of them photovoltaic projects.

To complement the intermittency of photovoltaic and wind power generation, paradoxically, more fossil fuels such as natural gas should be used.

For example: between 2006 and 2016, the average value of photovoltaic modules themselves plummeted from $ 3.50 / watt $ 0.72 / watt — an 80 percent decrease in only 10 years.

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) in southern California will begin a program in which the utility company will provide another 100 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic (PV) solar electricity to its customers.

Capacity of the photovoltaic and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) IPP — based projects currently under construction is 1,500 MW.

However, a number of suppliers of photovoltaic technology continue to have a problem in this regard.

My gut reaction was to be skeptical: Solar has been growing rapidly, especially in California, but even with nearly 3,000 MW of photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal generation in place, it's still well short of the scale of California's 10,000 MW of hydropower dams, especially when you consider that the latter aren't constrained to operate only in daylight hours.