Sentences with phrase «of solar capacity»

To date, there have been more than 36 MW of solar capacity funded through solar for affordable housing rebate programs, generating significant savings for both property owners and their residents.

Less than 600 megawatts of solar capacity were installed in 2003.

Most of the solar capacity was installed by households and investors seeking state - guaranteed subsidies, while the incumbent utilities failed to seize the opportunity.

It said this decision was in response to the excess capacity, and at the time of the decision it just happened to match the amount of solar capacity.

Compared with previous rankings of solar capacity, do states that allow third - party leases and power purchase agreements still dominate?

They own just 7 per cent of renewables capacity and less than three per cent of solar capacity.

The second phase of the project is for 200 MW of solar capacity.

Furthermore, renewable energy production capacity has increased, adding 5.5 gigawatts of wind from 2016 - 17, and 9.6 gigawatts of solar capacity in the past three years.

Right now, there is 33 GW of solar capacity in Germany that can supply 50 % of consumption on a sunny day at noon.

The country plans to have 41 GW of solar capacity installed by 2032, enough to cover roughly 20 % of the country's energy demand.

It aims to build 300 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2030.

It has just 551 megawatts of solar capacity installed currently, according to government figures, and some 70 percent of the equipment comes from abroad.

Earlier this year, China was forced to idle about 9 percent of its solar capacity because of storage and grid issues.

North Carolina's 4 gigawatts of solar capacity comes almost entirely from large solar farms — rows upon rows of ground - mounted panels built in the last six years.

The school district began its venture into solar in 2009 when it installed 70 kilowatts (kW) worth of solar capacity at the Lovelock Elementary School.

Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) has issued a tender for 1GW of solar capacity separated into smaller projects of 2 - 10MW in size, to be spread across 218 talukas throughout the state.

With the highest levels of solar capacity in the U.S., California is grappling with grid management challenges that other states may eventually face as they approach higher levels of solar.

Solar power pushing down the price of electricity during the day is very bad for the economics of nuclear power and it doesn't take a lot of solar capacity for this to occur, as we've seen here in Australia.

In their latest annual report, the municipal association intends to add about four solar parks with 10 MW of solar capacity per year, with an eventual goal of an installation in every one of their 61 member communities.

This is good news for renewable energy, reflecting a massive expansion of solar capacity in California in 2016 — but it comes with several caveats.

Renewable Properties has a rapidly growing pipeline of utility solar projects located throughout the U.S. and plans to bring approximately 75 MW DC of solar capacity online in 2018, which is enough electricity to power nearly 12,657 homes a year.

RECAI analysts say the country's 2022 target to install 100GW of solar capacity is looking «increasingly over-ambitious» as investor concern grows over the threat of a 70 per cent tariff on imported solar panels, and unsustainably low power bids in recent wind and solar auctions.

Those kinds of prices, guaranteed for between 10 and 20 years, have helped fuel a surge in renewable energy development in Japan, leading to the addition of nearly 11,000 MW of solar capacity since 2012 while an additional 72,000 MW remains in the development pipeline, according to METI estimates.

When he says all we need to do is build a new billion watt nuclear plant every 1.9 days, how is that any different or how much easier is it if we have to build a billion watts of solar capacity every 1.9 days?

Only 70 % of the solar capacity built by Chinese firms in 2017 was domestic, with Malaysia (8 %) and Taiwan (7 %) the next largest markets.

Australia recently celebrated reaching 5GW of solar capacity not long after hitting a landmark 1.5 million solar systems.

Key to maintaining reliability, CaISO will have to manage a -70 MWs per minute ramp - down in solar power as 4,194 MW of solar capacity goes offline between 9 am and 10:22 am, as the sun is blocked.

(India has about four gigawatts of solar capacity today.)

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) last week issued its annual assessment of the California Solar Initiative, a $ 2.2 billion effort to install 1,940 megawatts (MW) of solar capacity across the state by 2016.

NYPA will also install more than 125 megawatts of solar capacity on schools and other public buildings by 2020, achieving a 300 percent increase in distributed solar projects at public facilities statewide.

2016 saw a doubling of solar capacity installed compared to the previous year, representing 14.8 gigawatts of new dc capacity.

Rather, the tariffs will injure U.S. installation companies and reduce U.S. deployment of solar capacity, while other countries race ahead to harness solar energy.

It cited a report from Green Tech Media Research saying the tariffs would result in the elimination of 88,000 U.S. jobs and the deferred installation of 47 gigawatts of solar capacity between 2017 and 2022, said Moody's.

Cambridge has set a goal of completing 100 solar installations through the Sunny Cambridge campaign, representing over 500 kilowatts of solar capacity.

Not only did new solar and wind not make up for the lost nuclear, the amount of solar and wind electricity produced in 2016 actually decreased from 2015 despite new additions of solar capacity and extensive additions of wind capacity.

About three - quarters of this solar capacity was located in California (including the Topaz and Desert Sunlight (Phase 1 and 2) photovoltaic (PV) plants and the Genesis solar thermal plant), with Arizona, Nevada, and Massachusetts making up most of the rest.

But the MS Tûranor Planet Solar catamaran is better than beautiful: the photovoltaic panels that completely cover its deck and fold out from its sides like wings provide 93 kW of solar capacity, equivalent to about 127 horsepower.

Germans have been installing 30 times the U.S. total of solar capacity per year, creating 40,000 new jobs in the process — even though Germany lies well north of much of the U.S.

The development plans include 200MW of Solar PV, a 100MW / 100MWh battery, 100MW of demand response, a 120MW / 600MWh pumped hydro storage facility and 480MW of solar capacity which will be installed later to support the expansion of industrial capacity.

According to Arvind Mahajan, the executive director of KPMG Advisory Services, a global financial services network, the region has already announced lucrative subsides for the first 500MW of solar capacity to be developed in Gujarat, though the remaining 2,500 MW have yet to be addressed.

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was launched on the 11th January, 2010 by the Prime Minister setting an ambitious goal of deploying 20 GW of solar capacity by 2022.

One way to deal with the challenge would have been to simply shut off solar power systems - that's how Italy dealt with Friday's solar eclipse; they disconnected 30 percent of solar capacity to reduce their network balancing problem.

Then, a +98 MWs per minute ramp - up rate as 5,903 MWs of solar capacity comes back online, as the sun reappears.

If that were all on rooftops (it's not) and composed of typical rooftop residential systems, we'd be talking the equivalent of almost 2 million solar home systems worth of solar capacity.

7 May: Canada - headquartered firm SkyPower claims that it has signed a power purchase agreement with the government of Uzbekistan for 1GW of solar capacity.

With the highest levels of solar capacity in the U.S., California is leading the way on solar policies that other states may explore as they add more solar.

Solar can't produce electricity at night, but as we've seen in Germany and Australia it doesn't take a lot of solar capacity to start pushing down electricty prices during the day and that is very bad for the economics of nuclear power as it's a high capital cost, low fuel cost source of energy and reducing output during periods of low demand doesn't do much to reduce costs.

Even Saudi Arabia, one of the world's largest oil producers, recognizes the economic and political benefits of solar energy: in 2012, the country announced a goal to build 41 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2032.

For example, Cuomo's NY Sun Initiative commits the state to building 3000 megawatts of solar capacity.