Sentences with phrase «of solar design»

Steven Strong, world - renowned solar design engineer (President of Solar Design Associates who is currently building a net - zero solar home in Tunbridge) will weave technology, politics and social policy together with humor and compelling success stories to demonstrate that renewable energy is ready, here and now.

Going solar is a big decision, so providing prospective customers with a concrete understanding of how it will put more money in their pockets is an essential first step in communicating the value of your solar design — in addition to quantifying how much solar energy the system will produce and exactly what their savings will be (both of which are easy to calculate if you use Aurora).

Since a huge focus of our work at Aurora is making it easier for solar professionals to design optimal solar installations quickly and easily, we thought it was fitting that two of our top - performing articles focus on the intricacies of solar design.

The true financial savings of your solar design can be understood with the LCOE.

There are many applications of computer vision, but in the field of solar design it offers a number of ways to make solar design faster and more accurate.

Steven J. Strong is President of Solar Design Associates, Inc., a group of Architects and Engineers dedicated to the design of environmentally responsive buildings, and the engineering and integration of renewable energy systems which incorporate the latest in innovative technology.

Furthermore, precise data on energy consumption at different times throughout the day is important in enabling accurate evaluation of the financial returns of the solar design.

Furthermore, this consideration might influence the ideal location or orientation of a solar design (such as siting the design where it will get more afternoon light, and thus offset energy when electricity prices are higher, rather than where it would produce the most energy overall).

It has a wider variety of solar designs than most newer books have.

We explain how to assess the pros and cons of solar designs that may experience inverter clipping, and how to account for these impacts when estimating the energy production of a design.

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People in manufacturing design installation and sales to mention but a few of the possibilities of a fully fledged Solar industry that Australia could embrace and possibly lead the way for the world to follow?

Sonnen makes solar batteries designed to supply homes with an independent source of energy, similar to the Powerwall systems built by Tesla.

When Jenkins realized how «phenomenally expensive» it was to conduct research, he devised a plan to transform his land - yacht design into one of an autonomous sailboat outfitted with sensors and solar panels.

In October, he presided over a splashy reveal of the first joint product of Tesla and SolarCity — solar roofs designed to look like regular roofs that can harvest almost as much energy as traditional solar panels.

For example, d.light design has an ambitious goal: Reach 100 million people in far reaches of the globe by 2020 with its inexpensive solar - powered lanterns.

A provider of residential solar power products and services, SolarCity designs and installs solar energy systems and performs energy efficiency audits.

The company custom designs residential solar power systems, and grew at a three - year rate of 9,507 %.

Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.

It is an «off - the - grid,» modularly designed kiosk that becomes a hub of community activity by providing a place of commerce as well as safe drinking water, solar power and wireless communication.

The Value of Solar (VOS) rate (or Value of Solar tariff) is an alternative to net metering designed to capture the value solar installations provide to the electric sySolar (VOS) rate (or Value of Solar tariff) is an alternative to net metering designed to capture the value solar installations provide to the electric sySolar tariff) is an alternative to net metering designed to capture the value solar installations provide to the electric sysolar installations provide to the electric system.

It's a notable accomplishment because the Solar Roof is the first major design change for rooftop solar in decades and could excite the same type of customers who have fallen in love with Tesla's electric vehiSolar Roof is the first major design change for rooftop solar in decades and could excite the same type of customers who have fallen in love with Tesla's electric vehisolar in decades and could excite the same type of customers who have fallen in love with Tesla's electric vehicles.

«Because our design builds on proven industry technologies, we will be able to quickly increase production capacity while maintaining quality,» says Mike Andrade, CEO of Morgan Solar.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a $ 5 million impact investment in Little Sun, creators of portable, solar - powered lamps designed by co-founders: artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen.

It has pioneered an entirely new approach to the design and manufacture of solar modules and Balance of System (BOS) components.

The high - tech shingles were designed to look and function like conventional roofing materials with the added benefit of harnessing solar energy from the sun.

The plant's original plan called for producing enough solar panels to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, although Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer, said this month that improvements to the equipment design and factory layout could allow it to produce more than 1 gigawatt in panels.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

When Tesla and SolarCity embarked to design and engineer the solar roof together, the goal was to create the most beautiful and efficient roof ever — one that would make homes look better while reducing the cost of electricity.

Musk says the new solar roofs will cost less than a traditional roof plus the cost of electricity and last longer than traditional roofs which, according to the National Roofing Contractors Association, «are designed to provide useful service for about 20 years.

The design of the earth and solar system is also quite impressive.

For example, Newton pointed to the stability of the solar system, and the Intelligent Design movement points to the origin of life and to irreducibly complex structures in biology.

From recycled materials and energy efficient utilities to a huge solar panel and worm farm to recycle our food scraps, the design of our cellar door is the perfect reflection of the Buttery family's commitment to sustainability and the environment.

Manufactured to ISO9001 and EEC standards of safety and design, the range includes: Water and wastewater screening; Grit removal and dewatering; Septic receival stations; Dissolved air flotation; Sedimentation systems and clarifiers; Shaftless conveyors; Sludge dewatering; Lime handling; and silo systems; Continuous sand filters; Microfilters and screens; Solar - powered circulation; UV disinfection; Ozone treatment; Anaerobic treatment.

As part of an undergraduate internship, Taya designed and built a passive - air solar food dehydrator to address the needs of a community in rural Rwanda.

Our materials make innovation design solutions possible in a range of industries including consumer electronics, solar and wind energy, fuel cells, package printing, aerospace, automotive, food safety and industrial applications.

The new brewery cuts energy use by 50 % per barrel through thoughtful building design, solar lighting and the recycling of process waste streams like water and heat.

These Olymobiles, built by British manufacturer Frazer - Nash, come in a variety of designs and colors, including the Windsor, which looks like a Model T, and the VW Beetle - like Solar Baby (above).

With activities designed for all ages, families are invited to spend the day experimenting together as they explore the celestial mechanics of a solar eclipse, relate size and distance in space, and test different materials to determine how well they protect from the sun's UV rays.

The out - of - this - world Community Design Lab where kids and adults alike can participate in hands - on astronomy crafts such as DIY solar phone filters, pinhole eclipse projectors and more.

For example, the canopy should be specially designed in mesh to reduce the certain amount of solar heat and other UVA / UVB rays that probably reach your kid's sensitive eyes or skin more than 65 %.

Tesla engineers will take over development of the solar panels designed by Rive.

The Town of Gardiner is bracing itself for some fiscal shocks in 2018, as residents clamor for overhauls of the town's outdated Master Plan and a Zoning Code that was not designed to cope with some types of contemporary development pressures, such as «glamping» and solar farms.

Now recognized as one of the world's most followed sustainable design events, LAGI embodies similar goals and targets identical issues as Southern Tier Solar Works, creating the foundation for a perfect partnership.

NUKE BILL OUTCRY — POLITICO's Danielle Muoio: The latest draft of a controversial nuclear subsidy bill is drawing widespread concern from wind and solar leaders who say the newest language would hurt programs designed to expand renewables in New Jersey.

Renderings of a modernized airport appeared on a projector behind Cuomo during his speech, displaying an airport with solar rooftop panels, a glass pedestrian bridge and a newly - designed interior.

Sustainability and Resiliency: The contract should require design enhancements which would allow the system to make use of alternative energy sources, like solar power, while also reducing its reliance on the existing power grid.

PRESS RELEASE County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef has announced that the Department of Public Transportation recently retrofitted one of its bus shelters with solar panels and a light box designed to provide cost - efficient and reliable power, increased safety and improved delivery of customer information for its Transport of Rockland (TOR) and TAPPAN ZEExpress (TZx) bus -LSB-...]

Moreover, there have been design changes to the factory's interior layout that will boost efficiency of the solar panel production.

Those designed to quickly stop and start a car's petrol engine to improve fuel efficiency need a quick burst of power, but for smoothing a domestic solar panel's output, capacity might be more important than speed.