Sentences with phrase «of solar farm»

Michael Allman, the president and chief executive of Sempra Energy's merchant generation unit, said that if his company can secure orders for 500 MW, the construction of the solar farm could happen as soon as 2012.

SolarCity has chosen Tesla to supply a 52MWh utility - scale energy storage system, which will make the output of a solar farm in Hawaii dispatchable.

This is 2 1/2 times the area of solar farm required to power the world in 2030.

Developers of a solar farm atop a former Kentucky coal mining site hope their work will inspire similar projects — putting abandoned land to use and helping revive the Appalachian economy.

Developers of a solar farm atop a former Kentucky coal mining site hope their work will inspire similar projects, but the process is much more complicated and time consuming than it may seem.

The Coyote Ridge Community Solar Farm exhibits the cooperative nature of our local electric co-op — it brings all of our members together by providing an opportunity to participate in the construction and energy output of the solar farm.»

But if a proposal before the state's Public Utilities Commission is approved, avoided costs would be switched to the cost of a solar farm, which is now about 12 cents / kWh.

In ownership - based projects, an individual, organization or business owns a percentage of the solar farm and has a stake in the asset.

Or the solar farm provider might offer a power - purchase arrangement, wherein customers pay a set monthly amount for their portion of the solar farm and are reimbursed for the power those solar panels produce on their energy bill.

Once the panels are paid for net savings will accumulate for the rest of the solar farm's life.

Less than four months after proposing the construction of a solar farm to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation, Solarflair Energy and Westboro 21 South Street Inc. are jut about finished building the Milk Street solar farm — a 240 - kilowatt (KW) photovoltaic (PV) solar energy installation in Westboro Massachusetts.

So each hectare of solar farm saves about 25 tonnes of carbon each year.

GEM Energy, a subsidiary of the broader Rudolph Libbe Group that also own Rudolph Libbe Inc., has built 50 MW worth of solar farms — some of them First Solar projects (including the below — and relatively unique — non-utility scale First Solar system).

She is an enemy of solar farms or biomass plants, preferring to back agriculture whenever possible.

The Town Board liaison to the committee, he said the advisory board recently seemed to want to keep open the possibility of solar farms on agricultural land — though the committee stopped short of making an official recommendation.

In other words, the types of solar farms previously dominated by traditional silicon photovoltaics now used to generate electricity from sunshine in states like Arizona and California.

This month Spain slashed the maximum capacity of solar farms that can claim subsidies from 1,200 MW to just 500 MW.

Vast acres of solar farms using photovoltaics made from semiconductors to convert sunlight to electricity now span southern Spain: Celebrated ground - mounted photovoltaic (PV) plants include La Magascona and Jumilla with their array of 120,000 modules on 120 single - axis «follow - the - sun» trackers.

Our land's highest, best use is probably a mixture of solar farms in the driest and poorest areas which concentrate water by runoff onto neighboring land used either to return to nature and grow grass (with cows optional) to sequester carbon by building soil and / or be periodically harvested to provide feed for cellulosic ethanol.

It has made a series of deals to purchase the output of solar farms that are under construction and will be up and running in 2015 and 2016.

The Reservoir also leverages silicon carbide technology to boost the efficiency of solar farms, cut down on installation time and reduce lifcycle costs:

GEM Energy, a subsidiary of the broader Rudolph Libbe Group that also own Rudolph Libbe Inc., has built 50 MW worth of solar farms — some of them First Solar projects (including the below — and relatively unique — non-utility scale First Solar system).

And don't forget the environmental disaster caused by millions of acres of solar farms destroying bird and wildlife habits, to say nothing of the millions of birds and bats slaughtered by windmills.

Siemens we reported last week, has now bowed out of its commitment to the pan-African and possibly Middle Eastern solar grid project Desertec that would connect the energy of solar farms from sunny countries to Europe.

Believing that a carbon price — any carbon price — would work as a quasi-mystical «price signal» on the market, ushering in a world of solar farms and electric cars, they stiffed Chu.

Conergy's market analysis indicated waning productivity of solar farms in the Philippines and the region.

Manila, November 29, 2017 - Conergy announced today the formation of solutions to help solar farm owners and investors gain improved performance and financial returns through better operations and maintenance of solar farms.

Big Solar's growth is apt to continue, thanks to dropping prices, the ability to lock in predictable energy costs, and the local political constituencies that arise from the spread of solar farms, writes David Roberts.

This collection of farmers raises sheep to maintain the grounds of solar farms.

Share Yahoo! Buzz Add to Mixx Facebook TwitterMore Fark Digg Reddit MySpace StumbleUpon Propeller LinkedInSubscribe myYahoo iGoogleMore Netvibes myAOL By Julie Schmit, USA TODAY California is on track to approve a wave of solar farms this year that will more than double the state's ability to generate electricity from solar power.

Not exact matches

Shell is building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea; it's part of consortia installing solar farms in Oman and California; and it has bought one of Europe's biggest electric - car - charging firms and a major British electricity provider.

A Pew Research Center poll from October found 83 % of conservative Republicans favor more solar installations, and 75 % favor more wind farms.

Amazon's wind - and solar - farm initiatives help power Amazon Web Services and other parts of Amazon with renewable energy.

Though Democrats have historically been viewed as the strongest supporters of renewable energy, utility - scale wind farms and solar installations are found throughout the nation — including in Republican - leaning states like Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma and North Dakota — and enjoy bipartisan support among Americans.

On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a Tesla solar farm accounts for a fifth of the island's peak energy demand.

The Water Corporation is set to purchase the entire renewable energy output from Verve Energy's Mumbida Wind Farm and Greenough River Solar Farm to offset the energy requirements of its Southern Seawater Desalination Plant.

Well, Disney is now invoking the power of our home star, the sun, with a new solar farm.

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

Before 2009, there were no solar farms and only a handful of wind and geothermal plants on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Today, there are 13 solar plants, four wind farms and six geothermal plants online, generating about 3,500 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 573,000 homes.

Energy infrastructure company APA Group has entered into an agreement with Synergy for the purchase of power from its Emu Downs solar farm near Cervantes, with construction of the project now set to begin next month.

Put simply, for every kilowatt hour of electricity the company used in 2017, it bought a kilowatt hour of renewable energy from a solar or wind farm built specifically for Google.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

Drawdown makes sure to empower ordinary human beings with actions each of us can contribute, even if we aren't specialized in offshore wind farms or solar storage technology.

Apple Inc. said it plans to build a new solar farm with NV Energy Inc. for power supply to its new data center in Reno, Nevada, a major step towards its goal of having its data centers run on renewable energy.

The new solar farm will provide power to Sierra Pacific Power Co.'s electric grid that serves Apple's data center and when completed will generate about hours 43.5 million kilowatt of clean energy a year, Apple said in a statement.

For companies developing and operating solar farms, the cost of panels has plummeted approximately 40 % in 12 months.

China's latest energy megaprojects — two giant solar farms in Anhui, one of which will go online in May — could get the country closer to that goal.

For example, it recently built a solar energy farm in China that doesn't disrupt the local communities, Jackson explained while showing photos of yaks grazing under the elevated solar panels.

Obama's climate - change initiative charges the U.S. Department of the Interior, which protects America's natural resources, with permitting enough renewable energy — in the form of solar panels, wind farms and geothermal plants — to power millions of homes.