Sentences with phrase «of solar home systems»

Ilumexico is seeking capital to provide micro-loans to rural customers for the purchase of solar home systems.

Here's an amazing development tool that will map houses in rural areas and, using an algorithm that draws on population density and other data, show the most rational way to link them into a network of solar home systems and minigrids.

Batteries are one of the more expensive components of a solar home system and contribute significantly to the cost barrier of decent lighting systems in rural communities.

Not exact matches

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

Meanwhile, Tesla slipped toward second place in terms of installed solar panel home systems.

Traction: In December, Orora installed its solar Home Lighting Systems in an Irula community in Southern India, which has only six hours of electricity access each day.

The company's revenue projection for 2015, based on selling 1,500 units of its Solar Home Lighting System, is $ 250,000.

Last month, regulators approved a new plan that tacks on fees and lowers compensation paid to owners of home and commercial solar systems.

Think of the beliefs of the past — the Earth is the center of the solar system, the world is flat, you can't break the sound barrier, you can't run the mile in under four minutes, and there's no need for a computer in the home.

Specifically, the SEC wants to know whether the companies are sufficiently disclosing the number of customers who cancel contracts for home solar systems, once they have signed up, the report said, citing a person familiar with the matter.

ALBANY, NY (12/02/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson was today joined by local stakeholders and representatives of enXco and Mercury Solar Systems in announcing the beginning construction phase of the Suffolk Solar Carport Project which is expected to deliver up to 17 megawatts, enough to power nearly 1,800 homes with clean renewable energy for LIPA customers.

«It's been in a deep freeze at 400 degrees below zero all that time, so it's a perfectly preserved relic from the birth of our home solar system,» Stern says of the 4 billion - year - old object.

Both LEDs and solar photovoltaic systems would cut electricity consumption and monthly expenses as well as lower the impact of home lighting on the environment.

What use is it to those homeowners, who have installed a modest solar panel system on their roofs, when the sun is heating the pavement in the middle of the day and no one at home to use the energy?

Our own Kuiper Belt, which extends outward from Neptune's orbit, is home to many dwarf planets, comets, and other small bodies left over from the formation of the solar system.

«Using the battery of mobile phones in small solar home systems becomes obvious in order to make access to electricity easier to those who live without.»

The Milky Way galaxy, home of Earth and the solar system, appears to harbor at least one such object within its nucleus.

Steve: And you talk about the fact that, though, to accomplish this — and you're not sure that right now we really have what it takes to accomplish it — but in order to accomplish it, we're going to have to put in place not just some strategies but an entire [ly] new system and one of the things you talk about is the problems you personally had just trying to install a couple of solar panels at your home.

The main topics covered at the KIT booth will be the Helmholtz «Energy Lab 2.0» research platform, the «SafetyFirst» project for efficient home storage systems, and experience gained from the operation of Germany's largest solar power storage park for research at KIT (hall 1B, booth B1.154 and special exhibit «Smart Renewable Energy»).

A 2014 Rocky Mountain Institute report on grid defection suggested that by 2020 in some parts of the U.S., especially Hawaii, California and New York, the cost and reliability of a home or business fully powered using a self - contained solar photovoltaic and battery system is quickly approaching «grid parity.»

Red dwarfs have lifetimes of trillions of years, making them desirable as long - term homes once we leave the solar system.

This is the inaugural meeting for TESS, which is a first of its kind: uniting the various research groups that study the sun - Earth connection from explosions on the sun to their effects near our home planet and all the way out to the edges of the solar system - a research field collectively known as heliophysics.

Astronomers have for the first time detected ingredients in the atmosphere of a super-Earth, an exotic type of exoplanet of which there is no parallel in our solar system: It's larger than our home but not as large as a gas giant.

For more than 40 years, missions throughout the solar system have sent back stunning images of our home planet

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

For the first time, NASA is finally venturing out, visiting one of the oldest objects in the solar system — older than the planets themselves — and returning home with a piece of that ancient history.

A new book highlights the most unique locations in the solar system, some of which are surprisingly close to home

Though far past the planets, the mission continues to send back unprecedented observations of the space environment in the solar system, providing crucial information on the environment our spacecraft travel through as we explore farther and farther from home.

Indeed, liquid mixtures of water and ammonia have been reported in the interior of Saturn's moon Titan, considered by the committee to be one of the solar system's potentially promising homes to extraterrestrial life.

Then we leave our home planet to see more of the solar system's wonders, taking in a Martian sunset and a simulation of Saturn's dark side bathed in ring - shine.

«(2) The Secretary shall require, with respect to any single - or multi-family residential housing subject to a mortgage insured under this Act, that any approval or certification of the housing for meeting any energy efficiency or conservation criteria, standards, or requirements pursuant to this title and any approval or certification required pursuant to this title with respect to energy - conserving improvements or any renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar energy geothermal, or biomass, shall be conducted only by an individual certified by a home energy rating system provider who has been accredited to conduct such ratings by the Home Energy Ratings System Council, the Residential Energy Services Network, or such other appropriate national organization, as the Secretary may provide, or by licensed professional architect or enginhome energy rating system provider who has been accredited to conduct such ratings by the Home Energy Ratings System Council, the Residential Energy Services Network, or such other appropriate national organization, as the Secretary may provide, or by licensed professional architect or engsystem provider who has been accredited to conduct such ratings by the Home Energy Ratings System Council, the Residential Energy Services Network, or such other appropriate national organization, as the Secretary may provide, or by licensed professional architect or enginHome Energy Ratings System Council, the Residential Energy Services Network, or such other appropriate national organization, as the Secretary may provide, or by licensed professional architect or engSystem Council, the Residential Energy Services Network, or such other appropriate national organization, as the Secretary may provide, or by licensed professional architect or engineer.

More than half of that additional capacity — 5,251 MW — has been installed by home and business owners participating in utility net metering programs that allow owners of solar systems to sell excess capacity back to their local utility at retail rates, according to EIA.

Sharing the story, the science, and the adventure of NASA's scientific explorations of our home planet, the solar system, and the universe beyond!

If this finding is correct, that would mean the Milky Way is home to tens of billions of planets in habitable zones, concludes a team of scientists using an Earth - based telescope to look for planets beyond the solar system.

Beyond the Sun, its eight planets, and their larger moons, the solar system is home to a myriad of other, smaller bodies, including dwarf planets, asteroids, trojans, centaurs, and comets, all the way down to interplanetary dust particles.

For the star system within the Galaxy that is the home of Earth, see solar system.

This portfolio of activities engages audiences in the story, the science, and the adventure of NASA's scientific explorations of our home planet, the solar system, and the universe beyond.

There are «super-Earths» and «mini-Neptunes» that are bigger than our home planet, but smaller than the next - largest member of our solar system, Neptune.

Scientists found a diamond planet, a planet straight out of science fiction and orphan planets with no solar system to call home.

From the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our home.

This new set of observations adds key information to the models needed to track how material moves and changes throughout space in the solar system — crucial to understanding the medium through which our spacecraft travel, as we venture farther and farther from home.

Clearly, comets must have originated recently from the inner solar system (the home of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) to join Jupiter's family.

Orbital comparison between the TRAPPIST - 1 system, the moons of Jupiter, and the orbits of the planets that make up our home solar system

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Loans secured by your home will generally have lower interest rates, approximately 3.5 % to 6.5 %, than loans secured by the solar panel system, which range from 3.5 % to 13.24 %, because the borrower can repossess a larger asset with more value — your home — to recover the full balance due rather than a solar system that has likely lost part of its value over time.

Using a home equity loan or home equity line of credit (HELOC) is another option to pay for your solar panel system costs.

An inspection from Commonwealth Home Inspections will include all of the major items in your new home including but not limited to; structural and foundations, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing and flashings, attic insulation and ventilation, driveways and walkways, grading and siding, chimneys and fireplaces etc. (Sprinkler systems, solar systems, swimming pools, outdoor Jacuzzi, whole house vacuum systems and low voltage systems are not inspecHome Inspections will include all of the major items in your new home including but not limited to; structural and foundations, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing and flashings, attic insulation and ventilation, driveways and walkways, grading and siding, chimneys and fireplaces etc. (Sprinkler systems, solar systems, swimming pools, outdoor Jacuzzi, whole house vacuum systems and low voltage systems are not inspechome including but not limited to; structural and foundations, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing and flashings, attic insulation and ventilation, driveways and walkways, grading and siding, chimneys and fireplaces etc. (Sprinkler systems, solar systems, swimming pools, outdoor Jacuzzi, whole house vacuum systems and low voltage systems are not inspected)

If your system was connected by a professional solar installer, you or your real estate agent might promote the installer's reputation and the strength of their brand to make your home more attractive.

You may be entitled to a tax credit of up to 30 % of the installation cost of geothermal heat pumps and solar / wind energy systems and up to 30 % of the cost of residential fuel cells (max of $ 500 per 0.5 kilowatt of power) for both new construction and existing homes.

For those wanting to be «green» while on vacation, a new 52 - panel state - of - the - art solar photovoltaic system is installed on the roof of the home.