Sentences with phrase «of the roof panels»

An inspection on 13 local building projects that sourced materials from the Chinese supplier of roof panels for the Perth Children's Hospital, which were later found to contain asbestos, has produced no trace of the deadly material.

You can also plug weld the driprail into the door opening area of the roof panel.

Concern: Because the switch is not recessed, the roof panel switch may inadvertently be pressed resulting in unintended auto - closure of the roof panel, increasing the risk of personal injury.

Easy removal of the roof panels and rear - roof assembly enables quick conversion from a closed vehicle to an open one.

This three story house offers endless hours of playtime fun; for an added bonus one of the roof panels doubles up as a beautiful garden.

Not exact matches

Van der Werff is CEO of Ecolibrium Solar (No. 443 on the 2017 Inc. 500), a $ 27.2 million maker of hardware that connects sunlight - absorbing panels to roofs.

Adding solar panels or a small wind turbine on the roof of a building will likely generate enough energy to power most offices or small shops!

Thousands of trees have been planted, paths have been paved, and the building's roof has been covered in solar panels.

As well, this particular model was fitted with the $ 4,000 option of a roof - integrated solar panel that powers the car's cabin ventilation system, obviously conceived to allow you to quiet any hostile and righteous Prius drivers hurling abuse your way at red lights.

«With our investment platform, even if we can't put panels on everyone's roof today, we can still give many of them an opportunity to participate in solar's growth.»

The move is a novel way for the San Mateo, Calif., company to finance the enormous cost of installing panels on thousands of roofs — a typical residential system costs $ 25,000 — while appealing to retail investors who are on the hunt for better rates of return than they can find in savings accounts and government bonds.

Long before today's perceived energy crisis, PowerLight was perfecting its patented system — an array of panels that sit on top of a roof, thereby protecting and insulating it — to the point where the company now offers a 20 - year warranty.

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.

They're mounted on top of existing roofs like traditional panels, but they are arguably less bulky, with no mounting hardware visible.

For example, thousands of families not only have solar panels on the roofs of their houses but also have the right to sell electricity back to PG&E.

It's possible Musk didn't want to overshadow the launch of Tesla's solar roofs, or risk having customers conflate the two products — while the new panels are sleek, they're certainly not as attractive as an actual roof.

But now, with the growing popularity of solar panels, those customers are now producing power on their roofs and sending it back onto the power grid.

The cost of decking out a 100 - square - metre roof on a German home with solar panels has dropped to about $ 22,000 from $ 28,000 six months ago.

It offers people a way to skip buying the solar panels on their roofs in favor of a deal whereby they agree to purchase the power those panels generate from Sunrun, which owns and maintains them.

A SolarCity Corp. employee carries a solar panel being installed on the roof of a home in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, Photo: Patrick T. Fallon — Bloomberg

Squeezing Costs In a suburban neighborhood in San Mateo, I watch Victor Fernandez, the foreman of a SolarCity installation crew, direct workmen placing rectangular black panels on the roof of a ranch house.

That turns out to be a generally useful capability, and a different part of the Map team is able to reuse that for a satellite - imagery analysis task where they wanted to find roof tops in the U.S. or around the world to estimate the location of solar panel installations on rooftops.

The roof of the facility's main ring - shaped building, which houses some 12,000 employees, is covered entirely with solar panels.

The solar roof was an integral part of convincing shareholders and analysts that an electric - car maker and solar - panel installer was a simple, obvious pairing.

Tesla will offer four types of shingles to match different housing aesthetics in an effort to get homeowners to ditch clunky solar panel add - ons in favor of a beautiful roof.

Virtually impossible to run the AC from a solar panel the size of a car roof.

Whereas traditional solar panels are usually mounted on top of existing shingles, the basic goal of Steel Pulse was to make the roof itself solar powered, so it looked like a normal roof, yet generated electricity through embedded solar cells.

«Timing and strategy shifts for cell and module manufacturing were either as a result of wanting to increase the capacity of the facility or transition our focus to Solar Roof rather than traditional panels,» a Tesla spokesperson says via email.

In parallel to the start of production of traditional solar panels in New York, Tesla has announced plans to begin production of its newest Solar Roof tiles at its Fremont factory by the end of June.

Solar roof tiles cost nearly twice as much as a solar system comprised of traditional solar panels, coming in, on average, at a price range between $ 30,000 - $ 50,000 compared to $ 10,000 - $ 20,000 for panel - based rooftop solar system.

He pointed to where a glass roof panel will be removed and a 45 - foot fig tree will be lifted by crane into one of the spheres, one of 40 to 50 trees that will be installed.

We can mount panels on the roofs of those reservoirs, but the panels will be owned and operated by the private company.

By breaking down solar panel ownership to a single cell we reduce the cost of going solar by two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.»

Solar panels on the roof of SunPower's facility in Richmond, Calif..

After Honer lost truckloads of meat, poultry, seafood and other products requiring refrigeration to an outage, he purchased solar panels for the store's roof and a 400 - kilowatt generator.

In addition, in 2011, we installed solar panels on our roof, and about 95 percent of [our] electricity is powered by solar.»

Solar energy is the primary source of power at the plant, drawn from 670 solar panels that have been fitted on the roof and linked to a 110kW solar photovoltaic electrical system.

And their attention to «green» doesn't stop with the food — the building features a living roof and an array of over 50 solar panels to offset the drive - through's energy needs.

Henk Kamp, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, has given out SDE + (Encouraging Sustainable Energy Production) subsidies of more than $ 200m ($ 239m) for the installation of solar panels at the roofs of FrieslandCampina member dairy farms.

A total of 968 solar panels are being installed on the island, both on the ground and some to be raised on roofs, to complete the biggest construction project the island has ever seen.

Drumlin Farm's Nature Center has 48 photovoltaic roof panels (7.9 kW), which supply an amount equivalent to 25 percent of the Nature Center's energy needs.

The outside of the building will demonstrate environmental sustainability with the use of photovoltaic panels and a partial «green» roof.

Other things are a little more complicated: we compost, I save all of our vegetable peelings in a bag in the freezer and make them into stock at the end of the week, and we've just had solar panels fitted to the roof of our house.

Our factory is also converting over to 100 % solar power as they are in the process of completing a project to line the entire facility roof top with solar panels.

Short - term, he wants common - sense steps like solar panels on the roofs of county - owned buildings.

Among the projects that will receive funds are the completion of repairs to the swimming pool area at BronxWorks, a green roof and solar panels for Rocking the Boat and new refrigerated delivery vans for God's Love We Deliver, which helps provide nutritious meals for those living with life - altering illnesses.

Canopy panels were installed above the gas stations fueling pumps, as well as on top of the store's roof.

Tesla says it is looking for several hundred more workers for its plant in South Buffalo, as production of solar panels and solar roofs increases.

Today's issue of CML News & Views also looks at the issue of leasing your roof for solar panels.

The invention of silver and plastic - clad roof panels that can cool themselves down even under the Sun's full glare promise to make air conditioning much more energy - efficient.