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 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.»
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.
Not exact matches
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.
«at 800 treefree ha for the
solar (to match
output from a 1600 MW nuclear, multiply that to 16,600 ha; the wind
farm will require tree free land
of 27,500 ha on the same basis.»
Another facet
of the reports on Victoria's taxpayers» heroism is that the demands on surface area are far from negligible, at 800 treefree ha for the
solar (to match
output from a 1600 MW nuclear, multiply that to 16,600 ha; the wind
farm will require tree free land
of 27,500 ha on the same basis.
In this model, local governments and grid operators can coordinate the
output of independent
solar arrays and wind
farms — which operate intermittently and at different hours — with hydropower, biogas, and other low - carbon resources, thus simulating the
output of a 24 - hour power plant.
I would like to see the environmental impact statement for 400 one gigawatt wind /
solar farms (average
output over a calendar year) and the lead / acid battery production facilities necessary to back each
of them up over all anticipated combinations
of overcast / calm / darkness to ensure that the 400 gigawatt baseload capacity was available with a reliability equal to or superior to that
of the fossil fuel plants that they replaced.
Wind
farms and
solar require backup power almost as large as their own
output and the backup is usually
of the more expensive type for fast peak switching.
Though Wall Street and investment banks have been getting hit hard by public criticism over the last few months, most wind
farm projects and
solar panel companies will look for private investment to generate an upswing
of output — and if investors aren't willing to invest, the equity side
of renewable energy deals could find itself in a complete standstill.