Sentences with phrase «photovoltaic capacity»

«What that got you to was somewhere around 80 gigawatts of photovoltaic capacity by 2030,» Steger says.

In Australia between 2010 and 2015, solar photovoltaic capacity grew from 130 megawatts to 4.7 gigawatts — an annual growth rate of 96 per cent.

More solar photovoltaic capacity was added in the European Union in 2011 than any other source of electricity generation.

«Since the 1970s, installed solar photovoltaic capacity has grown tremendously [but] rapid growth has led to concerns regarding the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of photovoltaics production,» they write.

In Germany, 8.5 gigawatts of new photovoltaic capacity were added in 2010.

The total photovoltaic capacity is now 937MW (only about 1 % of the total renewable energy.)

The currently installed photovoltaic capacity in Chile to May was admittedly still very small at 176 MW.

China plans to increase wind and solar power capacity by more than 21 percent and have at least 20 gigawatts of new wind power installations and 15 gigawatts of additional photovoltaic capacity next year, according to the NEA statement.

Check this site and go down to the post named The Glittering Future of Solar Power: Prognostication of Photovoltaic Capacity Extrapolated from Historical Trends.

Adding wind and solar photovoltaic capacity to the grid may require augmenting the amount of peak - load plants, which can be done relatively cheaply by adding gas turbines, which can be fueled by sustainably - produced biofuels or natural gas.

New solar photovoltaic capacity drives nearly all of the growth in solar generation, with increases coming from both the electric power sector and end - use sectors such as distributed or customer - sited generation (i.e., rooftop installations).

An IER study shows that the levelized cost [vii] of new wind capacity is 2.7 times more expensive than the levelized cost of existing coal - fired capacity and the levelized cost of new solar photovoltaic capacity is 3.5 times as expensive as the levelized cost of existing coal - fired capacity.

As the eclipse waxed and waned, output from Germany's 38.2 gigawatts of photovoltaic capacity dropped 15 GW, then climbed back.

According to BSW - Solar Association, photovoltaic capacity will quadruple by 2020.

New solar photovoltaic capacity increased by 50 percent in 2016 according to the International Energy Agency.

Cumulative and Newly - Installed Solar Photovoltaics Capacity in Ten Leading Countries and the World, 2013 (XLS)

Cumulative and Newly - Installed Solar Photovoltaics Capacity in Ten Leading Countries and the World, 2013

Not exact matches

Last year, new photovoltaic panels installed in the U.S. had the capacity to generate up to 4.2 gigawatts of electricity, about as much as four nuclear reactors.

In its 2016 review, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) reports that the country nearly doubled its capacity during the year after installing 14.8 GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells.

This is the first time CAISO has achieved these levels, reflecting an almost 50 % growth in utility - scale solar photovoltaic installed capacity in 2016.

In the 113 years between the discovery of the physics behind photovoltaic solar cells and the year 2000, less than 2 gigawatts of solar power capacity was installed around the world.

UCLA researchers have developed photovoltaic cells with twice the energy harvesting capacity of cells developed in 2012.

Since 2008, production capacity of both photovoltaic (PV) modules used to assemble solar panels and wind turbines has doubled annually.

I am not convinced that that is true, but in any case intermittent distributed electricity production from wind and photovoltaics can dramatically reduce the «need» for baseline generation capacity.

(Europe has three - quarters of the world's total installed capacity of solar photovoltaic energy.)

Two photovoltaic power plants, in essence, are going to be built in California, covering a total of 12.5 square miles and amounting to 800 megawatts of generating capacity (although remember that the peak is only hit for a small portion of the day).

Despite difficult financial circumstances, the global solar industry added additional capacity of 6.4 gigawatts in 2009, according to a new assessment by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association.

PV Magazine reports that NREL's new analysis of the technical potential of solar photovoltaics and concentrating solar power in the US places the total amount that can be installed just under 200,000 GW, capable of generating just under 400,000 Terawatt - hours annually — hugely exceeding the electricity generating capacity of the US for 2010 of 4,125 TWh.

to reach net - zero electricity use through exceptional efficiency and adding photovoltaic (PV) capacity to meet the remaining electrical demand; and

But while Spain and neighboring Portugal, both countries with similar climes, are rapidly ramping up their solar capacity (not to mention setting wind - power production records), there are only 2 MW worth of photovoltaics installed in Turkey.

Solar Photovoltaics (PV) are already growing rapidly and has been the fastest - growing renewable energy technology in the world over the last decade: the IEA believes that cumulative PV capacity has grown at just under 50 per cent per year on average since 2003.

Through December 2015, CSP made up 8 % of total U.S. solar electric generating capacity, while utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) made up 53 %, and distributed solar PV made up 38 %.

Rapid deployment of solar photovoltaics (PV), led by China and India, helps solar become the largest source of low - carbon capacity by 2040, by which time the share of all renewables in total power generation reaches 40 %.

Incumbent solar photovoltaic companies with established revenue streams and profits are best positioned to leverage the tax credit by investing in manufacturing capacity.

The United States has slightly more than 20,000 megawatts (MW) of solar generating capacity, which includes utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal installations, as well as distributed generation solar PV systems, also known as rooftop solar.

If a reader has the $ / kW (stated), discount rate (assume 8 %), capacity factor (missing) and projected years of operation (stated) one can use my worksheet «A Financial Worksheet for Computing the Cost (US cents / kWh) of Solar Electricity Generated at Grid Connected Photovoltaic (PV) Generating Plants» that was published in the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, August, 2002, Vol.

Faced with the on - going nuclear crisis in Japan — the costs of which could make the March earthquake and subsequent tsnuami the most expensive natural disaster the world has ever seen — nearby China may be moving to double its target for solar photovoltaic (PV) power capacity over the next five years.

In addition to leading the nation in utility - scale solar capacity, California also has a significant level of behind - the - meter residential and commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity.

Using new information, EIA combines data on utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity with customer - sited PV capacity, as reported in the graphic.

But capital costs are the real show - stoppers: for photovoltaics, at $ 3 / peak watt current prices (solar thermal systems are roughly the same), even in an ideal location, 2000 TWh / yr requires about 1 TW peak capacity, or $ 3 trillion capital investment.

Solar thermal capacity additions also continue to be outpaced by solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity additions, even though solar PV has only meaningfully entered the utility - scale market in the past few years.

Solar photovoltaic (PV) added 2,193 MW of capacity in 2013, continuing the trend of the past few years of strong growth, helped in part by falling technology costs as well as aggressive state renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and continued federal investment tax credits.

Whether installing a complete solar battery storage system or adding energy storage to an existing photovoltaic array, one of the first questions to come up is «How much capacity is required?».

However, it does rate highly when it comes to the amount of solar power generation capacity installed statewide (third in the nation), as well as the energy cost savings residents and businesses can and are realizing from solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

Already active in onshore wind and photovoltaic renewable generation, E.ON has added energy storage to its portfolio and has developed and constructed more than 3,600 megawatts of renewable capacity in the United States since 2007.

Last year, the IEA reports that more solar photovoltaic generating capacity was added to the globe's energy mix than coal, gas or any other energy source.

Of the 475 MW of capacity that came online in February, 81 % was wind, 16 % was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 % was hydro and biomass.»

That auction, offering the chance to build 300 megawatts of solar capacity, was so oversold that it attracted bids totaling 2,200 megawatts, at rates well below the 7.04 rupees per kilowatt - hour that the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission has determined is the threshold of viability for solar photovoltaic projects.

Capacity of the photovoltaic and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) IPP — based projects currently under construction is 1,500 MW.

More on solar power: if 15 percent of present world rooftop area were to be used to site photovoltaics with an assumed conversion efficiency of 20 %, the current global electricity power capacity would be created.