Sentences with phrase «photovoltaic panels»

There are photovoltaic panels, a solar - heated swimming pool and other energy - saving amenities.

The price to buy solar panels has dropped significantly, and today's photovoltaic panels are much more efficient than just a few years ago.

«When I'm with a buyer, I can guide them to homes with solar hot water or photovoltaic panels or point out tax credits and incentives for improvements they may want to make after purchase.

Claim against contractor by developer of a $ 12.5 million solar project in Arizona involving 45,000 ground mounted photovoltaic panels (sole arbitrator)

Those who have the means can cut down on their carbon footprint big - time by investing in cutting - edge energy savers such as photovoltaic panels, geothermal heating and hybrid cars.

The south - facing solar photovoltaic panels will provide approximately 1.5 Megawatts of electricity to the building.

Following British Gas's launch of solar photovoltaic products last week, the high street retailer said it had partnered with Scottish and Southern Energy to offer solar photovoltaic panels and solar thermal systems.

Designers of an innovative project under construction are erecting solar photovoltaic panels on the slope of a dam across a river in Maharashtra.

Now he's fighting Chevron Energy Solutions» Lucerne Valley Solar Project, a field of thin - film photovoltaic panels on 516 acres that has gotten an enthusiastic thumbs - up from environmental groups.

He points to the popularity of California programs that offer homeowners loans to install photovoltaic panels and improve their homes» energy efficiency.

A coalition of scientists and local land conservationists calling itself Solar Done Right envisions roofing homes, commercial buildings and parking lots throughout the Southwest with a vast network of photovoltaic panels, each connected to the rest through the power grid.

The energy for the approximately 140 households basically comes from wind turbines with installed capacity of 500 kilowatts (kW) and photovoltaic panels with 440 kW, supported by a battery system with 800 kW capacity.

It turned out First Solar Development Inc. was planning to build the bucolically named Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, an array of thin - film photovoltaic panels spread across 7,040 acres that is expected to generate 550 megawatts.

In the first episode, Tommy Lee and Ludacris duke it out in the «Raise the Roof» Challenge, which pits the green rivals (and their «ecorages») in a race to see who can successfully raise the roof on a Solar LifePort — complete with solar photovoltaic panels from Suntech Solar Technology — in the least amount of time.

A new generation of cheaper photovoltaic panels and wind turbines can be managed with simple smart - grid devices.

The 30 metre long sails, festooned in photovoltaic panels are expected to catch enough wind to reduce fuel costs by between 20 % and 40 %, whilst those PV cells will provide the ships with 5 % of their electricity.

Germany is by far the world's biggest solar energy market thanks to its «feed - in» tariffs, which pay a government - guaranteed premium of up to â «¬ 0.47 a kilowatt hour for power produced by photovoltaic panels.

The next stop on the tour is an experimental site for testing photovoltaic panels.

The city's builders estimate that by putting photovoltaic panels on all of this roof space, around three million square meters, they can create just about enough energy to meet the needs of the entire city (an estimated 200 - 230MW of electricity).

The Tiny Drop has the capability to filter its own water and get its power from rooftop solar photovoltaic panels, giving the occupants the option to go off - grid if needed.

The house as a ground source heat pump for heating and cooling, and photovoltaic panels on the solar canopy providing shelter on the roof.

and you will find that «photovoltaic panels and hot - water panels would clash with each other on roofs.»

«Many resorts are using photovoltaic panels, and about 35 resorts now are buying green power.»

It's true that over the past five years, the cost of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels — the current solar technology of choice — has fallen 80 percent, as China has ramped up manufacturing and the efficiency of cells improves incrementally.

Solar photovoltaic panels on individual buildings or local windmills are distributed generation, while large hydro and wind farms are central generation requiring transmission and distribution (T&D).

If you have a sunny roof, then install photovoltaic panels and you can produce clean electricity yourself and sell the excess back to the utility (in most states).

Photovoltaic panels, generate electricity with some left over to sell through the National Grid.

The house package itself is said to sport rooftop solar photovoltaic panels, a 2kW BlueGen fuel cell converting natural gas into electricity, an electric car, OLED TV, state of the art lighting solutions (controlled plasma, CFL, LED).

The project, which was developed in partnership with PSEG allows Mars to purchase the output of the system and PSEG to still maintain ownership of the entire 18 - acre solar garden - a financing system that is becoming more and more popular across the US.Four months and 28,680 ground - mounted photovoltaic panels later, the Mars North America Headquarters has flipped the switch on their solar garden and now earns the distinction of largest solar array on a food manufacturing plant in New Jersey.

Photovoltaic panels shade a parking lot outside Kibbutz Yotvata.

But the MS Tûranor Planet Solar catamaran is better than beautiful: the photovoltaic panels that completely cover its deck and fold out from its sides like wings provide 93 kW of solar capacity, equivalent to about 127 horsepower.

Holmes County, Ohio, which is known for having the world's largest Amish population, is already a hot bed of solar power: an estimated 80 % of Amish families have embraced the use of photovoltaic panels.

Brown is also working on an off - grid, solar - powered dryer that would draw power in the daytime from rooftop photovoltaic panels.

Active solar techniques include the use of photovoltaic panels (solar panels) and solar thermal collectors to harness the energy.

We are aware that energy prices are rising, and we have seen the cost of photovoltaic panels and other components drop considerably over the last few years.

Distillery North's environmental features include a rooftop garden, photovoltaic panels, and sustainable transportation amenities including electric vehicle charging stations, carshare spaces, and carpooling.

For example, the nitrogen trifluoried used in manufacture of photovoltaic panels is about 17,000 times as powerful as CO2 for global warming, so an estimate of the amount leaking into the environment from the manufacturing process has to be included.

In the last ten years, the defining development in solar energy has been the sharp drop in the prices of photovoltaic panels.

Solar power stations using photovoltaic panels without concentration of sun - light require little water; those that concentrate sun - light and solar - thermal power stations require substantial volumes of water for cooling.

A full 29 percent of all new electricity installations were solar, with developers installing 4.75 gigawatts worth of photovoltaic panels — a growth of 41 percent over 2012.

I didn't know, nor did she mention in her speach, that she and her husband, Geoff, have 30 solar photovoltaic panels (1920 Watts) on their roof and have solar water heating.

But with some solar fields covering as many as 3,000 acres it would take a lot of squeegees to clean all those photovoltaic panels.

Within the loop of this track now sits a solar farm made up of 19,000 photovoltaic panels.

But in addition to that echo of the tragic past, there is an installation that points to a hopeful future: 15 solar photovoltaic panels.

In the US, solar energy grew by 38 percent (0.15 quads), buoyed by a decrease in the price of photovoltaic panels over the past decade.

Photovoltaic panels were expensive and inefficient.

Photovoltaic panels, tankless water heaters and Energy Star appliances slash monthly power bills.

The rooftop solar thermal panels produce hot water that flows through radiant tubing in the floors to heat the house; the rooftop photovoltaic panels are net - metered so that during the week when we're in L.A. and the house is empty and the energy goes unused, it is pumped directly back into the grid and creates a credit at the local utility.

Also housing the Park 20 20 Development Office, the Pavilion incorporates Cradle to Cradle Certified materials and onsite energy generation through roof mounted photovoltaic panels.

Studies have found that if you install solar photovoltaic panels on your roof, that increases the odds that your neighbors will install their own panels.