Sentences with phrase «photovoltaic systems»

According to a new report funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, homebuyers have consistently been willing to pay more for a property with owned solar photovoltaic systems (PV), regardless of home type or market.

Many are using Photovoltaic systems, which use solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity.

Both solar thermal and photovoltaic systems have been reviewed as ways to reduce non-renewable energy requirements on site.

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Solar Panel Installers are responsible for placing solar photovoltaic systems near buildings or on their roofs.

Katherine Gensler, senior manager for government affairs for the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group that represents both big solar developers and manufacturers of smaller photovoltaic systems, says federal incentives aimed at jump - starting large - scale solar development made 2010 a banner year for new U.S. installations.

via:: CNET Navy installs solar in Hawaii The Pacific Business News is reporting that the Navy has installed solar photovoltaic systems for the housing in some of its Oahu bases.

Environmental Building News calculates that the cost is a modest $ 5 - $ 7 per watt of installed capacity, which, they point out, is roughly comparable to photovoltaic systems, and cheaper than building - integrated PVs.

Most of the entries were built with recycled / reused materials and sport rainwater tanks and solar photovoltaic systems.

Bloomberg says the LCOE for photovoltaic systems is about US$ 0.10 per solar kilowatt hour, compared with a current levelized cost for coal in Asia of about US$ 0.07.

Moving to cut energy use in new homes by more than 50 %, the California Energy Commission (CEC) has adopted building standards that require solar photovoltaic systems starting in 2020.

The photovoltaic systems are scheduled to produce about 6,750 kWh of electricity annually, while the solar thermal panel has the capability to pre warm enough domestic hot water to provide 85 % of the annual demand.

In today's solar photovoltaic systems, direct current power coming from solar panels is converted to alternating current power, making it compatible with a building's electrical distribution.

Installations of solar photovoltaic systems have nearly doubled in each one of the last three years, exceeding 1.8 gigawatts in 2011.

Meanwhile, renewables were up — with 6.3 GW of wind turbines and 4.7 GW of utility - scale solar photovoltaic systems added during the year, much of it toward the end of 2017.

In the dark freezing depths of winter, with a gale howling outside, everyone has their heating turned up high and all the lights switched on... and since the sun isn't shining the photovoltaic systems on the «Zero - Carbon Buildings» aren't generating electricity.

The sales pitch for the homes is that the photovoltaic systems can reduce electric bills to zero and avoid release of nearly 11,500 pounds of carbon dioxide annually, as well as around 40 pounds of SO2 and 30 pounds of NOx that would be emitted if coal - generated energy was used in a newly - built home.

When will small photovoltaic systems become affordable for home owners?

Most small - scale solar photovoltaic systems are installed on building rooftops.

Photovoltaic systems use conducting material to convert sunlight directly to electricity and need only nominal amounts of water to wash their solar panels, compared with the traditional steam - turbine solar that uses much larger volumes of water for cooling towers.

2 Small - scale solar photovoltaic systems are electricity generators with less than one megawatt of electricity generating capacity that are usually at or near the location where the electricity is consumed.

But meeting the world's total energy demands in 2030 with renewable energy alone would take an estimated 3.8 million wind turbines (each with twice the capacity of today's largest machines), 720,000 wave devices, 5,350 geothermal plants, 900 hydroelectric plants, 490,000 tidal turbines, 1.7 billion rooftop photovoltaic systems, 40,000 solar photovoltaic plants, and 49,000 concentrated solar power systems.

We feel their entry really pushes the envelope, for the contest and for all of the architects out there designing green roofs and photovoltaic systems in conjunction.

This activity report presents GEF's work in Sudan to promote solar photovoltaic systems and bring much needed electricity to homes across the country.

For many applications, solar water heaters, solar photovoltaic systems, small hydro and various energy efficiency options are mature, cost - effective technologies with decreasing costs and substantial environmental and economic benefits.

These figures do not include small - scale installations such as residential rooftop solar photovoltaic systems.

Plus more people are installing rooftop solar photovoltaic systems, and clean wind power is vastly expanding nationally (see study by eminent environmentalist Lester Brown cited at CalCars Kudos).

Through the state's program to increase our use of renewable energy to 25 percent by 2013 (from our current 19 percent), incentives are available for installing photovoltaic systems.

Photovoltaic systems, wind turbines, hydroelectric power stations are more efficient and cost effective at a larger scale than a single building.

Similarly, the solar hot water and photovoltaic systems are very sensitive to the cloud cover.

Rural locations may seem to offer good conditions for photovoltaic systems, wind turbines or hydroelectric generation to all be considered.

The same buildings may shade the site compromising opportunities for photovoltaic systems.

Consider, for example that, aside from California, North Carolina installed more solar photovoltaic systems last year than any other state in the country, with enough solar installations now to meet the needs of close to 100,000 homes.

Unless otherwise specified, only solar photovoltaic systems are accepted for these programs, and the incentive amount you collect will be the rebate rate multiplied by the number of watts of your proposed solar energy system.

It applies to solar photovoltaic systems between 1 kW and 20 kW in installed capacity, and the program will accommodate only up to 5 MW of installations, so get your foot in the door while you can.

Some RAV4 EVs recharge from rooftop photovoltaic systems and emit nothing.

A high - resolution determination of the technical potential for residential - roof - mounted photovoltaic systems in Germany.

Office supply giant Staples has adopted EnergySage's online solar marketplace to help its customers comparison - shop for solar photovoltaic systems.

The Greek Environment and Energy Ministry is planning to impose an extraordinary levy on photovoltaic systems on rooftops used for the production of electricity as a result of pressure from the country's international creditors to bring the electricity market's deficit down to zero by 2014.

Environmental, economic, and social factors have always been among the main considerations of the Santa Margherita Wine Group: we have established land management policies, implemented from Alto Adige down to Sicily; we've made major investments in energy - saving and renewable photovoltaic systems that have revolutionized our largest winery; and we have recently completed a biomass plant.

JCM projects use Japanese technological expertise to deploy various approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as the installation of energy - efficient transmission lines in Mongolia; the installation of energy - efficient systems in the national hospitals of Vietnam; the installation of energy - efficient refrigeration at commercial food processing centers in Indonesia; the installation of solar photovoltaic systems in the Maldives and Palau; and power generation by waste heat recovery in the cement industry in Indonesia.

Zhifeng Wang Head of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic Systems Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science zhifeng (at) vip.sina.com

Solar Rising LLC is company specializing in the sales, design, installation and maintenance of photovoltaic systems throughout Massachusetts.

I'm happy to announce the publication of my most recent report, Global Markets and Technologies for Photovoltaic Systems, by the research company BCC Research.

The prices of photovoltaic systems have dropped like crazy over the past few years, and they'll go even lower, I'm sure.

Other states such as New York, which has a major restructuring of its electricity sector underway, suspended its cap on solar photovoltaic systems covered by the state's net metering program in October.

Solar Panels or Photovoltaic Systems are solar cells that capture light energy from the sun and convert it directly into electricity.

The study finds that the growing need for a secure energy supply is driving power users to invest in distributed generation, using technologies such as small engines or turbines, fuel cells or photovoltaic systems.

Photovoltaic systems must provide electricity for the residence, and must meet applicable fire and electrical code requirements.

That could change, thanks to the advent of solar photovoltaic systems with backup battery storage (solar + storage).