Sentences with phrase «rooftop panels»

It would not work with traditional solar rooftop panels.

In the case of rooftop panels, they can either be owned outright and rolled into the home price, or made available for lease on a monthly basis.

Around three out of four voters (76 percent) say the solar power should be generated from rooftop panels.

To date, solar power has mostly been available to utilities (as big power plants) or individual home and business owners (as rooftop panels).

The federal government expects a surge in renewable energy in the coming year, especially as solar expands from its traditional base of home rooftop panels to major utility - scale production.

The blocks could be part of the architecture of a building, generating more power than just rooftop panels.

Most of the buzz, at least among consumers, has been about solar, in rooftop panel form and, more recently, in Silicon Valley dreamer Elon Musk's plan to make solar shingles.

Australia - wide, solar — currently standing at 3.4 GW — is predicted by Bloomberg New Energy Finance to jump to 23GW by 2030, with 5 million homes installing rooftop panels.

Duke's recently proposed solar rebates are one piece of that mandate, giving homeowners who purchase rooftop panels $ 4,800 back, for example, on an outlay that could run close to $ 18,000.

are one piece of that mandate, giving homeowners who purchase rooftop panels $ 4,800 back, for example, on an outlay that could run close to $ 18,000.

But the math only works in places with so - called «net metering» laws, which require utilities to buy the electricity rooftop panels generate at prices far above what they pay for centralized power.

Buoyed by appeals to self reliance and environmental stewardship, as well as government subsidies, the early solar industry was dominated by rooftop panels that powered individual homes and businesses.

Generating power from residential rooftop panels is far more expensive, ranging from $ 184 to $ 300 a MWh before subsidies, the report said.

With 1,100 MW of rooftop panels on 350,000 buildings across Queensland, solar «is producing electricity just at the time that coal generators used to make hay.»

The price of such heaters may eventually be less than half that of today's solar thermal water heaters, which heat the water directly by piping it through rooftop panels.

He's been installing photovoltaic rooftop panels since the 1980s.

Solar is booming, too, with the U.S. market expected to double this year as rooftop panels become even more affordable for homeowners and businesses.

The company promoted an innovative solar power approach based off of modular lightweight rooftop panels composed of cylinders covered in thin - film PV units, under which the roof was painted white to increase reflectivity and ensure light got all sides of the cylinder.

Created with portability and durability in mind, the HANS ™ Solar BriefCase avoids the serious problems that make glass rooftop panels impractical for poor, remote communities.

In our final excerpt from his new book on the history of solar power, Let It Shine, author John Perlin describes a key moment in the debate over big, centralized solar sites and smaller, distributed rooftop panels.

The heady growth conjures up images of solar rooftop panels sprouting up as a common sight from West Coast to East Coast and points in between.

Japan's most ambitious renewable energy goals are those for solar photovoltaics (PV), mostly in rooftop panels.

The hub would integrate solar rooftop panels, be connected to the smart electricity grid to provide grid balancing and auxiliary services, and produce net economic benefits estimated at $ 1.35 million per year over 20 years.

■ Utility solar, not rooftop panels, feeds the duck.

And, for homeowners in states with favorable policies, rooftop panels can be a good investment, ultimately offering savings.

Rooftop panels are conventionally appended onto roofs via mounting systems, which he is not very fond of.

Renderings of a modernized airport appeared on a projector behind Cuomo during his speech, displaying an airport with solar rooftop panels, a glass pedestrian bridge and a newly - designed interior.

Insulation is usually inside the 4 wall panels of the dog house and in the rooftop panel.

One glaring gap, despite recent bursts of investment in solar - thermal power plants and rooftop panels, is cutting - edge research on translating the near - boundless energy of the sun into a cheap source of electricity in places that need it.

Even with the rapid growth in the number of residential solar installations, rooftop panels are still only providing one quarter of 1 percent of all electricity produced in the US.

The company also designs, makes and installs solar rooftop panels.

Participating homeowners who remain on tiered pricing plans are expected to have cheaper electricity from their rooftop panels than average grid electricity by 2015.

Boesel is also adding solar rooftop panels to help the gym further toward its goal of generating its own power.

The rooftop panels might be leased, so you'll have to deal with the leasing contract.

In addition to the rooftop panels, the project includes inverters to convert electricity generated by the modules from direct to alternating current, as well as utility - grade meters with remote monitoring capabilities.