Sentences with phrase «rooftop photovoltaic»

Germany built its solar program with a pricing mechanism called feed - in tariffs, in which money collected from ratepayers is used to buy surplus power from owners of rooftop photovoltaic arrays at a guaranteed price per kilowatt - hour.

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

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.

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

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.

A rooftop photovoltaic system generates enough electricity to meet the building's energy needs.

Contributions from rooftop photovoltaic panels will be significant.

Fairmont Kea Lani's commitment to responsible tourism practices and sustainable hotel management takes another leap forward with the near completion of a rooftop photovoltaic project in June, 2016.

For example, the Internal Revenue Service will revamp its facility in Andover, Md., to reduce energy use by more than 25 percent through light monitors, rooftop photovoltaic solar cells, efficient electrical devices, and a geothermal heating and cooling system.

Clinton proposed a goal in July to install 500,000 solar panels by 2020, expanding the presence of rooftop photovoltaic technology sevenfold.

When it is sunny outside, the process reverses, and electricity from rooftop photovoltaic cells, which can generate up to 2.6 kilowatts of power at high noon, flows outward.

Net Zero Energy — Rooftop photovoltaic panels will generate enough energy to power the entire building as well as two barns and a wildlife enclosure

Some energy sources, like rooftop photovoltaics and most wind power, are not water hogs, but experts say they are not likely to fill the nation's growing power needs by themselves.

Rooftop solar water heaters have a capacity of 0.7 kilowatts per square meter and a capacity factor similar to rooftop photovoltaics (22 percent); nominal capacity from Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op.

Not exact matches

Take PowerLight Corp., a $ 10 - million company in Berkeley, Calif., that designs and manufactures photovoltaic arrays — solar - electric panels — and installs them on commercial and industrial rooftops.

Munich - based Phoenix Solar AG, a German photovoltaic system installer, has committed $ 615 million (450 million Euros) to purchasing Solyndra's cylindrical solar cells as a core part of its future rooftop installation business.

When photons (light particles) from the sun smash into the outer layer of the rooftop cell, they initiate the photovoltaic effect — a cascade of reactions across the charged layers, ultimately generating usable power.

Storing electricity from conventional photovoltaic cells requires batteries, which are impractical at rooftop scales and expensive at larger scales.

These homeowners have installed photovoltaic panels on their rooftops with the help of cash incentives and a state law that requires the local electricity provider — APS — to buy any excess power produced by an individual home.

«The large photovoltaic systems on the rooftops of the houses provide more power than the inhabitants consume over the long term.

In between, ubiquitous photovoltaics — the multicrystalline silicon solar panels cropping up on rooftops across the country and, indeed, the world — struggle to balance the need for (relatively) easy manufacturing and low cost with technology to get the most electrons for your solar buck.

Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop size.

Solar photovoltaics added 7.3 gigawatts (much of that on individual rooftops) and, in third place, came natural gas with 6 gigawatts.

For $ 150,000, a school can pay for a rooftop solar photovoltaic system and its installation.

The range extends from intelligent charging services for the home as well as tailor - made services right through to home energy storage units, which work for example in conjunction with photovoltaics installed on house rooftops.

Photovoltaic is installed on the rooftop to supplement the electrical supply This apartment is managed by the owners as a VRBO RENTAL.

The White House and Department of Energy have been pushing a national Rooftop Solar Challenge that's mainly aimed at eliminating a variety of bureaucratic hurdles at the local and regional level that are impeding broader deployment of photovoltaic panels.

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

The structure is powered by an off - grid photovoltaic generator and a rooftop rainwater collection system.

Other sustainable techs installed in the homes constructed by BaleHaus include rooftop mounted photovoltaic arrays, rainwater harvesting systems, and air - source heat pumps.

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.

Recent public votes, developments and activity have made it clear that a large majority of Floridians strongly support making solar energy more accessible, affordable and commonplace, whether it be in the form of individual solar rooftops, ground - mounted photovoltaic (PV) systems, community solar co-ops, or utility - scale solar power stations.

A rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system is a long - term investment in your property: that the typical warranty on a solar PV panels is 20 to 25 years.

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).

Built to LEED Gold standards, the facility features a wireless lighting control system, solar photovoltaic panels on the rooftop athletic facility, electric vehicle charging stations, drought - resistant native landscaping, and bioswales, which naturally treat storm water and other water and return it to the natural aquifer.

Rooftop solar photovoltaic panels generate more than 340,000 kilowatt - hours per year.

From the rooftop of an administrative building at Mohammed Bin Rashid Solar Park, one can gaze across the field of blue - grey photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon.

Commercial solar power is used by business establishments, such as office buildings, warehouses, and retail stores, which are able to install large groups of solar panels known as photovoltaic (PV) arrays, on unused land, rooftops, or parking structures.

Overall in 2030, J&D envision 50 % of global power demand will be met by wind, 20 % by concentrated solar thermal power, 14 % by solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants, 6 % by solar PV on rooftops, 4 % each by geothermal and hydroelectric, and 1 % each from waves and tides.

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

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

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.

A rooftop solar photovoltaic system offers myriad benefits to both building owners and the environment; to maximize the benefits, however, it is important to be aware of the potential causes and effects of problems with rooftop installations.

From this, they further predicted the amount of energy that could be produced from weather - related energy sources like onshore and offshore wind turbines, solar photovoltaics on rooftops and in power plants, concentrated solar power plants and solar thermal plants over time.

METRO Deutschland and E.ON are launching one of the largest connected photovoltaic rooftop systems in Germany in the future.

MI IPL's model uses «aggregation» (bulk buying) to drive down the cost of buying and installing solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, such as rooftop solar panels.

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.

Staying around for a photo under the photovoltaic rooftop canopy were Ron, Alec Brooks, Rolf Schreiber, David Shearer, Felix, Charles Baron, Brian Beidelman, and Carl Page.

However, by lumping together all types of solar technology as «solar systems,» the Senator brazenly ignores the distinction between solar photovoltaic technology - used in the typical rooftop solar panel - which uses virtually no water and concentrating solar power which has a higher water demand.

Including solar photovoltaics into the portfolio, particularly rooftop installations, however, leads to a significant cost increase but also to a more scattered capacity installation over the country.