Sentences with phrase «rooftop solar water»

Whether this comes from near universal rooftop solar water heating or village sized wind systems doesn't matter too much.

By the end of 2007, some 40 million Chinese homes will be getting their hot water from rooftop solar water heaters.

A third component is the greening of government buildings by making them more energy - efficient and, wherever possible, installing devices such as rooftop solar water and space heaters and rooftop solar electric arrays.

Among its features are a ground - source heat pump for heating and cooling, a rooftop solar water heater, and sleekly designed composting toilets that produce a rich humus used to fertilize the landscape surrounding the building.

Some technologies, such as rooftop solar water heaters, will be used virtually everywhere.

121 To achieve some goals, governments are simply using mandates, such as those requiring rooftop solar water heaters on all new buildings, higher efficiency standards for cars and appliances, or a ban on the sale of incandescent light bulbs.

The addition of close to 1,500 gigawatts of thermal heating capacity by 2020, roughly two thirds of it from rooftop solar water and space heaters, will sharply reduce the use of both oil and gas for heating buildings and water.

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.

Rooftop solar water and space heaters that directly convert sunlight into heat have been embraced in a number of countries but nowhere as much as in China.

note 108, p. 23; rooftop solar water and space heaters from Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op.

With 2,000 Chinese companies manufacturing rooftop solar water heaters, this relatively simple low - cost technology is not only widely used in cities, it has also leapfrogged into villages that do not yet have electricity.

The U.S. rooftop solar water heating industry has thus far concentrated on a niche market — selling and marketing 10 million square meters of water heaters for swimming pools between 1995 and 2005.

In China, some 160 million people now get their hot water from rooftop solar water heaters.

Roughly two thirds of this growth will come from rooftop solar water and space heaters.

note 2; hydropower, including tidal and wave, from IEA, Renewables in Global Energy Supply: An IEA Fact Sheet, pp. 13, 25, at www.iea.org/textbase; rooftop solar water and space heaters from IEA, Solar Heating and Cooling Program, Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2005 (Paris: April 2007); REN21, op.

They reused the pipes from a rooftop solar water heating system as deck fencing.

At the end of 2008, 40 million homes were getting their hot water from rooftop solar water heaters.

The man's real passion was solar energy, and he designed his own rooftop solar water heater.

Not exact matches

Peter Rive, the co-founder of SolarCity and the rooftop solar systems installer's chief technology officer, will be the first speaker in a University at Buffalo lecture series on energy, environment and water sustainability.

Each four - bedroom house will feature rooftop solar panels, a high - efficiency tankless water heater, super-insulated windows and airtight construction.

The rooftop solar panels heat the swimming pool and hot water in the 36 eco chic hotel rooms that feature sustainable bamboo flooring, chemical - free rugs and organic bathrobes.

The retrofit salvaged 75 percent of the original interiors and added rooftop solar panels, drought - tolerant landscaping, and a water - reclamation system that saves 2 million gallons a year.

And this building which will have rooftop gardens, water heated by solar, rainwater collection, natural light and ventilation and environmentally sensitive building materials will be deep in the heart of West Harlem (on 150th Street and Convent, for all you New Yorkers).

Musings about a possible Disney theme park and other attractions have raised concerns about the project's future direction; as it stands, the eco-city's plans would call for battery - powered buses; solar - powered water taxis; dense neighborhoods; and rooftop gardens, amongst other features.

San Francisco, just recently ranked the second greenest city in the US, forged a partnership yesterday with the Clinton Global Initiative to green the city's Civic Center.At the heart of San Francisco, the eco-friendly Civic Center will include solar rooftops, living roofs and water conservation fixtures.

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.

Housing 150 students, the halls have solar hot water heating, rooftop solar voltaic panels, operable windows and window fans coupled with mechanical / natural ventilation controls that shut off HVAC when windows are open, among other sustainable features.

The city aims to put solar panels on over 100,000 square feet of rooftops, which could generate 1.25 MW of renewable energy, and build another 850,000 square feet of water - resilient roofs, or blue roofs, which can retain over 500,000 gallons of water.

Its solar array provides 100 percent of our electricity and a rooftop solar thermal panel heats our water.

or it would pay for lot of community owned PV or solar water heating on rooftops in towns and cities instead of more industrial blight on the landscape.

The company's regional website, at www.GoSolar.LA, offers discounted rooftop solar electric and hot water installations from leading contractors, and $ 0 down financing programs — along with neighborhood - scale group - purchasing programs recently recognized for providing the lowest cost residential solar in the state of California.

Even more exciting, Beijing plans to more than double the current 124 million square meters of rooftop solar collectors for heating water to 300 million by 2020.

The Australian Bureau of Statistic reports that its latest figures show that 19 per cent of households nationally now currently either rooftop solar panels or solar powered hot water systems — up from about 5 per cent back in 2011, when the ABS first started publishing statistics on solar.

Japan, which now has 11 million square meters of rooftop solar collectors heating water but which imports almost all its fossil fuels, could easily reach 80 million square meters by 2020.

Inspired by the rapid adoption of rooftop water and space heaters in Europe in recent years, the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) has established an ambitious goal of 500 million square meters, or one square meter of rooftop collector for every European by 2020, a goal that exceeds the 0.74 square meters per person today in Israel, the world leader.

Janet Sawin of Worldwatch Institute notes that some 2 million Germans are now living in homes where water and space are both heated by rooftop solar systems.

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.

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.

Foundation Communities also installed a rooftop solar system along with water conservation measures at the property.

By World War II, solar water heaters dominated the rooftops of Miami and its surroundings.

There will also be millions of rooftops with solar water and space heaters.

Among its features are a ground source heat pump for heating and cooling, a rooftop solar heater for hot water, and sleekly designed composting toilets that produce a rich humus used to fertilize the landscape surrounding the building.

The waste heat from rooftop solar PV can be used in residential water (and space?)

Here» t is: A couple things to note, before you dive in: First, that 800 MW of installed solar capacity they attribute to China doesn't included the slew of rooftop solar units that the nation's larger cities are famous for (I guess they're mostly solar water heaters, but something on the graphic should note that achievement).

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The southern - facing rooftops will receive solar panels for water heating, though the wood - waste - based district heating will also provide warm water and heat back up.

The remaining 400 MW would come from a ballot measure to be voted upon next March, which would allow the city's Department of Water & Power to install rooftop solar panels on LA resident's homes.

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.