Sentences with phrase «scale solar capacity»

California, for example, increased its utility - scale solar capacity by 3,500 MW in just two years — nearly the growth needed in New England over the next 14 years.2 Texas increased its onshore wind capacity by 7,300 MW in five years, which is more than both New England and New York would need to add by 2030.3 For offshore wind, Europe has exceeded the growth rate needed in the Northeast, increasing capacity roughly 16-fold in just 10 years.4

In a filing to the public utilities commission in the state of Colorado, Xcel Energy requested permission to include 170MW of new, utility - scale solar capacity and 450MW of wind energy capacity in the state.

With rapidly growing utility - scale solar capacity, CAISO has regularly recorded new hourly output records going back to 2010 when it first began publishing the daily data.

These values reflect utility - scale solar capacity additions, and do not include any distributed generation (i.e., rooftop solar).

In 2013, 2,145 MW of utility - scale solar capacity entered service in California, of which more than 500 MW came from large - scale solar thermal plants.

California accounted for more than 75 % of U.S. utility - scale solar capacity installed in 2013.

In addition to leading the nation in utility - scale solar capacity, California also has a significant level of behind - the - meter residential and commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity.

By the end of 2014, more than 2,300 MW of small - scale solar capacity was installed on homes and businesses, according to the California Public Utilities Commission.

California also created incentives, including rebates and net - metering policies, to encourage rooftop and other small - scale solar capacity, whose generation is not captured in the above figure.

In total, nearly 1,900 MW of new utility - scale solar capacity was added, bringing the state's utility - scale capacity for all solar technologies to 5,400 MW by the end of 2014.

Our staff has also found months where the total installed utility - scale solar capacity estimated by FERC has been smaller than individual projects which we have observed coming online in a given month.

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Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Total solar capacity in California (including both distributed and utility - scale systems) has grown from less than 1 GW in 2007 to nearly 14 GW by the end of 2016.

This is the first time CAISO has achieved these levels, reflecting an almost 50 % growth in utility - scale solar photovoltaic installed capacity in 2016.

Founded in 2011, ReNew Power is a leading Indian renewable energy developer and operator with clean energy capacity diversified across wind, utility - scale solar,...

ERCOT is expecting another 387 MW of additional utility - scale solar to come online by summer, and given the higher peak capacity contribution this will be the largest contributor to meeting peak demand in the next four months.

The Associated Press reports that New York ranked seventh in the country on a scale measuring solar power capacity in 2014, up two spots from 2013.

By the third quarter of 2012, the United States had deployed more than 2.1 gigawatts of utility - scale solar generation capacity.

California accounts for roughly half of all U.S. installed utility - scale PV solar with more than 2,700 MW of capacity, followed by Arizona with 960 MW (17 percent) and North Carolina with 340 MW (6 percent), according to EIA.

The dynamics of solar processes can be captured on shorter time scales, and the improved light - gathering capacity of the new telescopes allows us to extract more information from spectral lines with higher fidelity and accuracy, especially with respect to magnetic field measurements.

That argument bolsters Prime Minister Modi's commitment to double coal production by 2020, for example, even as India also (at a much, much smaller scale) expands solar capacity and nuclear power.

Through December 2015, CSP made up 8 % of total U.S. solar electric generating capacity, while utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) made up 53 %, and distributed solar PV made up 38 %.

A far better near - term choice is wind power, but both wind and solar begin to have another problem at scales at or above that which Clinton is discussing: Since solar panels and wind turbines can't currently work at full capacity 24 hours a day, they require huge advances in energy storage and grid capacity, as well.

Beyond the Ontario solar silicon capacity of 2300 MT, Calisolar believes they are near a solar silicon inflection point and are planning a large scale 16000 MT solar silicon facility located in the United States.

For both utility - scale solar PV and solar thermal, California has more capacity than the rest of the country combined, with 52 % and 73 % of the nation's total, respectively.

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.

Utility - scale solar makes up more than two - thirds of California's solar capacity, with utility - scale solar PV making up 55 % and solar thermal systems such as concentrating solar making up another 13 %.

Starting this month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is including monthly estimates of small - scale distributed solar PV capacity and generation by state and sector in EIA's Electric Power Monthly.

In 2014, California became the first state to generate at least 5 % of its electricity from utility - scale solar plants (i.e., generators with at least one MW of capacity).

All but 18 states have some utility - scale solar PV capacity, but only three states (California, Arizona, and Nevada) have utility - scale solar thermal resources, as these systems often require large, contiguous tracts of land in arid environments.

Small - scale solar PV installations, defined by EIA as having capacity of less than 1 megawatt (MW), are usually located at the customer's site of electricity consumption.

As shown below, estimated monthly generation rates for small - scale solar PV installations, measured as kilowatthours of generation per kilowatt (kWh / kW) of capacity, are almost identical to generation rates reported to EIA by TPOs.

Overall, utility - scale solar systems make up about 1.1 % of the total U.S. electric generating capacity, while distributed generation PV systems provide another 0.8 %.

In Synapse's 100 % renewables «utility - scale case,» LADWP would add the same amount of wind and solar as in the reference case, but would also add almost 2 GW of storage capacity.

California added more than 1,000 MW each of utility - scale and distributed solar PV capacity, accounting for 42 % of overall solar additions in 2015.

Using new information, EIA combines data on utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity with customer - sited PV capacity, as reported in the graphic.

Utility - scale solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission grid.

Solar thermal capacity additions also continue to be outpaced by solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity additions, even though solar PV has only meaningfully entered the utility - scale market in the past few ySolar thermal capacity additions also continue to be outpaced by solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity additions, even though solar PV has only meaningfully entered the utility - scale market in the past few ysolar photovoltaic (PV) capacity additions, even though solar PV has only meaningfully entered the utility - scale market in the past few ysolar PV has only meaningfully entered the utility - scale market in the past few years.

For states in either of these cases, industrial and commercial solar PV installations between 1 and 2 MW are removed from the total utility - scale capacity reported on the Form EIA - 860.

RenewEconomy While the large - scale solar market continues to wow, a new report has forecast a near doubling of the world's installed wind power capacity in the next five years, citing new policy pushes in China and India — and a «roaring back» to form from Australia.

Uzbekistan's government has announced that the country's state - owned power utility, JSC Uzbekenergo has signed an agreement with Canadian solar developer, SkyPower Global for the construction of several large - scale PV plants with a combined capacity of 1 GW, across the regions of Tashkent, Samarkand, Navoi, Jizzakh, Surkhandarya and Kashkadarya.

In fact, of the 6 GW of new solar capacity added in the US during 2014, 63 % of it came from utility - scale plants.

The significance of these announcements are that these are some of the first announcements of power plant - scale solar projects in China, where there has been at the end of 2007 an installed capacity of only 0.08 GW of solar compared to nearly 6 GW of wind.

Scaling - up our solar capacity will jolt our energy management program towards our goal of zero net electricity costs by 2020.»

Of all the large - scale electricity capacity installed this year, nearly two - thirds will come from solar and wind power alone, the agency said.

Last year, Deutsche Bank and SkyPower signed a major $ 110 million solar energy financing deal that supported the completion of three utility - scale solar projects in Ontario, Canada, with a nameplate capacity of 30 MW.

With the annual average capacity factor for California utility - scale solar of 26 percent (per EIA and California Energy Commission), the state would then require 51,000 MW of solar installed.

The report includes all biomass and waste - to - energy, geothermal, and wind generation projects of more than 1MW; all hydropower projects of between 1MW and 50MW; all wave and tidal energy projects; all biofuel projects with a capacity of one million liters or more per year; and all solar projects, with those less than 1MW estimated separately and referred to as small - scale projects, or small distributed capacity.