Sentences with phrase «sell solar electricity»

(Just this month we learned that First Solar Inc. has contracted to sell solar electricity to Nevada Power for 3.87 cents per kilowatt - hour, a new low price record for solar.)

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For example, thousands of families not only have solar panels on the roofs of their houses but also have the right to sell electricity back to PG&E.

Las Vegas - based Gleason Partners proposed covering some sections of the wall with solar panels and said that selling electricity from it could eventually cover the cost of construction.

While Sunrun sells itself to customers as a hassle - free way to save on their electricity bills rather than just a do - gooder environmental option, Jurich's interest in solar stems from a deep concern about air quality that crystallized while she was working in smoggy China.

The move is expected to hit utility - scale solar projects like this one, which sell their electricity to power companies, particularly hard.

Solar cell owners receive monthly payments from the sold electricity, paid out in bitcoin.

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

Under the new rules, ESCOs won't be able to sell new supply to residential and small - business customers unless they are cheaper than the utility or if at least 30 percent of the electricity they sell comes from renewable energy sources like wind, hydro or solar.

Kohl's Department Stores Menomonee Falls, WI Retail 601 million green kWh, 50 % of total power used This chain is already the biggest solar electricity host in the U.S. To soak up rays on 60 (and counting) store and corporate rooftops, the retailer has partnered with Sun - Edison, which owns and maintains the solar panels and sells the electricity to Kohl's.

«It will be the first car sold in the U.S. powered by electricity, gas and solar,» company execs repeated like a mantra in press materials and statements.

A little - known program in Ontario lets homeowners install solar panels and sell electricity back to the province.

Ko Phayam does not have a central power source, but in recent years some businesses have installed large enough generators or solar panels to sell excess electricity.

But the price of oil never rose as was predicted, so the solar plant never became competitive with fossil fuel - based energy production (Carrizo sold its electricity to the local utility for between three and four cents a kilowatt - hour, while a minimum price of eight to ten cents a kilowatt - hour would be necessary in order for Carrizo to make a profit).»

In Germany, anyone can sell solar generated electricity to the grid at 20 % over their cost of electricity.

At the same time, utilities are feeling the squeeze from distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, which further threatens to erode their ability to sell more kilowatt - hours of electricity to their customers and build more power plants.

California has promoted solar power through a series of state policies, including a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) that requires electricity providers to obtain 33 % of the power they sell from eligible renewable sources by 2020.

The divide between utility - scale solar and behind - the - meter (BTM) solar will become more apparent as the zero - sum game for selling electricity intensifies.

These include pipeline operators who don't have the same self - dealing opportunity; non-utility electricity generators who can't sell their product to utilities because the utilities now prefer to build their own gas generation; and companies that build wind and solar projects, who find themselves boxed out.

Google is already well known for putting its significant power behind clean energy technologies, including their work in solar power, wind energy investments and their data centers being powered by hydro - electricity, which lead to the creation of Google Energy, a company that has federal support to sell and buy electricity.

Most subscription - based community solar programs promise either immediate or eventual savings on your electricity bill, while some others may sell a subscription as a way to support clean electricity and not necessarily as a money - saver.

The boom in home solar energy generation — there has been a 60 percent increase in domestic solar installations in the past year — is a threat to ALEC's dirty energy producing members, so they have a bill to amend so - called net metering laws that allow homeowners to sell excess electricity back to the grid.

Once you recoup your initial investment through these savings, you will continue to receive free electricity in the form of solar credits until you sell your share or the project is decommissioned — which can be 25 or more years.

Electricity generated at Ananthapuramu Solar Park will be sold under a 25 - year PPA to the Solar Energy Corporation of India, at levelized tariff rate of INR 4.79 ($ 0.075) / kWh.

Currently, distributed excess solar capacity can only be sold to one's existing electricity supplier.

We sell a lot of our solar electricity back to PG&E at $ 0.29 a kilowatt - hour during the summer (less in winter and at latitude 37 N there's a lot less sun as well so winter's a dead loss).

Central Union manages this by leasing their roof space to a solar company, who then sells back to them the electricity at a reduced rate.

Solar thermal electricity generators who sell their production to a distributor receive as fixed tariff 300 % of the reference price (7.2 $ cents / kWh) during the first 25 years and 240 % afterwards.

So, every time a solar panel system generates 1 MWh of electricity, its owner is entitled to sell one SREC.

But after 13 years of the AEPS, Pennsylvania generates less than 4 percent of its electricity from renewables like wind and solar, even though 14.2 percent of the retail electricity sold in the Commonwealth is generated by AEPS - sanctioned «alternative» sources.

In most states the systems provide your power needs throughout the day and if your system produces more electricity than your home is using, it sends the excess back to the electric grid, selling your extra solar power back to the utility where it can be used by your neighbors and others.

By installing a large PV solar nameplate capacity, using the need to pay off this (subsidized) investment as the rationale for approved rate increases, and then selling us (mostly) the cheaper electricity they make from coal and uranium, they actually increase the profitability of coal and uranium more than PV solar.

Solar thermal electricity generators who sell their electricity on the free market receive the negotiated market price of electricity, a premium of 250 % of the reference price during the first 25 years, 200 % afterwards, and an incentive of 10 %.

These states have indicated their dissatisfaction with the current electricity - generation system by enacting binding RPSs, which require that wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, waste, or other renewable resources be used to generate up to 30 % of the electricity sold by 2025.

Electricity generated by the Nevada Solar One power plant will be sold to Nevada Power Company and Sierra Pacific Power Company under long - term power purchase agreements (PPAs).

Furthermore, in the case of solar, consumers (in Arizona at least, and I believe in other states as well), are paid retail rates when the «sell» their electricity back to the utility as opposed being paid wholesale rates — that is another form of subsidy that further distorts the market.

If the state wants to brag about meeting its new goal of 8 % of its electricity from solar, it had better hold the RECs to prove it — and not, for example, allow Dominion to sell the RECs to a Pennsylvania utility or to the voluntary participants of its Green Power Program.

The Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) announced last week that citizens of one of the world's most fuel - deprived nations can sell energy generated with solar panels for 120 fils per kilowatt / hour (kw / h) and wind power -LSB-...]

The solar electricity and the renewable energy credits (RECs) would be sold to the local utility, which would then credit the subscribers on their utility bills.

The Hong Kong government will start discussing plans from early next week to give owners of residential and commercial rooftop solar PV systems the chance to sell surplus electricity to the grid.

Under «net - metering» billing regimes, solar power producers can sell their excess electricity (i.e., that which exceeds their demand) back to the utility, for which they [the rooftop solar owners] usually are credited the full - retail rate of electricity.

Now an investigation by two Environment & Energy (E&E) reporters has traced a network of industry fronts and astroturf grassroots organizations spreading across the southeastern United States, all united in attacking state laws or regulatory or other efforts to make rooftop solar panels economical to use by allowing customers to sell any surplus electricity back to the grid.

Instead of owning the systems, customers pay a monthly fee to SolarCity, which owns the solar panels and can sell the electricity they generate.

Basically, solar or wind power plant owners sell all of the electricity they produce to the grid for a set, financially lucrative price.

With ample storage Diablo Canyon could churn out and store electricity during solar surges and sell it when the PV panels have gone to sleep — and do it more profitably than wind and solar can.

The company installs the rooftop solar system, and then sells the clean electricity for prices below what the homeowner typically pays the utility.

In addition, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan's leading mobile carrier, is said to be considering developing a scheme to install solar panels and wind power generation systems on their base - station steel towers, which currently number about 90,000 nationwide, and to sell the excess electricity generated on these towers.

The escalating battle centers over two ways traditional utilities have found to counter the rapidly growing solar market: demanding a share of the power generated by renewables and opposing net metering, which allows solar panel users to sell the extra electricity they generate back to the grid — and without which solar might no longer be affordable.

But Vote Solar's Constantine called the paper's buy - all, sell - all options «not acceptable» for residential customers because it eliminates the opportunity to offset the retail price for electricity with self generation.

And electricity retailers are also accused of picking up more profits from exports of excess electricity back to the grid from rooftop solar systems — for which they pay 6c / kWh (and in some cases nothing at all) and then sell it to the houses in the same street for up to five times as much.

There are many policies that support the expansion of the solar industry, including financial investments for solar projects, setting renewable portfolio standards (how much electricity must come from renewable resources), and creating successful clean energy cash - back programs such as net metering (allowing solar customers to sell excess energy back to the grid).