Not exact matches
Seen over at Designboom and created by the People's Industrial Design Office — the design arm
of Beijing firm People's Architecture Office — during a three - day design hackathon in Seoul, South Korea, the Bike
Share Farm is a
solar - powered and bike - propelled mobile hydroponic garden, inspired by the bike
sharing concept.
Consider that the
share of electricity the world gets from clean sources
of energy over the last 10 years declined by the equivalent
of 21 Bruce nuclear power plants, which powers Toronto, which produces about the same amount
of electricity as 900 Topaz
solar farms.
Around the world, «community
solar» — where a community comes together to purchase or develop a
solar farm whose electricity is then
shared — is taking off, and at the same time the price
of personal rooftop
solar continues to drop (65 percent in the last five years alone).
For example, every unit (kilowatt - hour or kWh)
of electricity generated by the community
solar farm will effectively reduce the participant's power bill on a one - for - one basis; if the participant's
share of the plant produces 5kWh
of electricity on a given day, they will receive 5kWh
of solar Net Metering credits on their power bill.
Community
Solar allows you to subscribe to a share of a larger solar farm located in your
Solar allows you to subscribe to a
share of a larger
solar farm located in your
solar farm located in your area.
To gain experience administering
shared solar, Duke proposes to start relatively small, with 2 megawatts
of solar on
farms up to 75 miles from potential subscribers — maximizing both cheap land and the ability to recruit customers in urban areas.
With nearly 40 %
of those investments — $ 199 billion — going to
solar, wind
farms, biomass, waste - to - energy plants and small hydro - power clean energy projects, it is evident that energy system «diversity» is vital for satisfying current community needs and to address
shared concerns for the future.
In 2016 the firm completed a 5MW ground - mount
solar farm at the site
of its Parc Cynog wind project in Wales with the two generators
sharing a single grid connection.
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solar power.