For starters, there would be no more wind turbines or
solar arrays because fossil fuels are needed to construct, transport, and install them.
Solar energy generators can expect to receive less revenue from existing
solar arrays because their panels will either be most effective when the sun is shining the brightest, or less effective when rates are more favorable.
Not exact matches
Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an
array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil
because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and
solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.
That's
because the
arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual
Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered ho
Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build
solar - powered ho
solar - powered houses.
For almost three years, the European Space Agency (ESA) craft has been deeply asleep
because it was travelling so far from the sun that it couldn't generate enough power through its
solar arrays to be kept awake.
The problem with a young company is that
because it takes so long for a patentable technology to be recognized, usually «you're already down the road before you have that protection, if you even get that protection at all,» says Tim Keating, vice president of marketing at Skyline
Solar, a maker of high - gain solar ar
Solar, a maker of high - gain
solar ar
solar arrays.
However, an innovative
solar energy system from Austria, billed as «the world's first all - in - one
solar system,» aims to make home
solar much more efficient and practical,
because not only does it claim to produce 40 % more output (than conventional fixed position PV
arrays), but it's also decidedly more portable than a rooftop
solar system and can be unbolted from its anchor and moved to a new home or location.
In 2015, former First
Solar CEO Jim Hughes said, «The large
arrays that are built today are essentially a scaled - up rooftop system —
because it's what the code authorities in ancient years [understood].
One of the first things that the person doing the
solar site evaluation will look at is the size and orientation of the building's roof,
because those two elements will set the design constraints for a roof - mounted
solar array.
If your
solar array produced enough electricity, your bill could theoretically reach zero
because excess
solar electricity exported to the grid during the day could cover your power usage at night when
solar is not producing.
Certainly anything cleaner or cheaper is welcomed but only IF it IS cheaper, NOT
because the greenies or wind generator and
solar array manufacturers say so.
Because the LKDFN owns the
solar array, they were able to negotiate a power purchase agreement with Northwest Territories Power Corporation.
Belfast recently installed a backup
solar array,
because it needs power to pump water from its shared well.
Ihave been given to understand thatsolar
arrays,
because of dust contamination (aggravated, of course, in desert type installations) have to be washed periodically.Perhaps Gunnar could give us some estimate of the amount of water needed to wash hundreds of thousands of acres of desert
solar panels.and, as well, where that water would come from, how it would be transported and what the environmental effect would be.
Sounds like a win / win for both buyers and the local grid,
because not only can the
solar array be used to charge the LEAF directly during the day, which helps to reduce peak demand, but
because the new LEAF includes a vehicle - to - home (V2H) feature, sometimes referred to as a vehicle - to - grid (V2G) system, it could potentially act as an electricity buffer by acting as a giant «personal» battery.
Note that there are NO charges for kilowatt hours
because our
solar arrays generated more than we used, even late in the Vermont winter.
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The roof of the tool shed was an ideal choice of locations for Dan's
solar panel
array because it is low enough to access easily for general system maintenance and seasonal panel pitch adjustments.
Vermont's highest court rules that property owners could not claim that commercial
solar panel
array constituted a nuisance
because the
solar array did not interfere with the owners» use of their property, even though the owners claimed that the aesthetics of the
solar panels had damaged their property values.
Vaidyanathan said standard
solar arrays cost more than a SolarPod
because they are individually designed and installed by contractors.