Sentences with phrase «solar capacity»

To date, there have been more than 36 MW of solar capacity funded through solar for affordable housing rebate programs, generating significant savings for both property owners and their residents.

Beyond low levels of penetration, an increasing solar contribution results in lower average revenues per kW of installed solar capacity.

It's why, over the past year, developers have proposed more than 1,600 MW of additional solar capacity in counties across the state.

Record amounts of new solar capacity have been installed over the past two years.

One of the challenges we face is that our 2020 renewable energy goal was based on doubling solar capacity by 2015.

The report also looked at the sustainability of the economic benefits by projecting total solar capacity potential.

In addition to the solar requirement, the new building standards will offer a credit for solar capacity combined with on - site energy storage.

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

These data do not include solar capacity additions below 1 MW in size that are typically used in distributed power applications at residential and commercial sites.

An estimate of total PV capacity must therefore account for many small installations (often referred to as distributed solar capacity).

The neighborhood where he lives already has solar capacity at 100 percent of the minimum daily load.

Increased solar capacity, stronger policies, and growing investor interest are a move in the right direction.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

In the map below, you can see the clear overlap of third party ownership rules with solar capacity.

For the first time in 2017, global solar capacity grew faster than all fossil fuels combined, including coal, oil and gas - fired power stations.

This point of use solar capacity reduces demand for grid electricity and so reduces the wholesale price as lower demand results in lower prices.

Customer - owned solar capacity jumped 50 percent higher.

Governments fund solar capacity in countries that receive little sun and install wind turbines in nations that get little wind.

Meeting demand during such periods without huge load shedding would require building huge wind / solar capacity which would almost never be used in order to slightly reduce the chances of grid collapse.

The new projects will add 64 megawatts to the states solar capacity.

This trend was also accompanied by slower global growth in petroleum use and faster growth in renewables, with wind and solar capacities achieving record increases in 2014.

[A] s a result of basic supply - and - demand dynamics, solar capacity systematically reduces electricity prices during the very hours when solar generators produce the most electricity.

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

If implemented, this plan would be the first real attempt by the country to deploy solar capacity.

These 15 companies were involved in half of all commercial solar capacity installed in 2017, regardless of their participation along the value chain.

In nearly every scenario, increases in solar capacity make up for the lost coal.

Each time solar capacity doubles, the team estimates greenhouse gas emissions per solar panel decline between 17 and 24 percent.

Beyond about 5 % of installed wind and solar capacity backup generators and / or storage is required — with considerable impact on system costs.

The state ranks third in the country for geothermal production, 11th in oil and natural gas production and is No. 6 in the country for installed solar capacity.

And then there's the global picture, and records broken in terms of new solar capacity and new investment.

Less than 600 megawatts of solar capacity were installed in 2003.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

The bill promised to double the state's solar capacity over four years.

The answer is yes, especially for distributed solar capacity.

In 2016, U.S. solar capacity rose by about 15,000 megawatts, more than in any previous year.

«As wind and solar capacity climbs, the returns of usable power diminish because of increasing curtailment during surges that the grid can not absorb.

The rapid growth came as lawmakers wrestled with how to deal with the solar incentive policy, which required revision when rooftop solar capacity reached 3 % of peak load.

Until 2015, there were less than 100 MW of installed community solar capacity, but by the end of 2018 there is likely to be more than 1 GW online, Smithwood told Utility Dive.

According to preliminary numbers from industry research group GTM, in 2015 global solar capacity reached 256 gigawatts — and is now projected to near the 800 GW mark by 2020.

2017 saw more money spent on solar capacity than oil, coal, gas and nuclear combined, and in the United States, its projected that the solar industry will return to job growth after a 2017 tightening.

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.

The 12,000 megawatts are part of a 20,000 - megawatt solar capacity goal Brown set for the coming decade.

These issues — both grid instability and the need for expensive inverter retrofits — occurred in Germany, where solar capacity expanded very rapidly over the span of ten years.

According to SEIA, while the Sunshine State ranks third nationwide in rooftop solar power potential, it ranks «all the way down at 12th for cumulative solar capacity installed.»

Meanwhile, China is already the world's leader in wind - generated power and aims to triple solar capacity by 2020.

Globally, solar capacity soared to almost 400 GW last year from under 10 GW in 2007, according to the International Renewable Energy Administration.

Germans have been installing 30 times the U.S. total of solar capacity per year, creating 40,000 new jobs in the process — even though Germany lies well north of much of the U.S.