Sentences with phrase «solar capacity make»

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

Not exact matches

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

The researchers also constructed a full 12 - volt system made of three mobile phone batteries of 3100 millliamp - hour capacity each, with a 5 - watt LED lamp and a small solar panel, for less than $ 25.

The utility will make up that capacity with three new natural gas units that recently came online, as well as through energy efficiency, new solar investments and slower economic growth.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

Airplanes dropped the canisters that burned their cities, the mines that starved their children, and the nukes that instantly made vast irradiated graveyards out of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — for the first time in history visiting solar - temperature hell upon human habitations, and hinting at mankind's full capacity for suicidal madness.

The industry had significant excess capacity headed into 2013, particularly in China, and the Street was concerned that the magnitude of excess capacity would lead to further declines in margins and make selling solar panels and unprofitable endeavor.

3) That's especially the case in that if you look at the trajectory of Chinese emissions: as solar manufacturing increases to its present output capacity (well in excess, apparently of 50 GW p.a.), emissions increases slow, to the point that carbonactiontracker actually makes the bold statement that:

If some rural village requires a few watts per day capacity to make life more tolerable, a few solar panels will do the trick.

Solar Cell Expansion Plans Despite claiming to be sold out of all solar silicon and cells made with Vaughan silicon at a good price, Calisolar is holding off on doubling Sunnyvale solar cell production capacity to 155 MW preferring to wait for a customer investSolar Cell Expansion Plans Despite claiming to be sold out of all solar silicon and cells made with Vaughan silicon at a good price, Calisolar is holding off on doubling Sunnyvale solar cell production capacity to 155 MW preferring to wait for a customer investsolar silicon and cells made with Vaughan silicon at a good price, Calisolar is holding off on doubling Sunnyvale solar cell production capacity to 155 MW preferring to wait for a customer investsolar cell production capacity to 155 MW preferring to wait for a customer investment.

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 %.

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 %.

The increased solar development made China the worldwide leader in solar power capacity, jumping ahead of Germany for the top spot.

Among the firms working in this space is Tongwei, which in November announced a $ 1.8 bn investment to make its solar cell manufacturing capacity the largest in the world.

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 %.

After the significant upwards revisions made to global solar PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in the first half of 2017, which we reviewed in a previous blog, the third quarter was characterised by much more tempered plans.

Faced with the on - going nuclear crisis in Japan — the costs of which could make the March earthquake and subsequent tsnuami the most expensive natural disaster the world has ever seen — nearby China may be moving to double its target for solar photovoltaic (PV) power capacity over the next five years.

The past year saw our one - millionth solar installation, as cities across the country made huge gains in solar capacity.

In December alone, Germany installed nearly as much solar capacity as the United States has in total, fueled by the subsidies that solar companies admit sometimes made it possible not to worry whether there was sufficient demand in a given area for the power they would produce.

This post is framed around «limitations,» but as I said above, if wind and solar both reach global grid penetrations equal to their capacity factors, that would make VRE cumulatively around half of all global electricity.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power and more recently turbine blades, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatt capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

The trend of wind, natural gas, and solar additions making up most new capacity is likely to continue in 2016.

Wind, natural gas, and solar made up almost all new electric generation capacity in 2015, accounting for 41 %, 30 %, and 26 % of total additions, respectively, according to preliminary data.

California's low - income solar and EV programs are also making a tangible impact on air quality, reducing tailpipe emissions directly in the community, while contributing to the state's growing clean energy capacity.

An international team of researchers report in Nature Communications that they made a computer model of the planet's atmospheric conditions: they included natural and human - triggered aerosols, volatile organic compounds, greenhouse gases and other factors that influence temperature, one of which is albedo: the scientist's word for the capacity of terrain to absorb or reflect solar radiation.

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.

China now holds more than half of the world's solar energy capacity, following a 58 % investment increase it made last year.

The Solar Energy Generating Systems in the Mojave Desert with a total generating capacity of 354 MW, making the system the largest solar plant of any kind in the wSolar Energy Generating Systems in the Mojave Desert with a total generating capacity of 354 MW, making the system the largest solar plant of any kind in the wsolar plant of any kind in the world.

MNRE said: «Superimposition of wind and solar resource maps shows that there are large areas where both wind and solar have high to moderate potential,» adding that a twin - track approach could smooth output to the grid and make maximum use of existing network capacity.

Just over 50 % of all new U.S. capacity in 2013 came from natural gas (no surprise), while solar accounted for 22 %, coal added 11 %, and wind accounted for 8 %; other renewables made up the balance.

By 2040, wind and solar will make up almost half of the world's installed generation capacity, up from just 12 percent now, and account for 34 percent of all the power generated, compared with 5 percent at the moment, BNEF concluded.

Natural gas will reap $ 804 billion, bringing 16 percent more generation capacity and making the fuel central to balancing a grid that's increasingly dependent on power flowing from intermittent sources, like wind and solar.

Just to educate the Times on comparative cost calculations, I will point out that «rated capacities» (which are the ONLY specs provided by the solar companies or their newsy accomplices) are irrelevant in making comparisons of build costs.

Richter said Lovins» projected costs for solar, co-gen and wind were too low; they didn't have enough installed capacity to make up for intermittency of the energy sources.

From 2016 to 2032 as Ontario phases out nuclear capacity to make room for wind and solar, CO2 emissions will double (2013 LTEP data).

In 2015, renewables made up more than half of all new installed capacity, with the greatest gains seen in onshore wind and solar.

Through their vision for the NOOR Solar Complex in Ouarzazate, it will be the biggest CSP complex in the world with more 550 MW capacity in operation in 2018, making them a role model in energy transformation on the continent.

And while these are relatively low shares, solar and wind made up more than 60 % of new generation put online last year by capacity.

In the last year alone we have seen total installed capacity of community solar nearly double, and significant progress made to open new markets, including Maryland, New York, Hawaii and others in the coming year.»

Solar made up over a half of the added power plant capacity during the first quarter of 2016.

This made solar the largest source of new generation that came online in the United States, at 39 % of new capacity.

California already has to curtail solar power surges on some days, and PG&E s projections showed that rising solar capacity would make surges bigger and more frequent.

The combination of policies has made North Carolina second in the nation in installed solar capacity, behind only California.

This, coupled with the capacity to forecast wind speeds and solar intensity throughout the country at least a day in advance, makes it possible to manage the diversity of renewable energy resources efficiently.

For the second year in a row, solar and wind together represented roughly 2/3 of new capacity, with natural gas - fired generation making up most of the rest.

Technologies including wind and solar energy made up about 45 percent of total power capacity added in 2009 and about a quarter of additions in 2010, Energy Information Administration figures show.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

«The fact that we had 147GW of capacity, mainly of wind and solar is a clear indication that these technologies are cost competitive (with fossil fuels),» said Christine Lins, who is executive secretary of REN21, an international body made up of energy experts, government representatives and NGOs, who produced the report.

Perhaps the most revealing point in the article is made by a graph that shows the proportion of China's installed power capacity from wind, hydro and solar having grown from 20 % in 2007 to 35 % in 2016, that is an average rate of about 1.5 % per year.

About three - quarters of this solar capacity was located in California (including the Topaz and Desert Sunlight (Phase 1 and 2) photovoltaic (PV) plants and the Genesis solar thermal plant), with Arizona, Nevada, and Massachusetts making up most of the rest.