Sentences with phrase «solar capacity which»

The development plans include 200MW of Solar PV, a 100MW / 100MWh battery, 100MW of demand response, a 120MW / 600MWh pumped hydro storage facility and 480MW of solar capacity which will be installed later to support the expansion of industrial capacity.

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.

Not exact matches

Renewable Properties has a rapidly growing pipeline of utility solar projects located throughout the U.S. and plans to bring approximately 75 MW DC of solar capacity online in 2018, which is enough electricity to power nearly 12,657 homes a year.

After five years of a modest solar market, last Friday Indiana saw the signing of a solar contract for a single project which represents more than twice the capacity that the state has put online in any given year.

Our staff has also found months where the total installed utility - scale solar capacity estimated by FERC has been smaller than individual projects which we have observed coming online in a given month.

He said after the first successful fair, the commission launched the National Rooftop programme, a capital subsidy scheme under which free solar panels up to a maximum capacity of 500 watts peak were provided to qualified beneficiaries in the residential sector.

China, which generates more solar energy than any other country, is losing up to 11 gigawatts of power capacity due to air pollution, the researchers report in the Aug. 8 Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

If and when wind and solar capacity double their outputs from current levels, base - load plants, which have to run constantly to ensure grid stability, will start to suffer financially as well and risk becoming uneconomical.

Thanks to China's Golden Sun program, which subsidizes pilot projects for solar power generation, the nation's installed solar power capacity grew more than 300 % from 2010 to 2011 to reach about 3 GW.

Silicon wafer — based solar cells, which account for 90 percent of installed solar capacity, are more efficient, converting up to 20 percent of the sun's energy, whereas thin - film cells generally convert only about 10 percent.

Duke Energy has also played a major role in catapulting solar energy in North Carolina, which ranked third among states during the third quarter of 2014 in installed capacity, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (Ssolar energy in North Carolina, which ranked third among states during the third quarter of 2014 in installed capacity, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SSolar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

These images are complementary to space - based telescopes, like NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which takes images primarily in ultraviolet light and does not have the capacity for the high - speed imagery that can be captured aboard the WB - 57F.

Achieving the interstellar journey in many ways must build upon, promote and establish fundamental research, technology development, societal systems and capacities that facilitate ready access to our inner solar system and which will leave an indelible mark upon life on earth.

GTM Research predicts that the five - year extension to the solar ITC will result in 25 GW of additional solar capacity installed over the next five years, a 54 % increase over a scenario in which the ITC was not extended.

In our current gadget - centric culture, one limiting factor for mobile devices is the capacity of the batteries that power them, and while we haven't seen any massive improvements in battery technology (yet) which would allow us to go for days between charges, mobile solar chargers and battery backup systems seem to be the only solutions (well, other than to actually stop using them so much).

They use the solar power and the excess capacity of the diesel plant to charge this battery bank, which cuts their diesel consumption in less than half, to 10 - 12 gallons per day.

The only argument which I think is valid is that there will be a limitation to the production capacity of solar panels.

So there's a benefit in the United States to installers of solar panels from the fact that China has a lot of capacity, which cuts against this concern that some in the U.S. have that China's cheap solar panels are bad.

Charging the battery pack (which holds enough electricity to recharge a cell phone or iPod) to full capacity takes 5 hours of sunlight, so unless you plan on being outside quite a bit of the day, it might be smart to detach the solar panels and battery pack and set them out in the sun for a stretch.

Consequently with the dramatic decrease in efficiency of fuel burn in the standby fossil fuel generators there is sweet FA practical reduction in CO2 emissions with the introduction of wind and solar power generation systems particularly when the energy costs of the producing and building the so called renewable energy systems are added to the grossly inefficient running of the ready to go to full generation capacity in minutes, fossil fuel powered standby generators which in many cases must be kept running at low or zero power generation to be able to come on line in minutes when the so called renewable energy systems fail to produce power,

A far better near - term choice is wind power, but both wind and solar begin to have another problem at scales at or above that which Clinton is discussing: Since solar panels and wind turbines can't currently work at full capacity 24 hours a day, they require huge advances in energy storage and grid capacity, as well.

Rapid deployment of solar photovoltaics (PV), led by China and India, helps solar become the largest source of low - carbon capacity by 2040, by which time the share of all renewables in total power generation reaches 40 %.

The Canadian power company is planning its first solar project, which will be up to 180 MW in capacity, on the former strip mine.

The United States has slightly more than 20,000 megawatts (MW) of solar generating capacity, which includes utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal installations, as well as distributed generation solar PV systems, also known as rooftop solar.

Algeria, which knows it will not be exporting oil forever, is planning to build 6,000 megawatts of solar thermal generating capacity for export to Europe via undersea cable.

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.

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.

EIA estimates that the total U.S. installed capacity of distributed solar PV (defined as less than 1 MW) in September 2015 is 7,691 MW; AZ's share of total U.S. distributed solar PV is thus ~ 8 % (609 MW / 7, 691 MW), which is still modest relative to AZ's solar resource.

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.

NEW DELHI: Canadian solar power firm SkyPower Global, which has won projects to develop 350 MW capacity in the country, is scouting for local partners and has hired investment banker Greenstone Energy Advisors to help its search.

«The 100 - gigawatt solar - energy target — almost half of India's total energy - generating capacity in 2013 — is a tremendous opportunity to expand energy access through clean energy,» says Anjali Jaiswal, director of the India initiative at NRDC (which publishes Earthwire).

The total installed capacity of the current project activity is 56.25 MW; which involves operation of two solar power plants in the states of Tamil Nadu and Telangana in India

If Germany were now exclusively wind and solar there were two 4 week periods within the last 12 months in which it would have needed about 8x the current capacity in order to avoid storage beyond diurnal and one or two day bridging.

Its clean energy portfolio, which accounts for over 18 % of the total equity capacity at end - 2011, includes hydro - electric, solar, wind and biomass plants.

In January 2015, MASEN announced the result of the tender process to develop the second phase of the Ouarzazate solar power complex, which includes two CSP plants with an aggregate capacity of 350 MW.

For this reason, even if solar generation becomes profitable without subsidies at low levels of penetration, there is a system - dependent threshold of installed PV capacity beyond which adding further solar generators would no longer be profitable.

Admitting that the U.S. is the «laggard» in solar, Eckhart said he believes the country will catch up to the current market leader, Germany, which had 2000 MW of new solar capacity installed in 2009.

Some surplus is required in any grid to meet peak demand and to have reserve capacity, but the extent of the excess capacity reveals the extent to which the government and private interests overbuilt, and can not be blamed on the popularity of solar PV alone

In 2013, 2,145 MW of utility - scale solar capacity entered service in California, of which more than 500 MW came from large - scale solar thermal plants.

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.

As in most of previous recent rounds, solar had the largest share accounting for around 57.3 % of all assigned capacity, followed by onshore wind, which had a 34.1 % share thanks to a total of 1,137.8 MW of allocated power.

However, the existing SREC program will cease once the state reaches 1,600 MW of installed solar capacity, after which point the legislature will decide if and how the program will continue.

This funding system granted a premium on top of the electricity pool price of 12 $ cents for each kWh output of a solar thermal plant between 100 kW and 50 MW of capacity, which could be changed every four years.

California, for example, increased its utility - scale solar capacity by 3,500 MW in just two years — nearly the growth needed in New England over the next 14 years.2 Texas increased its onshore wind capacity by 7,300 MW in five years, which is more than both New England and New York would need to add by 2030.3 For offshore wind, Europe has exceeded the growth rate needed in the Northeast, increasing capacity roughly 16-fold in just 10 years.4

Kellar has permits to build 15 solar arrays across the state, which will add up to 4.8 megawatts to the state's capacity.

Adding wind and solar photovoltaic capacity to the grid may require augmenting the amount of peak - load plants, which can be done relatively cheaply by adding gas turbines, which can be fueled by sustainably - produced biofuels or natural gas.

State solar investment at affordable housing is expected to accelerate drastically thanks to the passage of Assembly Bill 693 (Eggman, 2015), which commits to a goal of installing at least 300 MW of new solar capacity on affordable housing, and allocates up to $ 1 billion over the next decade to do so.

Israel is planning a tender for building its largest ever solar power facility, which will have a capacity of up to 500 megawatts, in the southern Negev desert.

As of the third quarter of 2014, more than 17,500 megawatts of cumulative solar electric capacity are operating in the United States, which is enough to power more than 3.5 million average American homes, according to the Solar Energy Industries Associasolar electric capacity are operating in the United States, which is enough to power more than 3.5 million average American homes, according to the Solar Energy Industries AssociaSolar Energy Industries Association.

Complexity of solar purchase power agreements and the cost competitiveness of solar energy in various regions of the world are impacting the pace at which we can add solar capacity.