Sentences with phrase «solar electricity system»

The survey asked, «How likely would you be to buy a solar electricity system for your home, knowing that a mid-size system that would provide around 63 % of the average household's electricity, costs $ 35,000 to $ 40,000 that could be offset by a $ 2,000 federal tax incentive along with additional rebates in many states.»

Pricing and Financing a Solar Electricity System.

As tax time rapidly approaches in the United States, many solar consumers are wondering: Can I receive any tax credits for the solar electricity system I installed or am planning to install sometime in the near future?

Solar water (and air) heaters fall under this category, as they are generally a lot more affordable than a home solar electricity system, and can produce plenty of heat for years - for free - with minimal maintenance or repairs.

The school boasts a solar electricity system in addition to ample natural light, water - saving features, and indoor air - quality measures.

Through Catalyst, communities of innovators use software, data, algorithms, and automation to drive down non-hardware solar soft costs — like permitting, financing, and customer acquisition — that today make up more than half of the cost of a solar electricity system.

Not exact matches

Solar photovoltaic systems, which generate electricity directly from sunlight, are best because they are easy to maintain, can be located almost anywhere and don't need to be refueled.

«Our solar plants are going to lose over half of their ability to generate electricity during the two to two and a half hours that the eclipse will be impacting our area,» says Steven Greenlee, spokesperson for the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO, one of the largest independent grid operators in the world.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

Starting this year, owners of rooftop solar systems in Nevada must pay higher fees, and are paid lower rates for their electricity.

Traction: In December, Orora installed its solar Home Lighting Systems in an Irula community in Southern India, which has only six hours of electricity access each day.

If I do so, I'm pretty sure I'll also get the Tesla Powerwall battery system to store excess solar power - generated electricity for use at night or whenever conditions are suboptimal.

They appeared to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk said they'd actually been retrofitted with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promised, that lasts longer and costs less, all while generating electricity.

The system will store solar energy created during the day and feed it to the grid during the evening hours to help reduce the amount of diesel power generation needed to meet the island's electricity demand.

This is the first time a utility has contracted for a system that stores and releases solar energy after sunset, and will help KIUC meet its goal of using renewable resources to generate half of Kaua`i's electricity by the end of 2019.

They appear to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk says they've actually been retrofitted with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promises, that lasts longer and costs less, all while generating electricity.

Now, an offgrid 3.15 MWh Powerpack system (15 Powerpacks) tied to on - site solar panels from SolarAfrica and will ensure that electricity for the lodges is generated locally, efficiently, and sustainably from renewable energy.

Companies invest in these resources as the cost to build solar electricity generating systems continues to decline.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

«As the Alberta Electricity System Operator has noted, coal - fired power with carbon capture and storage is a far more expensive option to reduce carbon pollution compared to using natural gas, wind, solar and hydro power.

Musk replied to a post on Twitter questioning whether he could rebuild Puerto Rico's electricity system using independent solar and battery systems.

Florida homeowners found out about this the hard way after Hurricane Irma, where the utility told residents with rooftop solar systems that they couldn't draw power from their panels while workers were restoring power due to the risks of sending errant electricity on the grid.

Recently, we installed a new solar system that generates enough electricity to power our entire bottling operation and case goods warehouse.

He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.

Homeowners looking to save electricity costs should replace all their incandescent light bulbs with LED - based lights instead of installing a small solar photovoltaic system, a report by J.P. Morgan shows.

Both LEDs and solar photovoltaic systems would cut electricity consumption and monthly expenses as well as lower the impact of home lighting on the environment.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

«Using the battery of mobile phones in small solar home systems becomes obvious in order to make access to electricity easier to those who live without.»

Generating electricity from solar - thermal energy, however, usually requires a large - scale system, with an array of mirrors that reflect and concentrate sunlight onto tanks or pipes filled with water or other liquids.

The M.I.T. invention combines the electricity generation of photovoltaic cells with the energy storage of solar - thermal systems

The 1.5 - kilowatt solar - panel system will produce enough electricity for you and your plug - in hybrid car, and the dwelling is built off - site, which reduces construction waste by up to 75 percent (remember that the next time you sneer at the local trailer park).

This demonstration of the key steps in fuel production will ensure that this vital space power technology will be available to provide electricity and heat for ambitious exploration missions of the solar system in this decade and beyond.

They also suggested that combining solar photovoltaics and wind turbines at the same location can actually yield up to twice the amount of electricity as having either system working alone in the same land area.

Higher efficiency means more electricity produced for a given size of solar cell, which increases power output and lowers overall system costs.

Among them are smart solar storage systems, smartly interconnected energy grids, and electricity - based synthetic fuels (e-fuels).

Solar cells, 62,120 of them, distributed over the surface of the wing, soak up the sun's rays, providing up to 32 kilowatts of direct - current electricity to power electric motors, computers, and other systems on the aircraft.

Grid parity is when the cost and reliability of that solar panel system is about the same as that of buying electricity like most people do today — from the local utility's power grid.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

Lithium - ion technologies make up a large part of the proceedings because energy storage is a crucial enabling technology for clean energy systems, such as powering electric vehicles and smoothing out electricity from wind and solar generators.

«This suggests that solar photovoltaic systems could be deployed with enough storage to supply electricity at night, and the industry could still operate at a net energy surplus.»

For smaller applications, such as regulating the flow of electricity from a house's solar panels, vanadium - based systems look more cost - effective.

By moving the TPV cells when their power isn't needed, the system could be rapidly switched on and off to supplement electricity from wind or direct solar PV sources, Henry said.

That means Fan's radiative cooling panels could theoretically be substituted on rooftops where existing solar panels feed electricity to air conditioning systems needed to cool the building.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

This system uses huge solar panels to generate electricity, which will energize stored xenon gas and expel it at high velocity to generate thrust.

A new model developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) shows how an electricity system mainly based on solar and wind works in all regions of the world.

One of these, the world's largest solar - thermal cooling system so far, has since 2014 been chilling a high school in Arizona, where air conditioning typically makes up a significant fraction of an annual electricity bill.

A new study co-authored by Steven Davis, associate professor of Earth system science, shows that the U.S. can meet 80 percent of its electricity demand with renewable solar and wind resources.

And, unlike Galileo, which used a nuclear power source, Juno's electricity comes from the sun — a first for a spacecraft operating in the outer solar system.

Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop size.