Sentences with phrase «solar electricity they consume»

Participants in this solar farm model pay an administrator or utility company for the solar electricity they consume, often at a lower rate than what they would normally pay.

Not exact matches

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

«It is more cost effective to consume the self - generated solar electricity than to feed it into the public electricity grid,» says Noeren.

We are really approaching the point where it will be entirely «mainstream» for US suburbanites to live in solar - powered homes that will not only be «net zero energy» in the sense of generating as much or more energy than the house itself consumes, but will also generate all the electricity to operate an EV, which will be integrated with the house so its batteries can provide power to the house at night and during grid outages.

Building enough new solar and wind capacity to meet California's 33 percent renewables by 2020 mandate will not be easy — but reliably getting the electricity generated by those resources to the places where it will be consumed may be even tougher.

Most utility companies across the country have net metering programs to credit solar system owners for feeding solar electricity to the power grid, when the system is generating more than the home consumes at the time.

ARESEP established no tariff for electricity that is directly consumed as it is produced, which had been an issue of concern for Costa Rica solar advocates and businesses.

With 6,000 square metres of solar panels, energy saving lighting, natural ventilation systems and other green features, the office is designed to generate as much electricity as its 1,200 occupants consume.

Solar owners would still pay the retail rate for consumed electricity but would earn the value of the RET — yet to be determined — for their exported power.

We announced earlier this year that roughly 44 % of the electricity consumed by Microsoft's datacenters comes from wind, solar and hydropower, and we committed to raising this to 50 % by 2018 and to 60 % by early in the next decade.

It has also made it illegal for people to consume electricity they generate from their own solar panels.

If your solar array produced 1 kWh of electricity more than you consumed, the utility would credit you with 1 kWh worth of electricity on your bill.

How many backups were on standby (meaning consuming fuel despite not contributing electricity to the grid) at 12:00 CET on April 25th when wind and solar provided 48.8 GW to the grid?

If they weren't ready on stand - by (and that means consuming fuel), then there would be no electricity when wind and solar cut out.

Fourth, massive transmission system upgrades need to occur to transport electricity from the wind and solar farms where it is produced to the urban areas where it is consumed.

If you do that, you effectively replaced what you would have consumed from conventional power plants with electricity produced by solar panels (or wind farms).

The distinction of highest proportion of solar PV electricity to electricity consumed goes to Italy, which produces nearly 8 % of its electricity photovoltaically.

For example, let's say your solar panels generated 10 kWh of excess electricity for the grid during a sunny day and then you consumed 10 kWh of electricity at night.

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How much actual electricity can be derived from solar PV, or energy from solar thermal, vs. the amount of electricity and / or heat actually consumed by the residents of said buildings?

From electricity consumers, who can obtain electricity from our future solar farms, but also from potential customers, who want to both consume and generate electricity from solar power,» he said.

2 Small - scale solar photovoltaic systems are electricity generators with less than one megawatt of electricity generating capacity that are usually at or near the location where the electricity is consumed.

But in many places, you're not supposed to have solar panels supporting more electricity than you consume, so if you increase your electricity use when you get an EV (not guaranteed to happen, but likely), then you can put more solar panels on your roof and you are essentially driving on sunshine.

I don't have PV on my house yet... first has been a reduction to 60 kWh / mo of electricity, now is installing a 1.6 GPM shower head, and next will be a solar thermal collector to heat the house and water (I still consume at least 10 therms of gas each month in the cooler months).

California's Military Bases Could Generate 30x More Electricity From Solar Power Than They Consume

Already, solar panels installed on its buildings, and the wind farms it owns across six European nations, account for 27 % of all the electricity it consumes.

The fund will partner with existing investment funds and our National Laboratories to ensure that promising technologies move beyond the lab and are commercialized in the U.S Require 25 Percent of Renewable Electricity by 2025: Obama will establish a 25 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require that 25 percent of electricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermElectricity by 2025: Obama will establish a 25 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require that 25 percent of electricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermelectricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal by 2025.