Sentences with phrase «solar facilities»

A utility - scale solar facility generates solar power, feeds it into the grid and supplies a utility with energy.

In addition to these benefits of solar development, construction and operation of solar facilities creates both direct and indirect employment and additional income in the regions where the development occurs.

Requires cumbersome and unnecessary financial assurance requirements for solar facilities that no other state requires.

This year alone, more than 4.8 million homes were powered by solar facilities — ranging from large - scale power plants to individual PV panels.

The largest percentage of distributed generation, also known as embedded generation, is from solar facilities.

Additionally, socioeconomic impacts (both positive and negative) may be associated with solar facilities.

Community solar refers to local solar facilities shared by individual community members, who receive credits on their electricity bills for their portion of the power produced.

Since entering the renewable energy industry in 2000, his companies have developed over $ 4 billion of wind and solar facilities now operating around the country.

Wind and solar facilities produce energy depending on how strong the wind blows and how bright the sun shines.

Operation of solar facilities, and especially concentrating solar power facilities, involves high temperatures that may pose an environmental or safety risk.

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is the largest of 11 operational utility - scale solar facilities in three states in which NRG has ownership interest.

Once these programs are operational, DEC and DEP customers in counties with or adjacent to these utility - owned community solar facilities will be able to purchase 200 watt subscriptions.

When journalists recently asked him in the Central Region if the load shedding was likely to end per his deadline, Dr Donkor, who was touring the 20MW solar facility at the Onyadze Power Generating Plant in the Gomoa East District said: «Well let's wait and see.»

The mayor of Rochester, New York, has cut the ribbon on a new solar facility situated on a former landfill site that has been vacant since 1972.

The new First Solar facility will be located in Lake Township, Ohio, about a mile from the company's flagship manufacturing center in Perrysburg (which was also constructed by Libbe).

Conergy and BMD Constructions will soon commence construction on the Daly River project, a one megawatt solar facility situated near the remote indigenous community of Nauiyu.

The energy generated from wind, wave and solar facilities on the Nullarbor Plain and Southern Ocean could be bundled together and transmitted to Olympic Dam over high voltage direct current power lines.

While SolarVision LLC, an Ohio - based solar developer, has earned a name for itself by developing small solar facilities, it recently took on a much larger development in Celina, Ohio.

, chairman of the House Natural Resources oversight and investigations subcommittee, charged in a hearing on 14th June that the Ivanpah solar facility in California's Mojave Desert has received special treatment from the government.

Grupo T - Solar, a solar power producer in Spain and a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, has signed an agreement to acquire two operating concentrated solar facilities in Spain with a combined installed...

For example, several municipal utilities offer their customers a share in a single large solar facility along with the ability to gain net metering credits based on the size of the share and how much electricity the facility generates.

Since residential solar facilities that are net - metered are already limited to 20 kW, this would effectively repeal standby charges for residential net metering.

Utilities in states like North Carolina, Texas and Alabama also are building large - scale solar facilities because it makes financial sense.

In the past few months, CAISO — which manages 80 percent of California's electric flow — has been busy seeking advice from German solar facilities.

Blessed by an abundance of sunshine, the state can boast a number of impressive solar facilities, such as the 290 MW Agua Caliente Solar Project.

The Great Valley Solar project, currently under construction in Fresno County, Calif., is located on approximately 1,600 acres adjacent to the 200 MWac / 258 MWp Tranquillity Solar Facility.

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report on the land use requirements of solar power plants based on actual land - use practices from existing solar facilities.

Current solar facilities reflect the sun's rays off of curved mirrors to heat water or mineral oil, but experimental systems use materials such as molten salt, which could run far hotter and be stored in insulated tanks for hours or days.

Much of the problem appears to lie in the «lake effect,» in which birds and their insect prey can mistake a reflective solar facility for a water body, or spot water ponds at the site, then hone in on it.

The Montalva Solar Facility would be located between the municipalities of Guanica, Lajas and Barrio de Montalva, in the southwest of the island.

Beyond its state programs, New Jersey utility - scale and distributed solar facilities are also eligible for federal tax incentives and benefits front - loaded to the start of each project's life.

The Amonix solar facility in Las Vegas, according to former employees, has been out of operation since May of this year.

«The City and its residents are excited not only to see land previously used as a landfill turned into an amazing solar facility, but also for the economic and environmental benefits the Spa Solar Park will generate for Saratoga Springs,» said Finance Commissioner, Michele Madigan, project leader for the City of Saratoga Springs.

In addition, PacifiCorp has installed more than 10 times the generation capacity of these dams in renewable wind and solar facilities over the past decade.

The DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has supported the evaluation of environmental benefits and concerns for solar facilities through funding of specific studies.

The power will come from two West Texas solar facilities.

Once built, solar and wind systems will be there just this side of forever, since there will be no energy production if we let them decay, after shutting down whatever fossil fuel operations aren't needed to fuel backup generators that keep wind and solar facilities operational.

Sarnia Solar facility, with a capacity of 80 - megawatts (MW), is sitting in Ontario, Canada just north of Michigan.

Alabama Power's John Kelley talks solar facility groundbreaking at Anniston Army Depot from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.

My power company (Florida Power and Light) sent me a letter asking me to choose its Sunshine Energy program, which, for an additional $ 9.75 a month, helps support the building of a 150 - kilowatt solar facility in Florida.

Ultimately, Babcock Ranch will have 6 million square feet of retail, commercial, office, civic, and light industrial space, and subject to approvals, construction of the FPL solar facility is targeted for late 2009, city center targeted for mid-2010, and first residential and commercial buildings targeted for late 2010.

The memorandum of understanding between First Solar and some high - level Chinese officials to construct a 2 GW solar facility in Inner Mongolia may at first make little sense, given the fact there are several very large Chinese firms in China quite capable of creating such a facility.

That is unless Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), applies for a Treasury Grant for the just completed 48 MWac Copper Mountain Solar facility in Boulder City, Nevada USA.

For example, Ontario proposes to pay 13.5 cents per kW - h for electricity generated from onshore wind turbines, 19.5 cents per kW - h for electricity generated from offshore wind turbines, and 80.2 cents per kW - h for electricity from small residential rooftop solar facilities.

Coordinated the construction, start - up and certification of the world's first and largest 30 MW CPV solar facility.

generation and transmission co-op serving Florida's rural Gulf Coast last August completed what is thought to be the largest community solar facility any utility in the Southeast.

Companies that want to help customers install on - site solar facilities by using PPAs have argued that this section clearly permits customers to buy solar electricity from third party suppliers when their utility doesn't offer a renewable energy tariff.