Sentences with phrase «solar farms»

It's the largest solar farm in the world, spreading over 10 square miles of the high desert landscape.

Now, the company has turned their attention to the several abandoned golf courses in the country, with plans to build large solar farms on the land.

This is 2 1/2 times the area of solar farm required to power the world in 2030.

Solar farms on dams also have plenty of water to clean them with on hand.

Apart from feed - in tariffs, only the tender - system is seen as viable and will be tested for solar farms in the next three years.

Want to join a community solar farm in your area?

At the conference, there were also at least two sessions on renewable energy including a round - table discussion on battery storage and a talk on developing utility - scale solar farms.

A former golf course will be the site of the new solar farm that could provide energy to more than 4,000 homes.

Environmental recovery has proven especially challenging for these projects, opening the door for alternative industrial uses such as solar farms.

One day, power generated by solar farms and wind turbines could be used to drive this transformation.

As gigantic solar farms become ever more commonplace, some have raised the question of how big is too big for centralized solar.

This is an issue we can fix in partnership with solar farm operators.

Renewable energy development could have a similar effect on the land, with large solar farm construction often scraping much of the land of vegetation as well.

The new rates to be applied to storage for the first time are likely to impact subsidy - free solar farms currently being developed.

The island also has a newly installed solar farm, its own lush organic garden, and tree restoration programs dotted throughout.

We saw many small solar farms like this from trains as we travelled around.

The community solar farm produces clean energy and sends it back to your local grid.

Such a device would be a boon for nuclear power stations, concentrating solar farms, geothermal installations, combined heat and power systems, and fossil fuel - fired power plants.

This is where solar companies create sprawling ground - based solar farms in remote areas, and then sell the energy to local utilities.

Large - scale wind and solar farms accounted for the majority of this new capacity.

This innovative project turns standard parking lots into inventive and productive solar farms.

Although venture capitalists and other investors have poured millions into solar projects, building factories and solar farms requires millions in capital, which has become scarce.

Here are the facts: investing in local solar farms instead of more costly power plants saves utility customers money.

Many states anticipate more community solar farm installations — especially if those states have supportive policies and initiatives.

In many instances, the electricity from community solar farms costs less than what residents and small businesses would otherwise pay the electric company.

Its wind turbines and solar farms hook right into the grid.

Wind and solar farms provide emissions - free energy, but only generate electricity when the wind blows or the sun shines.

Solar farms typically take up less than 5 % of the land they are on so there is a huge opportunity to develop protected habitats to support local wildlife and plant life.

From gigantic solar farms through bee - friendly green roofs to simply painting our roofs white, we can be smarter about what goes on above our heads.

And in the meantime, we'd probably best build some gigantic solar farms too.

Both reduced food waste and plant - rich diets, on their own, beat solar farms and rooftop solar combined.

A closer look at the first - ever grid - responsive solar farm, and how it could help meet federal calls for grid stability.

Wind and solar farms keep their paws off the climate, but you can't help but see them.

Well, the same is true for large - scale solar farms.

It has made a series of deals to purchase the output of solar farms that are under construction and will be up and running in 2015 and 2016.

The new solar farm will prevent the release of 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere annually — the equivalent of taking 8,000 cars off the road.

He estimated they'll increase costs for large solar farms by less than 10 %.

There are two main ownership models for community solar farms.

From tropical forests to investing in wind power, and from solar farms to plant - rich diets, many of the top ranking solutions were hardly a surprise.

These golf courses feature large amounts of unused open land, few shade trees and high sun exposure — all of the things you need for a productive solar farm.

U.K. - based water company, Northumbrian Water has entered into a partnership with Lightsource BP for the development of 10 new solar farms at its sites, which are expected to generate 10 GWh of clean electricity each year to help power its operations.

Juwi Solar, a Boulder, Colo. - based subsidiary of the German firm Juwi AG, is developing a 50 - megawatt solar farm on 350 acres of private ranchlands outside Holden.

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