Sentences with phrase «solar farms provide»

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The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

The new solar farm will provide power to Sierra Pacific Power Co.'s electric grid that serves Apple's data center and when completed will generate about hours 43.5 million kilowatt of clean energy a year, Apple said in a statement.

A refugee camp in Jordan is now home to a 15 million - euro ($ 17.59 million) solar farm that will provide clean, free energy to 80,000 Syrian refugees and their host community.

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.

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

The town has already advanced plans to establish a solar farm on the property, which Warren says will provide «community power» at less than current costs.

«Solar and wind farms should be able to provide around - the - clock energy for the electric grid, even when there's no sunlight or wind,» Cui said.

Interestingly, in addition to creating niches for more biodiversity above ground, the new guidelines also suggest that solar farms may also provide an incentive to promote more soil - based carbon sequestration too:

Our land's highest, best use is probably a mixture of solar farms in the driest and poorest areas which concentrate water by runoff onto neighboring land used either to return to nature and grow grass (with cows optional) to sequester carbon by building soil and / or be periodically harvested to provide feed for cellulosic ethanol.

Sustainable Woodstock has installed its first solar powered pump which will provide water at the Billings Farm community garden site on old River Road.

Rocky Mountain Power already had agreed to provide city government with 3 megawatts of its 20 - megawatt solar farm now under construction in Millard County, according to utility spokeswoman Arlene Bentley.

«The 18 utility - scale solar facilities, 7 commercial wind farms and 9 geothermal plants Interior green - lighted onshore would provide 10,400 megawatts when built, enough to power 3.4 million homes.

In the meantime, the Chinese continue to pump out solar modules cheaper than anyone else; their largest wind turbine manufacturer, Sinovel, will likely become one of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers; and — as we're finding now — if you need billions in financing for a wind farm, China may be more than willing to provide that, too.

The main tower, which will rise 1,776 feet, will include solar panels and a wind farm, the turbines of which are expected to deliver around one megawatt of power, enough to provide up to 20 % of the building's expected demand.

U.S. subsidized wind farms and solar installations would not just cut greenhouse gases, they would provide an economic boon to America's beleaguered farmers in GOP strongholds in Wyoming, Texas, Iowa, Indiana, and other states.

The 500kWh capacity system, has been co-located with a 500kWp solar farm in Somerset to demonstrate the potential to provide a balanced grid.

It looks like First Solar will be providing the panels to be used in the large PV farms that have been contracted out to date.

The potential of wind and solar energy is almost limitless, because solar alone can provide 100 folds energy requirement of the US, and wind can supply 40 x the energy required with a turbine on every farm.

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Neoen have said that they will provide a community fund of $ 80,000 a year when and if they build the wind and solar farm.

Through combining the goals of Solar Decathlon Middle East 2018 with newopportunities in desert farming and the natural beauty of the Emirates, the house provides animmersive agricultural tourism experience.

In fact, the same company responsible for these farms has today unveiled a huge 1MW solar tunnel that will protect trains from falling trees (reducing the need for tree felling), and provide power to one of Belgium's most important railway stations in the process.

Solar power on the farm and in the garden can provide the electricity or heat needed to run essential parts of the growing operations, and while they may take an initial investment, the return on that investment could keep coming back for years and years.

While there are a range of renewable sources that can provide on site power directly for industrial activities, in many cases it will be more convenient and possibly more efficient to take power from large renewables projects linked up via the grid - e.g. large offshore wind farms, wave farms, tidal farms, or desert solar projects.

There would have to be incentives provided for installation of solar power in Japan to make these small solar farms economically viable.

But wind and solar can also provide power «off - grid» to individual homes, farms and remote locations, giving these sources a unique flexibility.

Apple (s aapl) has turned on the first halves of both its massive solar panel farm and adjacent fuel cell farm, and is using the systems to provide power for its $ 1 billion, 500,000 square - foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina.