Sentences with phrase «solar plant»

With this is mind, the 2014 changes to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) brought in auctions to determine the price guaranteed for solar plant operators.

Next to the solar plant, which was recently put online by Birdseye Renewable Energy and United Renewable Energy, towers the concrete ruins of a nuclear power plant which began construction in 1978.

Solar One will pay rent to the DHHL for the space that the solar plant will be built on.

The timing of the completion of the solar plant at the Phipps Bend site comes as renewable energy is showing the first signs of surpassing nuclear power in the United States.

Apple said Tuesday it would spend nearly $ 850 million to purchase power from a massive solar plant just south of Silicon Valley.

BayWa r.e. and Statkraft have signed a 15 - year power purchase agreement for a subsidy - free, 170MW solar plant in southern Spain.

As you're likely aware, many of the biggest solar farms planned for the US keep hitting snags — many are facing environmental disputes, such as the solar plant planned in the Mojave Desert.

A 350 MWe coal fired plant will have a far higher MWh energy output «capacity» than a 350 MWe solar plant could — 58 % vs 15 %.

The price for the «always clean, never been dirty» 275MW concentrating solar plant is still about $ 1.8 billion - or about $ 919 million cheaper.

It's now 2011 and a 3MW solar plant is going up near my house in Pennsylvania at a cost of 18 million dollars.

What is important is the non-subsidized payback period of the entire solar plant and not just the solar cells.

If you would also include the carbon footprint of extracting the gas, building and operating the gas power station and transmitting the energy, you also have to do the same for the solar plant.

Clinton also mentioned how investing $ 1 billion in a solar plant grows 2,000 jobs, while investing the same amount in a coal plant typically only creates 170.

If your visit to the World Cup passes through Kaiserslautern, Dortmund or Nuremberg, you will enjoy power from one of the world's three largest solar power installations at football stadiums (or take a day trip to the world's largest solar plant, period — also in Germany).

And even if BP is building a solar plant, or Duke is building a wind farm, it's still in the public's best interest if they are built safely and without degrading the environment.

In addition, the car could be used as a power source for a home or other application, with the solar cells and battery functioning as a micro solar plant.

Compare that to the largest solar plant in the world today, Ivanpah which finally opened late last year, took 5 + years and $ 2.5 billion to build and is only 380 MWe.

The project, which is slated to cost $ 1.4 billion, is gunning for 400MW which, it says, will make it the largest of its kind in the world (the current record holder is an 80MW solar plant in Ontario).

But as the 100MW solar farms going up in France, and the massive expansion of plans for a San Antonio solar plant from 50MW to 400 show, the scale of what's impressive has changed somewhat.

The solar plant is built on a former military airfield, and its module surface area comprises approximately 16.5 acres.

The Bluebell 2 solar plant will be located northwest of San Angelo, and is expected to be completed and online by November.

NextEra will build a 100 MW solar plant in West Texas to meet demand in the city, which has pledged to go 100 % renewable by 2020.

The solar plant will help meet the country's electricity needs and reduce reliance on fossil fuels for power generation.

One example of a massive solar plant is in the Northern Cape Province.

Florida Power & Light Company $ 62,371,777.00 6/2/10 (32) Florida Power & Light (FPL), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE), was awarded two grants totaling almost $ 62.4 M, $ 43.9 M for the DeSoto solar plant in January 2010 and $ 18.4 M for the Space Coast solar plant in June 2010.

Good article at the Las Vegas Sun with new facts, photos, and the ribbon cutting ceremony, «Remote California town blazes trail with solar plant that saves water» http://bit.ly/aSz6yC

Its concentrated solar plant, Crescent Dunes in Nevada, has become the world's first solar power plant that can continuously supply power for 24 hours a day.

Largely because the migration of bighorn sheep would be affected, the city of Los Angeles has refused to buy electricity from the Soda Mountain Solar Project, a solar plant proposed for the Mojave Desert, even though the plant could help the city reach its goal of obtaining 35 % of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

Building or using a second power plant (powered by fossil fuels) paired with every solar plant, to produce energy for the night energy demand, was not an ideal solution.

To supply the proposed solar plant, HVS developers and the city are negotiating a contract to sell at least 1 million gallons of effluent per day to the Hualapai Valley Solar project.

Construction takes place at Roha Dyechem solar plant at Bhadla, north of Jodhpur in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.

The Nevada utility has requested approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada for a 100 MW solar plant, while simultaneously requesting the early retirement of a coal - fired generation facility, but its previous objection to net metering lingers in the memory.

The Spanish company was awarded the project by the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority for a 37.6 MW plant in Arizona, which will be the company's second utility - scale solar plant in the United States.

Thus, transporting the electricity produced by the Ouarzazate solar plant to the European market would be 91 to 149 times more expensive than generating the power.

Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) has issued an order for Enerparc Energy to develop a 5.7 MW solar plant and provide O&M services over a span of 10 years at T3 terminal.

EBRD, alongside Triodos Investment Management and FMO Dutch Development Bank will provide a $ 30.7 million loan to finance the construction and operation of Mongolia's largest utility - scale solar plant — a 30 MW project to be located in the Gobi Desert region, around 450 km south east of Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar.

Crescent Dunes Solar Plant Ready To Charge Up Solar «Salt Battery» Half a Million Solar Panels Now on UK Buildings.

GlassPoint's track record in Oman has led to the company's expansion in new markets, including the recently announced project with oil and gas producer Aera Energy to build the largest solar plant in California, USA.

MUSCAT, Oman --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) and GlassPoint Solar, the global leader in solar energy for the oil and gas industry, have completed construction on the first block of the Miraah solar plant safely on schedule and on budget, and has successfully delivered steam to the Amal West oilfield.

Not everyone thinks the solar plant represents a brighter future.

German project developer juwi has installed their first combined wind and solar plant in Egypt to be used for desalinating and pumping irrigation water for farms and it is monitored and controlled remotely from Germany.

«Largest Solar Thermal Plant in 16 Years Now Online,» Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy News, 13 June 2007; Asjylyn Loder et al., «FPL Unveils Plans for a Solar Plant,» St. Petersburg Times, 27 September 2007.

The Mojave solar plant was paid for by the government subsidizing BrightSource energy and they will recoup their investment with higher rates to the ratepayers.

So in effect, at least part of this solar plant is publicly funded.

The Solar Plant Technician is responsible for performing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of project equipment related to any aspect of a utility solar plant.

Scope of Position: The Solar Plant Technician is responsible for performing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of project equipment related to any aspect of a utility solar plant.

This could be a privately owned «tie line» that connects a wind or solar plant to the energy storage plant.

Freeport - McMoRan Gold and Copper recently announced a proposed a 15 - megawatt solar energy plant at its Bagdad Mine in Prescott, Ariz., making it the largest proposed solar plant in the state.

(See related «Video: The Tortoise and the Solar Plant» and «Mojave Mirrors: World's Largest Solar Plant Ready to Shine» and «Pictures: Seven Emergency Climate Fixes.»)

An artist's rendering of such a solar plant is shown here.