Sentences with phrase «solar power their system generated»

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A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to do what amounts to new - energy arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

Second, the Powerwall 2 storage system, which starts production this quarter at the Gigafactory, will take the energy that is generated by any source (whether from the solar roof, another solar power system, or even the grid) and use it when it's most beneficial, such as during the night, during a power outage, or when the customer can make money by doing so.

Of the more than 300,000 solar power systems the company has installed, the majority are under leases and PPAs and are contracted to generate more than $ 8 billion in customer payments over the next 20 years, and up to $ 4.8 billion more with customer renewals after year 20.

The solar - embedded panoramic roofs are expected to be transparent, and will generate enough energy to power a vehicle's air conditioning system, heated seats, onboard electronic devices, and other accessories.

If I do so, I'm pretty sure I'll also get the Tesla Powerwall battery system to store excess solar power - generated electricity for use at night or whenever conditions are suboptimal.

Recently, we installed a new solar system that generates enough electricity to power our entire bottling operation and case goods warehouse.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

He envisions a system that uses electric power generated during the day by solar cells to separate water using his new electrode.

We owe the wonderful images of the outer solar system taken by the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft to the power generated by Cold War surplus nuclear isotopes.

A draft report on an Energy Department workshop on solar power's future last year said that preliminary analysis suggests that if solar power could hit a $ 1 per watt target for installed systems by 2020, one - third of the current cost, total U.S. solar generating capacity could rise to 5 percent of the nation's total.

The third facility studied was the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Bernardino County, Calif., where birds can be burned as they pass through concentrated sunrays that are reflected off thousands of mirrors toward a solar power tower, where water is boiled to produce electricity - generating sSolar Electric Generating System in Bernardino County, Calif., where birds can be burned as they pass through concentrated sunrays that are reflected off thousands of mirrors toward a solar power tower, where water is boiled to produce electricity - generating ssolar power tower, where water is boiled to produce electricity - generating steam.

A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.

The Claremont Unified School District is one of many California school systems that have jumped on this bandwagon, leading an initiative to install solar panels at 11 campuses and generate 75 percent of the schools» power needs.

Exposure to electronically generated harmonic energy from wind and solar power systems.

That way, the software that controls the solar and battery system will allow customers to use their home - generated power — and not expensive grid power — when grid prices spike.

The revenue generated here is used to fund various educational and conservation programs at the park, which is operated using ecologically responsible technologies, including solar and wind power, rainwater collection and systems for wetland waste management.

Renewable energy currently tends to have higher up - front costs than fossil fuel - based power systems do, but in the long run equipment depreciation is lower and the fuel (sunlight and wind) is free, thus any honest cost analysis over the lifetime of the power - generating equipment will conclude that solar is cheapest, wind second, nuclear third, and fossil fuels are unworkable in the long run due to the global warming issue.

Other, traditional, pole - mounted systems are similar, but not really geared to shade the area underneath them.The Solar Trees will each generate 17,000 hours of solar electricity each year, enough to power four hSolar Trees will each generate 17,000 hours of solar electricity each year, enough to power four hsolar electricity each year, enough to power four homes.

Look, just go to Google, do a search on home solar power systems, and tell me you can find one for that price that generates close to what the average house uses.

If power generator owners and governments had decreed that the most inefficient and most unreliable, most costly power generation systems that could be conceived to generate power for our modern civilisation were to be the norm then the so called renewable energy systems of wind and solar along with highly inefficient fossil fuel burning idling generators as standby's when the renewables fail to produce power then it is doubtful that a more hopelessly inefficient and unreliable system could be devised for a civilisation that depends so utterly on having dead steady, totally reliable, at call power every second of every day to run that civilisation's entire very sophisticated structures

EVs will recharge when renewable energy sources are generating power and wholesale prices are low, thus helping the system adapt to intermittent solar and wind.

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.

Meanwhile the Hawaii projects are the latest deployment of solar and energy storage in combination at US academic facilities, with other recent developments reported by this website including SimpliPhi Power delivering 1.4 MWh of solar - powered air conditioning to schools also in Hawaii while the likes of Jigar Shah's Generate Capital and Green Charge (now known as ENGIE Storage) delivering solar - plus - storage systems for schools in California last year.

They try to use sustainably sourced materials as much as they can and use a PV solar system to generate power for their building facilities.

Solar panel systems are made of durable tempered glass and require little to no maintenance for the 25 to 35 years that they will generate power.

There are different models for how community solar systems are owned such as by traditional utilities and non-profit entities but under most models you «subscribe» and receive a portion of the power generated along with others while paying a monthly subscriber fee.

After the solar site evaluation, you should have a much clearer idea about the potential for solar power at your home or business, and find out what your options are in terms of both generating capacity and the cost of the solar system, and can move forward with determining how to best finance your solar array.

The various components of your solar power system will need to be replaced at different times, but your system should continue to generate electricity for 25 to 35 years.

You can use the electricity generated by your solar PV system to power your home, your business or even your car.

If a new building or house is being constructed with a solar power generating system, electricians may be responsible for installing the solar power system along with the electrical wiring system, or they may be responsible for simply connecting the solar equipment.

«With the potential for 30 percent or more realized savings than from a solar lease by year five, coupled with the simple proposition that the consumer will own the system free and clear after 10 or 20 years and generate «free» power, we expect the transition to loans to continue,» Jobin wrote back in June 2016.

«As long as the roof has been well maintained, we put solar on a rack on the roof, we plug it into the system and it generates electricity and it off sets the grid power.»

Before getting solar panels for home use, it's a good idea to consider how much energy your home really requires, especially if you want your solar system to generate most of your power.

Solar thermal power (electricity) generation systems collect and concentrate sunlight to produce the high temperature heat needed to generate electricity.

Sure lets use solar to generate electrical power from the sun, but first use the free energy from under your feet by using geothermal heat pump system saving half the number of solar panels you would us.

Electric power can be supplied by solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays and by solar thermal systems in which the Sun heats a fluid that generates steam to drive a steam turbine.

That policy is net metering, where owners of a rooftop solar system are paid retail electric rates for any unused power that they generate.

An Active Solar system uses panels, wires, inverters & batteries to generate, harness and store energy which can be used to power a heating / cooling source.

It is expected that West Village will consume 50 percent less energy than would be acceptable under the 2008 efficiency guidelines (California Building Standards Code, Title 24) and generate its remaining power needs through the use of a 4 MW solar photovoltaic system from SunPower.

Beyond our internal carbon footprint reductions, our solar rooftop systems and power plants operate without generating greenhouse gas emissions, and therefore our customers» use of SunPower systems avoids many times the amount of greenhouse gases generated in their own manufacturing and delivery operations.

Net metering is an arrangement that allows energy generated by a customer's leased or purchased solar system to offset monthly power bills.

This gives you as an owner of a residential solar system the full retail value of every kWh (kilowatt hour) of power your solar system generates.

The insulation in the walls of your house doesn't impede electric power from entering and heat being generated * inside * the house anymore than greenhouse gases can stop shortwave solar energy from entering the climate system and heat being generated * below * the greenhouse blanket.

Energy storage will advance the State's efforts to have 50 percent of its electricity come from renewable sources by 2030, as it can save power generated from solar, wind and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems for laterpower generated from solar, wind and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems for laterPower (CHP) systems for later use.

«Solar power is very portable — it's small and easy to carry, while the wind system was very big — you have to stand up a big post and it's hard to set up,» he said, adding that many Mongolian herders feel that windmills actually generate more dust around the ger.

A typical 3 megawatt wind turbine will generate about 9200 megawatt - hours each year, as much as 2000 roof - top solar power systems!

According to details that have so far been revealed, the solar energy will be stored in Tesla's Powerwall 2.0 energy storage system, which can store 14 kWh of electricity and generate 7 kWh peak power.

The average roof - top solar power system in Australia in 2011 was about 2.7 kilowatts (figures from the Australian Renewable Energy Regulator) and an installation of this size will generate about 4.3 megawatt - hours of electricity each year.

Hydrogen can also be generated by electrolysis of water by using extra electricity generated by wind and / or solar collection to be stored for burning in power plants when those collection systems have lulls especially for solar at night, of course.