Sentences with phrase «using photovoltaic»

Many are using Photovoltaic systems, which use solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity.

«Many resorts are using photovoltaic panels, and about 35 resorts now are buying green power.»

Solar radiation is collected using photovoltaic arrays and the wind energy is collected using wind turbines.

«The objectives in this work are to look at the concept of using photovoltaic modules to convert that spillage of otherwise wasted energy to electricity.»

Solar power stations using photovoltaic panels without concentration of sun - light require little water; those that concentrate sun - light and solar - thermal power stations require substantial volumes of water for cooling.

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. began building a three - story, 40,000 - square - foot facility that will be devoted to researching and developing transportation fuels from sunlight using photovoltaic and electrochemical solar energy systems, according to a company news release.

They're using photovoltaic (PV) energy to partially power trains, subways, buses, cars, planes and even roadways.

«This is the first large - scale project to generate energy using photovoltaic panels, not only for Wal - Mart Mexico, but for Wal - Mart International.

Instead of using photovoltaic cells, it will use the sun's heat to generate electricity.

They believe it's possible to create portable devices such as ebook readers that don't require any kind of external power supply or replaceable batteries by using photovoltaic components that can produce voltage when exposed to radiant energy.

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The school also generates its own on - site electricity using photovoltaic solar panels on the uppermost roof.

The park district will demonstrate environmental sustainability by using photovoltaic panels, a partial «green» roof and a cistern to capture and reuse rainwater.

At all of our sanctuaries with nature centers, we generate electricity by using photovoltaic arrays, which harness energy from the sun.

The plane, which has a wingspan of 1.5 metres and weighs just 300 grams, uses photovoltaic cells to convert the energy from the infrared beam into electricity to power a propeller.

It is easier to use photovoltaic panels to turn sunlight into electricity, which can then run standard compression air conditioners.

SunPartner's Wysips (for «what you see is photovoltaic surface») film is 90 percent transparent, half a millimeter thick and uses a photovoltaic layer bonded to a network of microlenses.

Vast acres of solar farms using photovoltaics made from semiconductors to convert sunlight to electricity now span southern Spain: Celebrated ground - mounted photovoltaic (PV) plants include La Magascona and Jumilla with their array of 120,000 modules on 120 single - axis «follow - the - sun» trackers.

The first method uses photovoltaic (PV) solar panels to generate electricity directly from sunlight.

The space programs of the United States and the Soviet Union first used photovoltaic cells as a source of energy to generate electricity for satellites and spacecraft.

The one bedroom and one bathroom home uses photovoltaic and thermal systems, rain - water recycling and water - efficient fixtures and is surrounded by a green scenery.

Solar panels use photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight directly into electricity through a chemical reaction.

We're hoping to make using photovoltaics to power mobile devices as commonplace as using them to power calculators.

It could be a major incentive for people to use photovoltaics.

Not exact matches

The team's design uses solar energy (captured with photovoltaic panels) to power an electrochemical reactor that converts water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen.

In photovoltaic solar cells, for example, the European Copper Institute (ECI) states that copper is used in cabling, earthing, inverters and transformers, among other things.

One type, known as plastic, organic or polymer photovoltaic solar cells, uses conductive organic polymers or organic molecules to absorb light, transfer the charge and produce electricity.

The Garland facility uses 723,000 Canadian Solar high performance CS6X - P photovoltaic (PV) solar modules mounted on single - axis tracking tables.

«It may actually do well in overseas markets where solar - photovoltaic is cheap, and homeowners are used to paying a premium for building materials and cars — such as Australia,» Bromley said in an email, according to a Bloomberg report.

Panasonic makes the photovoltaic cells used in the solar tiles.

One of the biggest growth areas for silver demand has been photovoltaic use.

Meanwhile, silver's use in solar photovoltaic (PV) cells hit a new record high last year, further boosting demand.

Wholesum Harvest was an early mover on solar power and obtains roughly a third of the electricity it uses from its own photovoltaic cells.

The outside of the building will demonstrate environmental sustainability with the use of photovoltaic panels and a partial «green» roof.

The electronics giant would produce photovoltaic (PV) cells in the Buffalo factory for use in solar power home installations.

The term solar panel can be applied to either solar hot water panels (usually used for providing domestic hot water) or solar photovoltaic panels (providing electricity).

These human - made materials were introduced in the 1990s, and researchers around the world are working on ways to use them as molecular sponges for applications such as hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, or photovoltaics.

«The overall sun - to - electricity efficiency of the hydricity process, averaged over a 24 - hour cycle, is shown to approach 35 percent, which is nearly the efficiency attained by using the best photovoltaic cells along with batteries,» Gençer said.

The device uses solar electricity from a photovoltaic panel to power the chemistry that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, then adds pre-starved microbes to feed on the hydrogen and convert CO2 in the air into alcohol fuels.

He was optimistic that nanotechnology — controlling matter on the molecular scale — would soon give physicists unprecedented control over the semiconductor materials used in photovoltaic cells.

Where building - mounted solar photovoltaics are cost - effective, no additional land — and therefore wildlife habitat — is used at all.

He is also working with UC Santa Cruz physicist Sue Carter on the use of perovskite thin films in photovoltaic cells for solar energy applications.

«Our hope is that this could be used not only for perovskite nanocrystals but also for bulk materials and thin films used in applications such as photovoltaics.»

Using heat from an external solar array, Licht, who's based at George Washington University, can raise the temperature so high that only a minute electrical current, supplied by solar photovoltaic cells, is needed to split the compounds.

The state hosts vast photovoltaic arrays in the desert as well as the nation's first commercial power plant with the technology to use sunshine at night — by storing daytime heat in molten salts.

In recent years, perovskite - based solar cells have raced to the front of emerging photovoltaics, already competing on efficiency against well - established solar technologies such as the inorganic thin - film and multi-crystalline silicon used in solar panels around the world.

Its scientists recently earned an award for the development of a Wavelength Scanning Interferometer, which has uses that include the detection of defects in the coating that can have a serious impact on the longevity of roll - to - roll vapour barrier coatings for flexible PV (photovoltaic) cells.

«The new results are based on the use of focused sunlight, and are particularly relevant to photovoltaic power towers being developed in Australia,» Professor Green said.

The trouble, from an electric utility's perspective, is the tens of thousands of Arizona's total of three million or so homes that have installed small solar: photovoltaic panels made from wafers of semiconducting material, typically silicon, that use incoming sunlight to create an electric current.

The SPS - Alpha solar satellite, shown in this illustration, uses a cone of mirrors to redirect sunlight onto photovoltaic panels.