Sentences with phrase «utility scale electricity»

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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).

It's one of the nation's leading producers of corn and ethanol but has yet to begin any utility - scale biomass electricity generation.

Recurrent Energy is a leading utility - scale solar project developer, delivering competitive, clean electricity to large energy buyers.

This contract, BART's first - ever PPA for utility - scale solar power, resulted from a renewable energy procurement process that BART launched in May 2017 as part of the organization's Wholesale Electricity Portfolio Policy («Policy»).

Recurrent Energy, a U.S. subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc., is redefining what it means to be a mainstream clean energy company, with utility - scale solar plants that provide competitive clean electricity.

The move is expected to hit utility - scale solar projects like this one, which sell their electricity to power companies, particularly hard.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

Lazard's latest annual Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 11.0) shows a continued decline in the cost of generating electricity from alternative energy technologies, especially utility - scale solar and wind.

A northeastern Wisconsin utility can scale back a credit program for customers who generate their own electricity through solar panels, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

In collaboration with H2O Applied Technologies, Manhattan College in Riverdale launched a large - scale water and energy conservation project this spring expected to save an estimated $ 652,000 per year in utility costs and reduce electricity use for the institution by nearly 2 -LSB-...]

To this end, and in keeping with Ghana's commitments under the Paris Agreement, the President outlined some solar energy programmes for implementation by 2030, which include the attainment of utility - scale solar electricity from about 22.5 megawatts to 250 megawatts.

Major companies — electricity giant Huaneng Group and state - directed China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)-- have responded to the government's goals, looking to build utility - scale wind farms throughout the country, according to engineer He Dexin, president of CWEA.

«PV will become competitive at utility - scale in the sunniest regions by 2030 and provide 5 % of global electricity,» according to an IEA summary of its report.

A new wrinkle on an old technology — solid - state thermophotovoltaics (TPV)-- could provide a high - efficiency alternative for directly converting high - temperature heat from concentrated solar thermal to utility - scale electricity.

The critical challenge to making renewable energy competitive with fossil fuels at the utility scale is making the electricity dispatchable.

The primary method thus far has been for public or private utilities to construct large scale centralized projects to generate and transmit the electricity required to fuel economies.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

It is Morocco's first utility - scale solar energy plant, with the goal of supplying power to over 1 million Moroccans by 2018 and helping Morocco produce 42 percent of its electricity through renewables by 2020.

Not sure what you mean by «rate» and «commercially available solar» covers a lot of territory from 5 KW residential rooftop installations to gigawatt - class utility - scale power plants (both PV and thermal)-- but the cost of electricity from rooftop PV is approaching parity with the retail cost of grid electricity, and that's the point at which distributed PV will explode like cell phones and personal computers did.

This is odd because solar — including photovoltaics, concentrating solar thermal, and solar space & water heating — is a mature, commercialized technology that is already being installed in quantity today, both as centralized utility - scale electricity generation and as distributed, small - to - mid-scale electricity and heat generation.

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

Breaking that down along different methods of generating solar power, the report found that rooftop PV alone could generate 818 TWh of electricity each year, roughly 20 % of current demand; utility - scale PV in urban areas could generate 2,232 TWh, or 56 % of demand; concentrating solar power has a potential of just over 116,000 TWh.

Solar's share of electricity generation is slightly less (0.4 % and 0.2 %, for utility - scale and distributed), reflecting the intermittent nature of solar resources.

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- $ 168 million in BrightSource Energy's Mojave Desert utility - scale CSP solar power tower facility that will supply 392 megawatts of electricity to California power suppliers SCE and PG&E (following an initial $ 10 million investment in the company itself);

In 2014, California became the first state to generate at least 5 % of its electricity from utility - scale solar plants (i.e., generators with at least one MW of capacity).

As a roadmap by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) found last summer, the pairing of utility - scale renewables with energy storage serve as an economically viable power solution for such areas, who are typically dependent on expensive fossil fuels for their electricity, and instil a degree of energy security.

The divide between utility - scale solar and behind - the - meter (BTM) solar will become more apparent as the zero - sum game for selling electricity intensifies.

The groups said the benchmark levelized cost of electricity for a utility - scale solar photovoltaic project fell to $ 86 / MWh, down 15 % from 2016, and a 72 % drop since 2009.

EIA expects the share of U.S. total utility - scale electricity generation from natural gas - fired power plants to rise from 32 % in 2017 to 34 % in both 2018 and 2019.

Noor III, at 150 MW, the world's second utility - scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) tower with molten salt storage, will deliver power to Morocco's electricity grid by October, if not sooner.

Utility - scale solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission grid.

So utilities operating in the state must source a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources in a sliding scale until they hit 100 % by 2045.

Using the latest available national data on power generation, this most recent look at data on annual and quarterly electricity generation nationwide from the Energy Democracy Initiative at ILSR illustrates how small - scale, distributed solar energy stacks up against its big, fossil fuel and utility - scale renewable energy competitors.

Utility - scale and distributed solar together account for nearly 15 percent of California's net electricity generation.

Enabling wind farm owners and operators to more efficiently and cost - effectively convert wind energy into electricity and supply it to power grids improves the economics of utility - scale wind power.

Solar power is used to generate large amounts of power on a utility scale and to supply individual residences and businesses with electricity.

The Solar PEIS analyzed potential environmental impacts associated with the development, operation, and decommissioning of utility - scale solar energy projects; i.e. solar energy projects that can generate 20 MW or more of electricity that is delivered into the electricity transmission grid.

According to an International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) report, the average levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for utility - scale solar reached as low as $ 0.10 per kilowatt - hour, a price decrease of nearly of 73 percent between 2010 and 2017.

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Photovoltaic panels have traditionally been used for smaller scale electricity generation, particularly for residential or commercial use in individual buildings or complexes, while CSP is used for utility - scale electricity generation in solar power plants.

The lifecycle cost of electricity from new nuclear plants is now $ 148 per megawatt - hour, or 14.8 cents per kilowatt, while it is 5 c / kwh for utility scale solar and 4.5 c / kwh for wind.

-- Fifty percent of the funds raised under this section shall be provided in the form of grants to electric utilities that had, prior to the award of any grant under this section, committed resources to deploy a large scale electricity generation unit with integrated carbon capture and sequestration or conversion applied to a substantial portion of the unit's carbon dioxide emissions.

This is an important chance for wind industry participants to show that low - cost, utility - scale wind energy can provide innovative solutions to help the IESO meet its objectives for providing reliable, flexible, low - cost and non-emitting electricity.

Where distributed solar shaves the cost of peak electricity prices, utility - scale wind power lowers the wholesale cost of power across the board.

«It is also the first time that a utility scale solar project has been contracted at a price that is lower than the retail rate of electricity in Ontario.»

Our utility - scale solar parks have produced over 529,868,658 kilowatt hours of clean electricity to date, and counting.

But the utility shut down the carbon capture equipment in 2011 because it could not sell the carbon dioxide or recover the extra cost from its electricity customers, and the equipment consumed so much energy that, at full scale, the project would have sharply cut electricity production.

All consumers, including general households and small - scale business establishments (low - voltage contract consumers), can now choose freely among power companies (electricity retailers) for their electricity, and do not have to simply buy from the regional power utilities that monopolized the market until now.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), for the first time since July 1984, monthly U.S. electricity generation from utility - scale renewable energy sources exceeded nuclear generation in March and April 2017.