Sentences with phrase «value of solar»

Once you've paid off the system off, the ROI begins to increase — and the full value of solar reveals itself.

Other work includes the evaluation of community solar models, value of solar methodologies, and cooperative renewables programs.

A collaboration of several energy and environmental organizations with experience in distributed solar provided some badly needed context for the contested values of solar.

Bringing forecasts of customer adoption of rooftop solar into utility planning is essential to realizing the full value of solar and ensuring reliable operation of the power system.

Australia has top notch direct normal irradiance (DNI) the solar resource used by CST, but development has been stymied by Australia's renewable policy that does not factor in the extra value of solar energy that can be delivered on demand, day or night.

By Yann Brandt Value of solar tariffs, also known as VOSTs, have hit some level of critical mass; at least with public perception and media.

Recognizing that solar power systems add value to a property, the real estate industry is working to create more sophisticated methods for accurately determining the market value of solar, as well as the financial value of properties equipped with solar power systems.

These comments concerned a proposed residential adder framework outlined as part of the state's community solar program and Minnesota Department of Commerce Value of Solar calculation.

Of course, straight - laced economics aside, we must also consider the inherent value of solar power beyond mere dollar signs.

These models take into account federal tax legislation, and Minnesota's required Value of Solar Tariff (VOST).

To identify the effects of human activity on temperature, we simulate the model (estimation sample 1960 — 1998) with post 1998 values of solar insolation, SOI, and volcanic sulfates held at their 1998 level while allowing greenhouse gas concentrations and sulfur emissions to evolve as observed.

An employment of these datasets will lead to somewhat different values of the solar variability, which is, however, covered by our rough order of magnitude estimate of the overall uncertainty of the reconstruction.

«BEF has long been a convenient, turnkey partner in our Green Lights (green power) program, but it's the added value of the Solar 4R SchoolsTM program and expert Community Solar project support that continue to set them apart.»

It makes clear that the program's first phase compensation will be through retail rate NEM and compensation after that should be through a «value of solar credit» determined in a Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) proceeding.

In Illinois and Minnesota, efforts are underway to come up with a localized value of solar that would take into account local grid capacity.

Recognizing that solar power systems add value to a property, the real estate industry is working to create more sophisticated methods for accurately determining the market value of solar, as well as the financial value of properties equipped with solar power systems.

Controversy continued over net metering, too, although the utilities that want to charge solar homeowners for back - up power aren't so quick to pony up the full value of solar - generated peak - hour kilowatts.

«I'd put the value of solar in the eye of the beholder,» said Brian Lips, who manages the incentives database for the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center.

Interest rates are at historic lows, and a sharp spike in rates could drop the value of solar bonds.

The Value of Solar (VOS) rate (or Value of Solar tariff) is an alternative to net metering designed to capture the value solar installations provide to the electric system.

Commercial and industrial (C&I) community solar customers will not get this market transition credit, but they will receive an additional credit based on the value of solar to the distribution system.

Currently, Austin Energy claims only 50 MW of solar generation, including 20 MW purchased from customers under the utility's «Value of Solar» pricing mechanism.

«Given where the price is and given that we're looking to achieve diversity in our fuel supply, we've seen the value of solar improving for us.»

A glassy economic oasis in the desert Despite the cost, the value of solar power remains a bargain.

Quantifying the Value of a Solar Installation: Some Helpful Metrics is Part 5 of Solar Finance 101, a five - article series that serves as an introductory primer on the financial considerations of solar installations:

He is now executive director of the Pace Energy and Climate Center and a frequent expert witness in value of solar, rate and grid modernization regulatory proceedings.

Former Texas utilities commissioner and Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Karl Rabago was, as an Austin Energy executive in 2012, the first to apply a value of solar study to the design of a rate for BTM solar.

The «discount rate» is an important concept to understand when assessing the value of a solar installation.

Dollars per Watt ($ / W) is a simple and widely - used calculation to evaluate the value of a solar installation.

Having an understanding of the different metrics used to quantify the value of a solar installation will increase your credibility as a solar professional.

Illinois regulators are getting a jump on determining the value of solar and other customer generation.

(Greentech Media) • Two studies find an 88 percent difference in the value of solar in Montana versus Maryland, but some are skeptical of the data.

But DEEP can not make claims about the cost - effectiveness of distributed solar or restructure the NEB tariff «until it does an evidence - based, data - based value of solar or value of distributed energy resources study,» Humphries said.

The solar industry has been suggesting the scheme be changed, particularly in light of the 50 per cent reduction in module costs in the last 18 months, but it argued for a staged reduction to avoid havoc in the industry, and to end with a tariff that reflected the value of the solar put back into the grid (i.e. give it a value greater than coal).

The Solar Electric Power Association also issued a report on the value of solar to the electric grid system — Ratemaking, Solar Value and Solar Net Energy Metering — A Primer.

ILSR offered these comments to the MN Public Utilities Commission in February 2018 about preserving high values for the state's «value of solar» calculation.

In March 2014, Minnesota became the first state to adopt a «value of solar» policy.

LIPA and PSEG - LI have plans for more conventional fossil power plants to meet future demand, but the utility is also beginning to see the value of solar power.

A top German economist found that the value of wind to the European grid drops 40 percent once it becomes 30 percent of electricity, while the value of solar drops by half when it gets to just 15 percent.

usa.gov / 1u3Z2Qa) on the value of solar and wind on the western electric grid details the overall reductions in emissions that would result from higher levels of wind and solar electricity.

That's just two quotes from a value of solar conversation between ILSR's John Farrell and Karl Rábago of the Pace Energy and Climate Center that took place online on July 8,... Read More