Sentences with phrase «where solar capacity»

These issues — both grid instability and the need for expensive inverter retrofits — occurred in Germany, where solar capacity expanded very rapidly over the span of ten years.

The top five states where solar capacity is being added are California (3.9 GW), North Carolina (1.1 GW), Nevada (0.9 GW), Texas (0.7 GW), and Georgia (0.7 GW).

Not exact matches

Our staff has also found months where the total installed utility - scale solar capacity estimated by FERC has been smaller than individual projects which we have observed coming online in a given month.

As of March, according to USAID figures, Power Africa has helped close deals accounting for 4,100 MW of electricity in places like Rwanda, where East Africa's largest solar array began sending 8.5 MW of electricity to the national grid late last year, boosting the country's electricity generation capacity by 6 percent.

The neighborhood where he lives already has solar capacity at 100 percent of the minimum daily load.

But wouldn't a closer model be the first order ODE, where the difference between absorbed solar power and lost black body power has to equal the change in temperature with respect to time multiplied by the terrestrial and atmospheric combined heat capacity:

Where I live, a perfectly placed solar panel delivers 800 kWh per year per kWp (= kW peak rated capacity).

Building enough new solar and wind capacity to meet California's 33 percent renewables by 2020 mandate will not be easy — but reliably getting the electricity generated by those resources to the places where it will be consumed may be even tougher.

While still far behind top distributed solar PV states, several states saw notable growth in 2015, including Nevada, where distributed PV capacity more than doubled from 49 MW to 129 MW.

The key finding: on average, homebuyers are «consistently willing to pay PV home premiums» of approximately $ 4 per watt of installed solar capacity (note: this study only covered homes where the solar PV system was owned, not leased).

The significance of these announcements are that these are some of the first announcements of power plant - scale solar projects in China, where there has been at the end of 2007 an installed capacity of only 0.08 GW of solar compared to nearly 6 GW of wind.

This is evident for example in their installation of solar energy, where EU nations have three of the top four and four of the top seven nations in installed capacity (Figure 2).

(F) Megawatts from a demonstrated and assured minimum of distributed solar electric generation capacity in instances where peak period and peak demand conditions are directly related to solar radiation and accompanying heat.

MNRE said: «Superimposition of wind and solar resource maps shows that there are large areas where both wind and solar have high to moderate potential,» adding that a twin - track approach could smooth output to the grid and make maximum use of existing network capacity.

Should clarify: do the CO2 emissions of the additional conventional capacity increase by the same percentage as the capacity increases in a scenario where the share of renewables (namely wind and solar) increases too?

Texas is one state where new electric capacity is largely expected to come from solar power.

In total, the power company has about 8.3 GW of coal, oil and gas - fired resources currently available, so this would mean a 44 % reduction in its fossil capacity, and a fleet where wind and solar represent a majority of capacity, if not necessarily generation.

According to the US government's Energy Information Administration (EIA), 1,900 utility - scale PV plants across the US lie in the eclipse's path but said that «relatively little solar PV capacity» will actually be in locations where they will be significantly affected.

Electricity prices in the nuclear sensitivity case are the same or slightly less than in the compliance case where new wind and solar capacity are the major compliance options.

In a world where some of the utilities» most profitable corporate customers — from Apple to Ikea to Mars — are investing massively in their own electricity generation capacity (and imposing carbon prices on themselves); where smart home technology promises to cut bills, even for those folks who can't be bothered in programming their thermostat; where LEDs are becoming so cheap they are a no - brainer, even for the anti-environmental crowd; where solar prices keep dropping dramatically and battery - storage innovation is just ramping up, there's good reason for investors to consider alternative options to traditionally «safe» investment in utilities.

2 Small - scale solar photovoltaic systems are electricity generators with less than one megawatt of electricity generating capacity that are usually at or near the location where the electricity is consumed.

With low maintenance and replacement costs, he believes the system will significantly reduce the cost of solar energy from the current price of around $ 4 per watt of installed capacity to levels where is competes directly with fossil fuel - based energy sources.