Tag Archives: scale
Tanita’s New Solar Weighing Scale
Over consumption of energy leads to disastrous results, and that is notonly true for the planet! With most people opting for the most clichédNew Year resolution of slimming down, this year you can add a littlegreen twist. Tanita solar technology has come out with the new TanitaHS-302 Solar Digital Scale which combines Japanese electronics [...]
Surge in Utility-Scale Photovoltaics Coming in 2010
Until now, the U.S. solar photovoltaics (PV) market has beendominated by small to intermediate-scale systems installed on thecustomer side of the meter, which serve to displace grid electricityused by individual electricity customers with clean solar-generatedelectricity. This clearly made sense when PV costs were stillrelatively high because “behind-the-meter” PV electricity competesagainst retail utility electricity rates, or [...]
Suniva solar cell technology powers India’s first large-scale solar project
Suniva Inc., a US manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystallinesilicon solar cells and supplier of Suniva-branded solar modules, todayannounced the completion of its collaborative project with Titan EnergySystems Ltd. to create India’s first large-scale project in Jamuria,West Bengal. Suniva’s cells power the 1MW solar electric power plant which is expected to expand an additional 250kW early next [...]
3 Common Misperceptions About Utility Scale Renewable Energy
In conversations about utility scale renewable energy, I’m consistently running into the same three misperceptions. #1: Renewable energy requires new transmission.When utilities and policy makers think large scale renewable energy,they think first about wind and concentrating solar thermal. Forutility scale generation, both technologies have had a head startversus solar PV (and, therefore, are more top-of-mind). [...]
Solar: Is It About Cost or Scale?
It’sabout both evolving together. For the first time in history amanufactured good — a solar photovoltaic (PV) panel — can supplyenergy. Traditionally, we have consumed resources to make power.Burning wood, coal, oil or natural gas has been the norm. Today we can follow the “learning curve” typical of manufacturedproducts like transistors or big screen TVs [...]
PSEG Solar Source, juwi solar Plan Three Large-Scale Solar Projects
PSEG Solar Source says it has completed its acquisition of two utility-scale solar projects from juwi solar Inc. Theprojects will be located in Florida and Ohio. PSEG is also developing athird solar project, which will be located in New Jersey. The threeprojects will all be completed by the end of 2010 and will have a [...]
Suntech (STP): China Preparing Launch Of Feed In Tariffs For Utility Scale Solar Plants
In comments made following earnings late last week, Suntech CEO Zhengrong Shi indicated that the Chinese government may soon roll out its largest solar subsidy program yet,which would send the China solars on another flight higher. Hepredicts that a feed in tariff program for utility scale solar plantswould provide .16 – .22 kWh and be [...]
How Does Large Scale Solar Energy Work?
Image: Glenn, picasa Did you know that seventy minutes of sunlight is equal to one year of global energy consumption? [United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)]. Researchersare looking to the southwestern U.S. to be an enormous solar energyregion as we look for ways to move beyond fossil fuels. How can wegenerate megawatts of power for consumers [...]
Low-Cost DSC Technology Gains on Solar PV
A combination of international technology giants and small-scalestartups may soon bring dye-sensitive solar cell (DSC) technology to arooftop near you. Now, DSC isn’t as efficient as solar photovoltaic (PV) conversion,whose silicon-based cells currently dominate the global market forrooftop generation… But researchers at Israel’s 3GSolar hope to make an advantage outof DSC’s low-cost organic dyes and [...]