distributed solar Articles
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States Wrestle with Making Net Metering More Equitable
California has blown open a debate about net metering and whether some rollbacks might be needed to ensure a more equitable and resilient grid. For those in the sustainability industry, getting net metering policies adopted has been hard fought—and looking back, generally hard won. Net metering (the practice in which utilities credit customers for the excess electricity generated by ...
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Investigation of the characteristics of the reflectivity of clouds
This paper investigates some of the reflectivity characteristics that clouds (when modelled as solid bodies) must exhibit to be compatible with observations that the reflecting surface of a cloud (i) appears almost equally bright across its face, (ii) is brightest when the cloud is opposite to the Sun but decreases in brightness as the cloud moves to other positions and (iii) increases in ...
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The 1TW EU Solar Pathway for 2030
Recently, the development of renewable energy sources has become an urgent need due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which has led to energy shortages in Europe. European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans has proposed an energy strategy that aims to separate Europe from Russian gas as soon as possible, while protecting citizens from painful and increasing energy price shocks. ...
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Solar potential for the solar photovoltaic roof integration system in China explored by the geographic information system
This paper estimates the potential solar power for the solar photovoltaic Roof Integration System (RIS) using the Geographic Information System (GIS) method, taking into account the geographic distribution of solar irradiation and the estimate of costs for the RIS and identifies the distribution of potential solar energy radiating on the RIS and power. The total urban roof area is estimated to be ...
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A commercial approach to solar power distribution in India
In India, approximately 5,000 of 79,000 unelectrified villages, either unapproachable from the grid line or subject to uneconomic viability, are awaiting electricity through SPV power as the only suitable technological option. SPV power, which is expensive in capital cost, although affordable in tariff, is on successful trial through a novel scheme that is subsidy-free. Limited scale ...
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Power electronics for distributed and co-generation
Distributed and Co-Generation has great growth potential, as the world is becoming more energy dependent and energy demanding. Distributed and Co-Generation creates alternative solutions to serve the growing energy market. In this paper, a comprehensive review of the different sources of distributed power is discussed including the main sources of the dispersed generation such as solar energy, ...
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US$7m APP Mega Solar Project
In this project Partners aim to create a landmark endorsement project, the “Asia-Pacific Partnership Mega Solar Project.” This project aims to install megawatt scale (MW) solar PV units at a number of locations across Korea through a series of financed, managed, and delivered projects. Australia’s BP Solar will leverage its presence and experience in five of the Partner countries to contribute to ...
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Application! Bi-directional electricity meter
https://www.ytl-e.com/news/quarterly-publication/application-bidirectional-electricity-meter.html Bi-directional electricity meter is more and more popular in the world. Energy, current, power are directional, Bi-directional energy meter is to measure forward energy and reverse energy separately. The power data that the bidirectional metering energy meter needs to measure should also be increased ...
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The Challenge Of Strengthening Environmental Entrepreneurship
This is the first installment of a five-part blog series on scaling environmental entrepreneurship in emerging markets. In forthcoming posts, experts in the field will provide insights on how business accelerators, technical assistance providers, investors, and the philanthropic community can work with developing market entrepreneurs to increase their economic, environmental, and social impacts. ...
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Project - Sigmaplantas
Industry: Solar power plants. Partners: ISFOC, Isofoton. Description: This project include the design and development of a microplant of heliostats to concentrate solar radiation into a cogeneration receiver to generate electricity and storage hot water. Solar MEMS team participated in the design and development of an heliostat with sun sensors for a high accurate aiming of the sun ...
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Integration of solar photovoltaic (PV) to LV distribution network: a case study
The development of renewable energy sources will increase the amount of generation connected to distribution networks. The main advantages are that optimally located distributed generation resources can reduce or postpone the need for investment in the transmission and distribution infrastructure; transmission and distribution losses are reduced as well as improvement in power quality and system ...
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The Future of Nano Coating Solar Street Lights
Although it is commonly thought that shade is the worst threat to a solar panel’s productivity, dirt can be an even greater problem. As dirt, dust and debris like bird poop collect on its surface, the productivity of a panel is markedly reduced over time unless cleaned regularly. While doing such maintenance might be easy for small, compact array, the time and labor it takes to keep widely ...
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A step in the right direction for solar in the Middle East
The Emirates Solar Industry Association (ESIA) are taking significant steps towards promoting solar development in the UAE and Middle East after holding its first ever Annual General Meeting. The association has appointed eight members to the board of which comprise several senior level key influencers within the solar community. Members from Siemens, Taylor Wessing, Masdar and Environmena will ...
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4 Reasons renewable energy is ready for the president’s climate action plan
The White House’s climate action plan aims to transform the U.S. electricity system in the coming decades. The President directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement standards to reduce carbon dioxide pollution from power plants, double renewable energy in the United States by 2020, and open public lands to an additional 10 gigawatts of renewable energy ...
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‘Energy democracy’ becomes more real
Will new technologies democratize energy much the way the Internet did information? Industry movement seems to point in that direction with the rise of the smart grid, time-of-day pricing, distributed solar, and the electric vehicle. Together these technologies offer a vision of a less centralized energy system, one where communities and households ‘vote in’ or shape the electric ...
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Illinois Utilities Begin to Design Community Solar Programs Under New Energy Law
Illinois utilities and regulators are putting into motion plans for community solar programs under the state’s Future Energy Jobs Act that passed last year. In filings with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) last month, ComEd outlined proposed terms and conditions for “Community Supply,” also referred to as community solar. Ameren Illinois has also recently filed ...
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Renewable Energy is Vital for National Security and Financial Stability
A Tipping Point, Part 2 “Follow the money,” Deep Throat tells Bob Woodward in All The President’s Men. That approach often works for investigators – and for investors. But sometimes it can backfire dramatically, as when all Wall Street flocked to overpriced derivatives that collapsed in 2008. Now, some leading central bankers, regulators and investors ...
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Debbie Dooley: Making the Tea Party — and America — a little greener
When you think of the Tea Party, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn’t renewable energy. Debbie Dooley, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots and founder of the Green Tea Coalition, is out to change that. She’s shaking up politics — and politicians — from the Deep South to D.C. with calls for “energy freedom” and more distributed solar ...
By Ensia
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What is a renewable energy meter?
Renewable energy meter refers to the power meter that measures the situation of renewable energy generation. Different types of renewable energy generation require different measurement products, so renewable energy meters need to be customized according to the specific application requirements. Renewable energy includes solar energy, hydro power, wind power, biomass energy, wave energy, tidal ...
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4 Insights on Unlocking Finance for Clean Energy Access in Africa
January heralds the start of not just a new year, but a new decade: the U.N. Decade of Sustainable Energy for All. In declaring the Decade, the U.N. has urged its members to help “make universal access to sustainable modern energy services a priority.” One of the regions where universal access to clean energy remains a pressing challenge is sub-Saharan Africa, where roughly 590 ...
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