power purchase Articles
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Lincoln Farms I-IV, Fayetteville, TN - Utility-Scale Ground-Mounted Projects - Case Study
VISSOLIS structured, designed, financed, installed, and owns and manages the Lincoln Farm projects. Technically, they are four projects of 750 kW each but since they were built the same time and with the same stakeholders in the project, we consider it to be a 3 MW project. It was the first project for VISSOLIS in the USA. The power is purchased be Tennessee Valley Authority over 20 years under a ...
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Dispatchable Power Purchase Agreements and Your Future
Over the last decade we have witnessed an unprecedented use of the PPA. It has financed billions of dollars of solar projects around the world. But they are going to change. Utilities no longer look at solar the same way. And you shouldn’t as well. With the advent of more storage options every day, you and your solar plant will behave differently. No longer will you be pushing power ...
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Aloha Solar Case Study
Altus Power America acquired a Tier 3 Feed-In Tariff (FIT) project and needed to have it rapidly built to meet the deadline for the power purchase agreement’s guaranteed completion date. The project included upgrading a substation. REC Solar built the entire 5 MW (AC) system plus substation in 5 months. The energy from the project is being purchased by Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) on a ...
By REC Solar
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An Analysis of the European Solar Market
Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the analyst group, foresees continued growth in PV installations up to around 1.4 TW of capacity by 2050, with Germany and France representing the two largest markets on the continent. The analyst firm expects annual installations to peak at roughly 70 GW around 2036, followed by a dip and then renewed activity, in excess of 50 GW a year, in the first half of ...
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UA Tech Park in Tucson, AZ - Utility-Scale Ground-Mounted Projects - Case Study
Experience – Hit the ground running Only a few weeks before year-end 2011, VISSOLIS was approached by the PV module manufacturer Astronergy to save a stalled project. It was developed by an unrelated party and was in danger of being cancelled because of the lack of fi nancing, expiration of the Power Purchase Agreement and the termination of the land lease. Within only a few weeks, ...
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5 reasons India needs a green power purchasing group
With more than 400 million of its 1.2 billion citizens without access to electricity, India needs extensive energy development. A new initiative aims to ensure that a significant portion of this new power comes in the form of renewable energy. The Green Power Market Development Group Today, WRI and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) launched the Green Power Market Development Group ...
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On the over-investment in automotive technology
This paper discusses the reasons for continuing very high levels of R&D spending in the automotive industry in spite of the fact that both the automobile and the market for automobiles are widely considered to be mature. Most R&D appears to be product and not process-related. The microelectronics revolution has to some extent rejuvenated the automobile. Besides that, government regulation has ...
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Data Analytics: Key Strategies to Manage Energy Costs in Cannabis Grow Facilities - Case Study
Cannabis grow facilities are one of the highest energy-intensive segments across regulated and competitive markets in North America. With energy for lighting, HVAC and other systems costing up to 50% of total operational spend, it is a significant containable cost. The savvy owner needs to know how to leverage energy information to create advantageous power management and purchasing strategies. ...
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Reform in Brazilian electricity industry: the search for a new model
The objective of this paper is to analyse the background of the reform process in the Brazilian Electricity Industry and to examine the adequacy of the new energy policy being implemented as a way to restore the level of investment, in particular private investment. The Brazilian experience of market-oriented reform questions the ability of the operational competition to ensure long-term ...
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Salaya power plant : 1,200 MW thermal power plant in Gujarat - Case Study
The Salaya project is a 1200 MW (2X600 MW) imported coal-based thermal power plant located in Jamnagar district in Gujarat. It has a 25-year PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) with GUVNL (Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ld), which means that the plant is responsible for supplying about 10% of the state’s power requirement. The project continues to ensure over 80% availability to its anchor customer, ...
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Risk sharing in hydropower development: case study of the Chukha Hydel Project in Bhutan
The Himalayan rivers have an enormous hydropower potential that is still not exploited fully for the benefit of the region. Bhutan and Nepal together have an economically feasible potential of 60,000 MW of hydroelectric power generation capacity but are too weak financially to bear the risks associated with the development of their hydro resources alone. India is the only potential market for ...
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Bath Michigan Solar Installation Case Study
Project Overview Patriot worked with Peninsula Solar to design a racking system that would work with limited space and not penetrate the ground surface. The ground mount array utilized a non-penetrating ballasted design to work with the existing terrain on top of an underground house. To save space in the yard, the North row utilized a longer post to allow closer inner-row spacing. 32 solar ...
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Wilga Park Coal Seam Methane Power Station (Narrabri) - Case Study
Wilga Park Coal Seam Methane Power Station The project is the sole undertaking of the company's wholly owned subsidiary Narrabri Power Limited and comprises:- A coal seam gas gathering and processing system to deliver gas from the Coonarah Field, to the power station site at Wilga Park, 12 kilometres west of Narrabri, on land owned by the company. A power station comprising 11 x 1 MWe GE ...
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California Polytechnic University Case Study
California Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) is a university in the California State University system and has been ranked the Best in the West 24 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report. As part of their net zero sustainability plan, the university wanted to build a solar farm on land adjacent to the campus. REC Solar was selected by Cal Poly to build a 4.5 megawatt (AC) solar farm. ...
By REC Solar
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500kW Wind Turbine for AG Barr - Case Study
From their production facility in Cumbernauld, AG Barr Plc produces some of Scotland’s favourite drinks. This includes Irn Bru, Strathmore Water and Rockstar. Wishing to upgrade the site and expand, AG Barr faced either a substantial upgrade fee from Scottish Power in excess of £1,000,000 or to think outside the box and find other ways of delivering additional power. The natural fit ...
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The adoption of cogeneration in the Japanese manufacturing sector: technological, economic and institutional determinants
Combined heat and power (CHP) has been identified by the Second and Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a powerful carbon abating technology. In this paper, we review trends and overall changes in power generation technologies insofar as these affect industrial CHP in Japan; we also propose an empirical model for the analysis of CHP adoption based on time ...
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SBA-Visa Export Video Contest - 5th place winning video: The World And Beyond
Ninety-six percent of the world’s consumers live outside of the United States and represent two-thirds of the world’s purchasing power. U.S. companies that export enjoy business success with increased sales and profit potential. Exporting also helps businesses weather downturns in the domestic economy by being prepared to respond to foreign competition and global market trends. 1st ...
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Prepaid Meter, Do You Know About It?
Prepaid meter cames into being due to frequent difficulties in recharging and was widely used, especially in Africa Market. According to the power purchase and recharge methods, prepaid meter can be divided into IC card smart prepaid meter and STS smart prepaid meter. According to the external structure, prepaid meter can be divided into BS type prepaid meter and din rail type prepaid meter. ...
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CSP players work towards JNNSM deadline
CSP Today take another look at the steps that developers in India are taking to meet the National Solar Mission deadlines next year In December 2010 the Phase I bidding process of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in India was completed with more than sixty companies submitting bids. It is now widely agreed that Phase I resulted in aggressive bidding on the part of project ...
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Do you know the difference? STS prepaid electric meter and IC card prepaid electricity meter
In Africa,such as Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ethiopia, etc, residential electricity metering basically uses prepaid electricity meters, especially STS standard prepaid meters.Prepaid meters are also widely used in other countries, mainly used in rental housing, shopping malls, school and factory dormitories, new energy power generation projects, etc. The functions of prepaid energy meters are also ...
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