Solar Energy Storage Articles
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Solar construction and retrofitting obligation for all buildings and structural systems?
Climate-active despite Brexit Great Britain has declared the "climate emergency" - just like London, Los Angeles, Oakland, Vancouver, Basel, now Constance - while in Germany even in some environmental protection circles there are discussions about whether the word should be used at all. And about what a “climate emergency” is supposed to mean and bring about. On the Brexit-shaken ...
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Europe solar investors adapt contracts to supply smaller, riskier firms
Growing demand from smaller corporate renewable offtakers is spurring multi-layered power purchase agreements and new risk aggregator models, experts told the PV Operations Europe 2019 conference. The global corporate renewable PPA market is growing fast as companies capitalize on falling costs to meet rising sustainable development targets. The U.S. has led PPA growth but demand in Europe ...
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Next-Gen Battery Storage
A utility in Oregon recently announced the largest wind-solar-storage project in the U.S that will generate nearly 380 MW of energy. This is a good example of how utilities are storing energy from intermittent sources (like wind or solar) in grid-scale batteries. Grid-scale batteries are the perfect match to wind and solar installations, storing energy during peak production and releasing power ...
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Should you be getting solar storage for your home ?
Power outages & blackouts across the U.S. have been getting worse be it because of hurricanes like Irma, Harvey, Maria & more recently Florence or other natural disasters like snow storms, floods, etc that have caused billions of dollars in damages & have torn through cities to leave human lives in disarray. An out-of-date grid infrastructure can’t keep up with our increasingly ...
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Q&A: MIT Professor Donald Sadoway On The Future Of Battery Storage and Renewable Energies
For over two thousands years, scientists have experimented with ways to capture the energy of the sun. Archimedes in 212 BC, for instance, famously rigged a system of mirrors that was used to spark fires aboard enemy ships—sort of like an ancient heat ray. Over time, the methods of capturing solar energy have obviously evolved (and perhaps become a bit less dramatic) but there are ...
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7 Amazing Blogs That Will Help To Start Your Solar Business
Many new business people have not learned the basic knowledge of his or her industry, product and market trends when they enter a new business. That is an obstacle for them to communicate with their clients and suppliers. With solid knowledge of solar products, PV market trends and clients’ solar demand can help you make your market strategy and purchasing strategy. According to our ...
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2018 Top 10 Solar Panel Manufacturers & Companies In China
When you are looking for solar panel manufacturer & companies, you may want to know how much do solar panels cost? you would like to find some suppliers to ask their prices based on the same specification and then you can compare the prices and choose your best solar panels supplier which is in your budget. As we know, China is the largest solar panels supplier in the world and there are ...
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Solar Industrial Process Heating - Industrial Process Heating with Solar Power - The Artic Solar Solution
Thermal energy and steam are required for industrial processes. From the extraction of raw materials; Gas, mining, food and beverage processing, sanitation, commercial laundries and distillation heat is a vital part of the processing and manufacturing sectors. In the last several years, interest in using solar thermal collectors to generate the heat needed for industrial processes and ...
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Solar Energy Advantages and Disadvantages
Electricity is essential to every household. But what happens to those households in remote areas where electrification on the grid is not possible? The off grid home solar power system becomes very important in providing electricity in such homes. It is a stand-alone photovoltaic system which offers a cost-effective means of delivering a facility for lighting and appliances in the rural homes. ...
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Clayhill – the UK’s first subsidy-free solar farm
Project Outline: Clayhill solar farm, located in Milton Keynes, was officially opened on 26 September 2017 by Claire Perry MP, the UK Minister for Climate Change & Industry. It took 12 weeks to complete and combines the latest in solar and energy storage technology, with 10MW of solar PV co-located with 5 energy storage units totalling 6MW. Anesco’s team navigated a range of ...
By Anesco Ltd
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Solar Plus Energy Storage - A guide to maximizing production and profit with a DC converter
Traditional storage plus solar (PV) applications have involved the coupling of independent storage and PV inverters at an AC bus, or alternatively the use of multi-input hybrid inverters. Here we will examine how a new cost-effective approach of coupling energy storage to existing PV arrays with a DC-to-DC converter can help maximize production and profi ts for existing and new utility-scale ...
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Tracking clean energy progress
Each year, the IEA’s Tracking Clean Energy Progress (TCEP) report examines developments across a range of clean energy sectors and technologies. The TCEP uses benchmarks for 2025 as modelled in Energy Technology Perspectives 2017, as well as the milestones identified in the IEA Technology Roadmaps. Measuring against these benchmarks provides an assessment of whether technologies, energy ...
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Integrating Solar Lights with Motion Sensors
Solar powered motion sensor lights are effective security accessories for remote locations that experience sufficient amounts of sunlight throughout the day. The units offer seamless installation, require minimal maintenance and remain operational without electrical support. Locations without dependable access to the grid may find solar security lights useful in maintaining illumination at ...
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Chemistry Future: Priorities and Opportunities from the Sustainability Perspective
Abstract To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of ChemSusChem, we as the chairmen of the editorial board are writing this Essay to summarize important scientific contributions to our journal during the past decade in terms of sustainable science and technology. Bibliometric analysis of published papers show that biorefinery, solar energy conversion, energy-storage materials, and carbon ...
By SusChem
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Study: 100% Renewable Electricity System is the Cheapest Option for South America
Transitioning to a fully renewable electricity system is possible for South America by 2030. A study by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. also shows that a 100 percent renewable system (100% RE) is the cheapest electricity production option and can be achieved with very little energy storage. "South America has a unique renewable energy ...
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Smart Electric Vehicle Charging Saves City Money - Case Study
Challenge Located between San Francisco and Sacramento, the City of Benicia is an ideal place for electric vehicle (EV) drivers to stop and charge should their cars be low on range. However, the city’s existing infrastructure took four-to-six hours to fully charge a vehicle. In an effort to provide a better option for commuters, and draw additional visitors to Benicia’s vibrant ...
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Energy Storage 301: Solar + Storage Economics - Case Study
In this post we examine the economics of solar + storage. Specifically, we calculate the value of solar and storage for two commercial buildings in each of three markets: California, New York, and Hawaii. We find solar and storage are strongly synergistic in all three markets. The NPVs of solar + storage investments are greater than the sum of the NPVs of solar investments and storage ...
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Solar + Storage: How to Develop & Sell High Value Projects
In September 2016, Geli hosted a webinar on how to develop and sell high value solar + storage projects. Watch our webinar to learn more about: Qualifying projects Creating a business case Procuring financing Developing compelling customer presentations This webinar is the third in a series. If you have not seen our first two webinars, you will want to watch them first: Solar + ...
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How green energy will change Africa
In 1977, the average price of generating energy from sunshine was $76.67 a watt. Today, the price has dropped to just $0.60 a watt. It’s a stunning 99.2% drop in 38 years, and solar energy is soon going to reach “grid parity” all over the world – the point where it is cheaper, or at least equivalent in price to grid electricity from conventional sources. Last ...
By HydroBox NV
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Solar-Plus-Storage – Why 1 + 1 = 3
In April 2016, Geli partnered with the Rocky Mountain Institute to host a webinar explaining the value of solar-plus-storage for commercial and industrial customers. Watch our video recordings to learn how combining energy storage and solar PV can increase customer savings and boost project ROI. Solar-Plus-Storage: Building the Business Case This first video walks through a ...
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