It produces more juice (5 billion kilowatt-hours per year) than a typical coal-fired plant.
Donald Markeley, Southeast's chief operating officer, plans to sell 165 million kilowatt-hours a year of electric output at maybe 8 cents apiece.
Thanks to its heavily insulated roof and double-glazed, low-emissivity glass throughout, Mayhem Manor's electricity consumption is a modest 8, 300 kilowatt-hours a year.
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But in Germany the panel would average an output of only 1, 800 kilowatt-hours a year, a third less than it would in a sunny place like Spain.
The proposed cable would be capable of exporting around five terawatt-hours (or five billion kilowatt-hours) each year, which is enough to power around 1.25 million European households.
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Russian buildings leak energy like sieves: they use 425 kilowatt-hours per square metre a year, compared with 135 in Sweden and 120 in the United States.
As a result, the German power generators' association, the BDEW, says gas-fired electricity output in Germany fell last year by 13bn kilowatt hours, or 16 per cent, while coal-fired plants upped output by the same amount, recording a 5 per cent increase to 275.8bn kWh.
SunPower's five-year growth plan will lower the cost of solar power to 12 to 18 cents per kilowatt-hour, positioning solar energy as a key peaking energy resource to meet our growing power demands.
Ted Wiley, an Aquion vice president, tells me the company is currently deploying in the kilowatt-hour scale, but will have megawatt-hour systems online next year.
Weighing 205 pounds, the unit comes with a five-year warranty and is capable of producing up to 400 kilowatt hours of clean electricity per month (based on prelim data).
The recession and a surge in the number of new power plants brought online had cut the prices it could charge for generating electricity--its core business--from a peak of 25 cents per kilowatt-hour (in California, December 2000) to 2.7 cents a year later.
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