There will be factories for cement and steel beams for new apartment and office buildings, for furniture and solar power panels.
For instance, homes equipped with solar-power panels could feed unused electricity back into the grid, adding to the total available supply.
The prospect of getting a piece of that growth has fueled the stocks of companies such as Sunpower, the leader in producing traditional silicon solar-power panels, and First Solar, whose thin-film solar panels are cheaper to manufacture but are less efficient.
The customer agrees to buy all the power the panels produce at a set rate.
The wings are covered with a sheet of thin-film solar panels, which produce less power than the polycrystalline solar panels found on buildings, but are very lightweight.
The Solaria panels thus produce similar power at comparable efficiencies as standard panels while using fewer materials.
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They see a sunny future for firms that generate power from solar panels, wind turbines and so forth.
Using its proprietary crystalline technology, called String Ribbon, the company develops and manufactures solar power cells and panels.
This is the part of the satellite that generates power through solar panels, and keeps the platform on-station using a propulsion system.
Orion, for example, was able to open with the help of small business loans and incentives that are creating demand for clean energy technologies like wind power and solar panels.
So, a solar power plant equipped with a QBotix robot will generate power at a levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) that is 8 to 15 percent lower than a power plant with single-axis tracker and 15 to 20 percent lower than a power plan with panels in fixed positions.
Cheaper prices have made solar panels more attractive to power plant developers and companies that install solar panels on the roofs of homes and businesses, however.
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The garage itself strives to be green, with much of its power coming from solar panels.
His toilet uses solar panels to power an electrochemical system that turns waste into useful things.
SunRun and its financing partners collect the local and federal subsidies, and earn revenue when the panels produce power.
The fiberglass hull glides on the surface, with solar panels to power its electronics and sealed boxes to protect data-gathering instruments.
Project manager Gillian Smith's job is to co-ordinate the company's own contributions to the satellite: power systems, solar panels and other hardware.
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Inverters and microinverters convert the direct current (DC) power produced by solar panels into alternating current (AC) used in homes and businesses.
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That could happen about five years from now, perhaps using a laser on the International Space Station to transmit solar power collected by its panels to Earth.
Yet it's scarcely visible in the market for solar panel inverters, devices that turn the direct current power generated by solar panels into alternating current for the grid.
Areva would buy the panels for its hybrid solar power plant, though it is unclear how exactly Areva plants to integrate the electricity-generating panels with its solar-concentrating mirrors and steam system.
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And the Staples Center is generating its own power with hundreds of solar panels.
The solar panels will generate power during the day, of course, while people are more likely to recharge their vehicles at night.
Two, they can substitute grid-based power with self-generated power, i.e. power produced onsite using solar panels, fuel cells or whatever that never flows through the grid.
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Improvements still have to be made to make such a product viable, he said, such as reducing the thickness of the panels and reducing power consumption.
The production of modern wind turbines, solar panels and nuclear power plants are extremely energy-intensive enterprises, and are by and large powered by the burning of fossil fuels.
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Back in 2004, researchers presented Carly Fiorina with a business plan for a vertically integrated company that would produce solar panels and operate power plants built on its own products.
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Such a grid is being tested at the army's model forward operating base (FOB) in Fort Irwin, California, along with prototypes of a mobile, hybrid power station that combines solar panels and wind turbines with a conventional generator.
Beyond that, it was fascinating to see seeing what Detroit automakers are doing to reduce their carbon footprints, like using green roofs that insulate their buildings, porous pavement to filter rain water and even solar panels to help power their facilities.
It also houses a large array of solar panels to provide the power.
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