It has ventured into large-scale utility power projects only recently with the acquisition of PowerLight Corporation.
It has ventured into large-scale utility power projects like the CSVR only recently with the acquisition of PowerLight Corporation.
Satcon (SATC) provides inverters to the large scale utility industry.
This is Google first investment in the U.S. in utility scale solar photovoltaics.
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For now, the precious few existing CCS pilot plants are not utility scale.
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There are a wide diversity of products available now, and not all of them are at this big, utility scale.
When the Rural Electrification Act was passed in 1936, only about 10 percent of rural America had access to utility scale electric power.
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The state has already surpassed the 20% mark (granted, much of this is still utility scale renewable investment, but increasingly more is happening at the consumer level).
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Under the agreement, Canadian Solar will provider TransCanada with 9 fully operational utility scale solar projects in Ontario that are expected to come into service between late 2012 and mid-2013.
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Today, he says that 29 utility scale solar, wind and geothermal projects have been approved to go on federal lands out west, all of which would provide 6, 500 megawatts of electricity.
Overall, utility scale plants with a total capacity of 3, 000 MW are presently under construction in the country and other projects totaling 6, 000 MW in capacity are in the early phases of development.
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This dynamic is also making things comparatively more difficult to build big, utility-scale solar power projects.
The end result is misaligned expectations, which could doom big, utility-scale projects to financial failure.
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Typical utility-scale biomass power plants burn 300, 000 to 800, 000 tons of wood a year.
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Yes, I know A123 also pursued the smart grid market to provide utility-scale storage.
Excluding utility-scale solar, rooftop installations actually increased 20% in the third quarter, the report stated.
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Utility-scale engineers long ago figured out this presents unprecedented operational, safety and control hurdles.
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They frequently depend on venture-capital funds which are dwarfed by the cost of even a single utility-scale power plant.
Private equity funds and investment banks acquire hundred-million-dollar-plus equity stakes in utility-scale wind farms and solar tax equity funds.
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The increase in so-called utility-scale installations masked relatively flat growth in residential rooftop solar and a fall-off in commercial installations.
Q-Cells is relatively new to the North American market, launching with its utility-scale product in 2009 and slowly building its business.
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The department said Chinese exporters were selling utility-scale wind towers in the at margins 45 to 70 percent cheaper than their U.S. counterparts.
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The Chinese manufacturer is marketing HiPerforma for all types of power generation projects, from rooftop systems for homes and businesses to utility-scale power plants.
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Because PV is easier to finance than concentrating solar thermal, a few utility-scale projects in the southwest U.S. have shifted over to PV.
Tanaka suggested that for starters the world needs each year to build 90 utility-scale concentrated solar plants, 17, 000 windmills, two Three Gorges Dams, and 18 nuclear plants.
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State mandates for renewable electricity have fueled the growth of utility-scale projects, the largest of which are materializing in western United States, particularly in California, Arizona and Nevada.
In 2007, Chevron-Texaco's venture capital arm bought significant stakes in two solar energy companies: BrightSource Energy, a developer of utility-scale solar plants, and Konarka Technologies, a developer of photovoltaic materials.
In particular, the rise of utility-scale, centralized renewable energy and the associated infrastructure they will require are propagating an ossified, state-oriented system for providing and paying for electric service.
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But gyrating panel prices and a maturing market have led both companies, along with other competitors, to venture ever further into the business of integrating panels into systems and developing and owning big, utility-scale solar farms.
Utility-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) systems that produce electricity using lenses or mirrors to focus radiation on thermal collectors or photovoltaic cells draw criticism from environmental groups for taking up too much desert land, thus displacing certain animal and reptile species.
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