Will solar photovoltaics (PV) be considered real property for purposes of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) ownership?
The NGIPS platform is critical for clean energy, especially variable resources like wind power and solar photovoltaics.
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However, the report suggests that solar photovoltaics will continue to be among the more expensive options for some years.
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This is Google first investment in the U.S. in utility scale solar photovoltaics.
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Rare earths are in CFL light bulbs, solar photovoltaics, and dozens of other devices environmentalists want in the energy mix.
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Researchers are leveraging GridEye to gain insight about the impact of integrating renewable-energy sources like solar photovoltaics and wind power into the mainstream power grid.
But the market expansion of renewable technologies has made possible cost reductions in some sectors, such as wind and solar photovoltaics (PV), and such trends are set to continue.
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Unlike some clean-energy technologies (e.g. solar photovoltaics), CHP does not depend heavily on government largesse to walk the chalk in de-regulated electric power markets like those in New York State.
In recent years, this dynamic has become especially problematic as technological advances have accelerated market penetration of customer-sited solar photovoltaics, combined heat and power and other genres of distributed generation.
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In the very near future, the North American power grid will be populated by a bewildering array of distributed energy resources ranging from building-integrated solar photovoltaics and micro-cogen to intelligent control systems and mesh network lighting.
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Of that total, hydropower and wind provided the majority, while photovoltaics and solar thermal contributed approximately 5%.
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But all it would take is another halving or two of the cost of photovoltaics for solar to be a real winner.
Bosch Solar Energy has struggled to compete in crystalline photovoltaics amid a global supply glut that has depressed solar PV module prices.
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But photovoltaics vendor Evergreen Solar (nasdaq: ESLR - news - people ) is up fivefold since 2003.
But photovoltaics vendor Evergreen Solar is up fivefold since 2003.
Photovoltaics, often called solar energy, is the process of converting sunlight to electrical energy.
Whereas being extremely big remains optional for photovoltaics, for thermal-solar companies such as BrightSource it is a must.
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DuPont expects its sales of photovoltaics, used to make solar panels, will grow by more than 50% in 2010, according to TradeTheNews.com.
Then there are the prospects for photovoltaics, and the important role solar energy will play in the future.
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The biggest challenges for using solar power for energy are clouds and sunset the electricity produced by photovoltaics needs to be efficiently stored to provide power on overcast days and overnight.
"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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The next area where solar may make huge gains is integration into the skin of buildings, what is know as Building Integrated Photovoltaics, or BIPV.
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