Now the solar unit has two products to sell separately: the green tag and the power.
"We were worried as we are always worried because it meant uncertainty, " said Martha Duggan, the vice president of regulatory and government affairs for the solar unit of Energy Conversion Devices.
The solar mission in its first phase focused on areas already connected to the grid and had a pricing system that bundled four units of thermal electricity with one unit of solar-based power, which reduced the average per-unit cost of solar electricity.
To get this generation, many states now require fossil fuel powered generators to buy "green tags" from, for instance, solar generators, for every unit of power sold by that fossil plant.
Then there's a wall of solar panels attached to an electrolysis unit that turns water into hydrogen.
The council said the project was only possible due to a government subsidy which made a payment for every unit of electricity generated by solar panels.
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And, the company will consolidate its Solar Materials and SunEdison businesses into a single unit.
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For the average industry, the average company, we can make huge progress on solar, we can make huge progress on wind, but the unit costs -- energy costs that you get from those technologies relative to coal are still going to be pretty substantial.
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The control unit ends up in a lower orbit, but it can then use solar power and the electrodynamic properties of the tether to return to its original orbit.
Fetzer, a unit of beverage giant Brown-Forman, likes the environmentally friendly sheen that comes from using solar power.
But the sober message about wind and solar applies to all renewables: All renewables, much as I love them, deliver only a small power per unit area, so if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale at all comparable to our consumption, those facilities must be big.
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