California recently set a record for winter solar power generation, almost reaching the previous record set this summer of just over 1 gigawatt of solar energy.
For instance, the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory concluded in a 2008 analysis that Sudan has about 250 times the solar power generation potential as Gambia.
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Edifier's factory is located in a special high tech economic zone with emphasis on environmental sustainability including state of the art recycling, solar power generation and treated water reuse.
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The Other Building Materials and Equipment Business segment offers wooden interior furnishing materials, interior fabrics, external tiles for houses and buildings, internal decorative tiles, siding, stone materials, roofing materials, precut products, and solar power generation systems.
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In fact, as I was talking to the folks from Sempra, they were explaining that this location is almost optimal for solar power generation, not only because it's flat, transmission lines were already here, the sun is traveling and there's no haze and it's absolutely clear.
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Fab 15 will be TSMC's next "green fab" following Fab 12 and Fab 14, incorporating green concepts in energy conservation and pollution control in its design, including a process water conservation rate of 85%, reclamation of rainwater, recirculation and reuse of general exhaust heat, and development of solar power generation and LED lighting applications.
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In February it said it will increase its solar-power generation capacity nearly eightfold to more than 10, 000 megawatts by March 2017.
The other thing that we have to do is look at things like wind power and solar power and the next generation of electric vehicles.
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Then there's a small-technology approach: solar power, wind energy and distributed generation.
On top of that, power-generation companies have benefited greatly as the price of generating solar power has fallen.
Solar technology has lower capacity since its power generation is constrained by availability of the sun.
Chu has long been on record as a staunch advocate of reducing the nation's carbon emissions by vastly expanding generation from wind and solar power.
Its calculations do demonstrate that power generation projects that use solar panels and geothermal technologies will be cheap enough to start to replace coal by 2030.
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In 2011, the three utilities collectively secured 20.6% of the electricity sold to retail customers from solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable power generation.
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Technologically, spin-offs from the space program have revolutionized fields from medicine to energy generation (solar panels were made to power satellites) to breakfast drinks.
"SunPower is offering Ford plug-in vehicle owners the world's most efficient solar power systems to ensure they maximize emission-free power generation for use at home and for their vehicles, " says Ken Fong, SunPower general manager, Americas.
Yet for all the hoopla that renewable energy receives, wind and solar account for just 6% of total U.S. power generation.
The relentless pursuit of technical improvements has brought solar and wind power prices down enough to compete with conventional energy-generation technologies in many markets.
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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The former requires a greater amount of water for power generation while the latter still needs water but for washing solar panels periodically.
Although Japanese firms are leaders in green technologies such as wind, solar and geothermal, these sources account for only 1% of all power generation.
Fraunhofer also will design a system to allow the solar energy equipment to check itself for proper installation and to send its power generation data to the local utility.
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Planetary Power plans to follow-up their introduction of HyGen with a truly unique solar hybrid power generator early next year that will again change the game for energy generation both on and off the power grid.
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James Woolsey said in Chicago Thursday night, and America needs distributed generation as backup primarily in the form of natural-gas cogeneration and solar power.
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In general, the solar thermal has greater flexibility when used with co-generation systems, such as combining production of power and thermal for desalination or absorption cooling.
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