Plans have been drawn up to bring a "community-owned" solar power plant to a Somerset village.
One early QBotix customer is Sol Orchard, a solar power plant developer based in Carmel, Calif.
When fully operational, the solar power plant will help California achieve its 33% renewable portfolio standard.
SunPower will continue to develop the project, and will design, build, operate and maintain the solar power plant.
GCL-Poly recently created a joint venture with New Jersey-based NRG Energy to provide solar power plant engineering and construction services.
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This month, in the Mojave Desert, a company called BrightSource plans to break ground on a revolutionary new type of solar power plant.
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Currently there are ways for solar power plant owners to crunch numbers to project how much electricity their power plants might generate year after year.
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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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Nanosolar announced Thursday that it had signed contracts to supply up to one gigawatt of its thin-film photovoltaic panels to European solar power plant builders over the next three to six years.
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Effectively they will be guaranteeing loans for a solar power plant in Arizona to be developed by Abengoa Solar, and for a solar production plant in Colorado to be built by Abound Solar.
The solar power plant is expected to create approximately 350 jobs during construction, will power about 100, 000 homes and will be one of the largest photovoltaic solar power plants in the world, when complete.
And now, for the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant -- the largest of its kind in the entire nation -- will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.
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We are delighted to have found in NRG a partner that shares our vision to build a solar power plant in San Luis Obispo County that enhances the local economy, protects local habitat and generates emission-free solar power for California.
Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive of the French nuclear giant Areva, hinted last week during a meeting in Forbes offices that Areva is developing a hybrid solar power plant concept that combines a solar thermal system with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels.
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In other words, First Solar is profiting from not just manufacturing its thin-film photovoltaic panels but the added fees that come from deploying tens of thousands of them in a solar power plant that it builds, operates and maintains and eventually sells to investors.
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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.
Heartening news rang forth from the renewable energy sector this week as a UN-backed study reported that the building of new renewable energy plants has officially overtaken fossil fuel plants in Europe and the US. We also took a look at two brand new types of power plants -- the world's first hydrogen-driven power plant in Italy and the first hybrid coal-solar power plant in Colorado.
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Several companies have pulled their IPOs over the past year, including solar thermal power plant builder BrightSource Energy.
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Google has invested directly in renewable energy projects, such as the 370-megawatt Ivanpah solar thermal power plant now under construction in California.
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Last month, Sharp and the Italian utility ENEL agreed to build a solar-power plant in Italy, allowing ENEL to sell large volumes of sun-generated energy.
The solar thermal power plant business is all about big: Square miles of mirrors in the desert that surround 600-foot-tall towers to generate massive megawatts of electricity for multibillion- dollar price tags.
Solar One, which went online in June, is the first solar thermal power plant built in 16 years and produces 64 megawatts of electricity during the peak midday hours, enough to power 14, 000 Nevada homes.
The Avalon wind project will generate up to 300 megawatts while the solar part of power plant will produce 100 megawatts.
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One solution: The hybrid solar-wind power plant.
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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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Those companies included Vivint in the home security space and SunPower, a solar panel maker and power plant developer.
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Then SunPower, the Silicon Valley solar panel manufacturer and power plant developer, said it would temporarily shut down half of its 12 photovoltaic production lines in the Philippines and lay off 900 workers.
The amount of solar electricity flowing from a power plant can fluctuate, sometimes significantly, depending on the weather and other conditions.
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Australian start-up Sunengy is partnering with Tata Power of India to develop a similar solar system for the reservoir of a hydro power plant in Mumbai.
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