The solar panels were the first obvious casualties - ripped from their mountings about 83-84km up.
Instead they make monthly payments over a 20-year contract, and SunRun owns and maintains the solar panels.
Most of the solar panels made today use silicon for the cells and glass for protection from breakage.
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In 2000, the solar industry accounted for 175 megawatts worth of energy represented by the solar panels it produced.
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They then pay either a fixed fee or for the amount of electricity produced by the solar panels each month.
For the Fetzer project, MMA Renewable Ventures paid to install the solar panels, and it will own them and maintain them.
The solar panels will generate power during the day, of course, while people are more likely to recharge their vehicles at night.
First problem: Most people have no way to store that electricity onsite, so if the grid goes dead, the solar panels do too.
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Our opportunity to extend the Holocene probably ended when the Reagan Administration symbolically pulled the solar panels off the White House in 1986.
QBotix is selling its systems in 300-kilowatt units that include a robot, a back-up robot, steel track and tracking stands for the solar panels.
Well, how about investment in clean energy so that the solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars are built here in the United States?
Overall, project developers completed 152 utility solar projects in 2012, and that represented 54%, or roughly 1.8 gigawatts, of the solar panels installed that year.
Also on tap are four space walks focusing on the station's two Solar Alpha Rotary Joints, which allow the solar panels to track the sun.
The electricity from the solar panels is used to propel the xenon atoms out the back of the spacecraft, nudging the spacecraft up to speed.
He said fitting the solar panels would mean the council was paid for the energy generated and would also be paid for unused energy exported to the grid.
Solar lease companies are counting on the solar panels and other equipment to work well and generate the amount of electricity promised by manufacturers over a long haul.
The wild card, though, are the solar panels, i.e. the assets in the asset-backed securities, as some solar panel makers go bankrupt and others teeter on the edge.
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Last year plans were submitted by solar farm developers, RE-Fin Solar and by Gedling Borough Council for a country park around the solar panels on the 14 hectare site.
Last summer, when temperatures climbed to the low 100s, they used a small air-conditioning unit but offset much of its energy use with the solar panels soaking up the Arizona sun.
To emphasize the importance of energy conservation, Infineon Raceway had the solar panels installed so that they would be visible to the majority of fans attending events at the facility.
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Many venture capitalists began backing CIGS solar companies in the mid-2000s, when the price of silicon, which is found in most of the solar panels today, reached several hundred dollars per kilogram.
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They uncovered "no smoking guns" responsible for the leak and consequently kept a sharp lookout for any icy flecks that might appear from the massive frame that holds the solar panels on the left side.
Homeowners typically sign a long-term contract of 15 to 20 years with the companies that pay for solar equipment and labor and make sure the solar panels work properly during the lifetime of the contract.
In the summer and on hot sunny days like Davis saw late this week, the solar panels will ideally generate even more electricity than is needed for the site and send some back to the grid.
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Equally some electric vehicle owners have been able to recharge their cars with solar panels, which means their emissions are practically zero (although the emissions involved with actually constructing the solar panels and the cars will mean that no cars are ever totally clean).
Mr. JOHN GRAHAM (Smithsonian Air and Space Museum): And we're on a very tight time line, and the reason for that is we need to get to the base of the next hill to the south, which has got north-facing slopes, so that we can get up and basically repeat what we did last winter on Husband Hill: turn the solar panels towards the sun and survive.
The wings are covered with a sheet of thin-film solar panels, which produce less power than the polycrystalline solar panels found on buildings, but are very lightweight.
Though the proposed solar panels were eliminated, the roof of the circular building cantilevers out to shade the east wall of glass.
Rive says Wal-Mart from day one will either be saving money with the new solar panels, or paying the same amount it had previously for electricity.
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