Solar power can be harnessed in several ways, including through photovoltaic and concentrated solar power systems.
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I see an opportunity — a chance at making solar power, and then harnessing that solar power to charge my phone.
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Solar power is free, environmentally friendly, and available anywhere (as long as it's not cloudy.) We've written before about solar power banks, but a new trend in the portable solar power game is solar panels built into backpacks.
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Specifically, it focuses on advances in five technologies: wind power, utility-scale solar power, distributed solar power, electric vehicles, and LEDs.
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Nor was solar power simply proliferating in the rich parts of the state; households of all income levels were adopting solar power.
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The solar power station plans being contemplated by China include the launch of small- to medium-sized solar power projects in the stratosphere to generate electricity between 250 and 210, followed by a space-based solar power station that can generate at least a megawatt of electricity in 2030, and a commercial-scale solar power plant in space by 2050.
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DTEK is a relative newcomer to solar power, having launched its first solar project - Tryfonivska Solar Power Plant with 10 MW capacity - last August.
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But the humble workhorse of solar power is the utility-scale solar power plant, usually defined as a solar array larger than 5 megawatts.
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In Germany, the eclipse caused solar power output to temporarily drop from 14 GW to 7 GW, compared with a 38 GW solar power capacity.
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A solar power plant floating 36,000 kilometers above our heads, for example, wouldn't be subject to the vagaries of generating solar power back on Earth.
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In Britain, where solar power capacity has soared in the last five years, the first solar power farm without a government subsidy began operations on Tuesday.
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Equinor acquired a minority stake in Scatec Solar, Norway's largest solar power company, in 13, after investing in joint solar power projects in Brazil and Argentina.
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"We usually monitor the two sources - grid and solar (power) - and we have noted that while the grid power shows fluctuation, the solar power is constant," Kiragu said.
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A Chinese solar power company has just completed the first phase of an ingenious PR stunt: building a 100MW solar power plant in the shape of a panda bear.
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China is the world's biggest solar power manufacturer and produced 72 percent of global solar power components in 2015, according to a research note by Everbright Securities last week.
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Solar power plants can consist in either photovoltaic (PV) panels or mirrors that focus sunlight on a fluid that boils and turns a turbine ("concentrating solar power," or CSP).
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Chile has more than half of the region's solar power capacity; solar power does not represent more than half of Chile's total installed capacity (that figure is 4 percent).
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Solar power: One of the biggest clean energy success stories, solar power has grown over 30% in the last year alone and photovoltaic systems prices have fallen 70% since 2010.
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And, indeed, this reduction in "balance of systems" costs — all the costs of solar power that aren't the panels themselves — is a big reason the price of solar power keeps declining.
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HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With more than 212,0003 solar power systems installed in homes in Zimbabwe, according to government figures, off-grid solar power is no longer a revelation for homeowners.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British solar power projects developer Lightsource Renewable Energy and Australian bank Macquarie will jointly fund the development of large solar power projects in India, the bank said on Monday.
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The system, from Sullivan Solar Power, will be the biggest in Major League Baseball and produce more than 12 million kilowatt hours of solar power over the next quarter century, the team said.
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Maybe solar power was just concentrating in large population centers?
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Petro would shift its emphasis toward wind and solar power.
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A section of the Nellis Solar Power Plant in Nevada.
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Wind and solar power are not like conventional power sources.
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There was also good news for solar power in Scotland.
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It is building the world's largest concentrated solar power plant.
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Solar power is bringing light to remote villages across India.
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"The future of solar power is incredibly bright," he said.
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Alternative technologies to solar photovoltaics include concentrated solar power systems.
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Nor is solar power the only infrastructure declining in cost.
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He wondered: What if solar power were stored another way?
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Across the developing world, solar power is hitting its stride.
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For a graphic Japan solar power generation capacity click reut.
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Microsoft recently announced the largest purchase of solar power ever.
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Hongqiao is also pursuing a solar power project in Shandong.
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Its farm runs off solar power provided by Tesla panels.
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Is Aramco working on renewables, like wind and solar power?
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In Florida, customers can only purchase solar power from utilities.
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Gross, of Heliogen, also acknowledges the limitations of solar power.
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Resilient Power installed solar power microgrids in four community centers.
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WUHAN, China — Russell Abney raised two children on solar power.
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Coal jobs down, wind and solar power jobs way up.
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The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is converting to solar power.
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The deal represents Microsoft's first solar power agreement in India.
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Ever wondered how to extract solar power from powdered doughnut?
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Investment in solar power is rising rapidly and even Saudi Arabia, the de-facto leader of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, is supporting the industry, creating the world's biggest solar power project.
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One theory is that headlines about the loss of solar power during the eclipse may have drummed up interest in the space — and maybe stirred long-held concerns about the reliability of solar power.
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When it comes to solar power, we've only scratched the surface.
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Gigafactory 2 is its solar power plant in Buffalo, New York.
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It has also invested in Norwegian solar power producer Scatec Solar .
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The world's biggest solar power project is coming to Saudi Arabia.
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In the meantime, prices of wind and solar power have tumbled.
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Now, coal is facing intensifying pressure from wind and solar power.
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The new plant will also draw solar power from photovoltaic cells.
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SolarCity has an agreement to supply solar power to Tesla facilities.
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But there's no sign of a solar power case for now.
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The company also develops and finances large-scale solar power plants.
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It shows historic and projected solar power capacity additions, by technology.
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"Irrespective of the weather, we rely on solar power," said Kiragu.
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Wind and solar power are wildly popular, across demographics and regions.
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Sprawling solar power stations use mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto water.
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But California already has more solar power than it can use.
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The synthesis between solar power and transport is becoming increasingly common.
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The Sunshine State seems like the perfect place for solar power.
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China already has the world's largest capacity of photovoltaic solar power.
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Wind and solar power are also emissions-free sources of energy.
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The company also develops and finances large-scale solar power plants.
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A similar situation is developing with solar power, the report says.
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Mr. Anderson, 27, is a solar power salesman in New Hampshire.
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Wind and solar power will replace coal at a Colorado furnace.
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The solar power company also saw revenue come in below estimates.
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Solar power and milk make for a good combination, she said.
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Although the home uses solar power, there is a backup generator.
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More than 90 percent said solar power should be a priority.
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It's easy to get ridiculously excited about solar power these days.
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French oil major Total bought a majority stake in the U.S. solar power panel producer and developer SunPower for $1.38 billion in 2011, and aims to have around 5,000 MW in solar power capacity by 2022.
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Innovations – including better transmission and storage for solar power, and new payment systems – also mean using more solar power in Africa could boost economies and create jobs for millions of people across the continent, he said.
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But to match official government targets of having solar power account for 73 percent of total renewable energy capacity by 2025, Taiwan would need nearly 20 times' current solar power capacity within nine years - about 20,000 megawatts.
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Still, investor confidence in the wind and solar power sector is also being held back by concerns over the future of the Investment Tax Credit for solar power and the Production Tax Credit for wind, analysts said.
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But to match official government targets of having solar power account for 73 percent of total renewable energy capacity by 2025, Taiwan would need nearly 20 times' current solar power capacity within nine years - about 93,000 megawatts.
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On its website, the Texas Solar Power Association states that Texas has the biggest solar resource in the U.S. It adds that solar power is both helping to diversify the Texan power supply and cut water consumption.
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Dozens of industries, from solar power to steel, are grappling with overcapacity.
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But there's another, little-discussed factor here: Residential solar power is contagious.
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Perhaps with added solar power, the fish could simply resurface to charge.
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The potential of solar power as a clean energy source is significant.
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The government is aiming for 100 gigawatts of solar power by 2022.
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It can be charged via solar power or from conventional power outlets.
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Go deeper: Solar power systems spike in homes, businesses and industrial plants
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The solar power company is down about 63 percent year to date.
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Word on the street is Tesla has some serious solar power skills.
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The company trains women to sell solar power solutions to rural communities.
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The growth in China's solar power sector, in particular, has been swift.
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Others have done life-cycle assessments for solar power in the past.
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Nathanson also maintains Solar Power for Artists, an archive of other projects.
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Concentrated solar power arrays and objects destined for space come to mind.
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MSNBC viewers and people who have installed solar power on their homes.
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Son pegs the lifespan of solar power plants at around 80 years.
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We had solar power, we had hydropower, we had geothermal, and biomass.
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Yet solar power produces less than 1% of the world's commercial energy.
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Collecting sufficient solar power wasn't the only problem Mars threw NASA's way.
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Like any new industry, solar power presents an opportunity for bad actors.
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It is a commendable approach to solar power in the Sunshine State.
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For electricity, the property relies on solar power and a backup generator.
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Solar power attracted $160.8 billion of investment, more than any other technology.
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The tent runs on solar power, and it has an outdoor shower.
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Concentrated solar power, or CSP, employed 23,000 in 2016, according to IRENA.
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Space-based solar power has two advantages over the ground-based kind.
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Tunisia is pursuing what could become the world's largest solar power plant.
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More than 13,000 people have benefited from solar power across the district.
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Solar power contributed about a third of its core earnings last year.
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Conversely, solar power produces no emissions harmful to human health or otherwise.
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Of course, the switch to solar power won't be easy—or cheap.
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Total solar power hit 164.7 GW, up 37 percent on the year.
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Solar power in New York City may finally be having its moment.
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Nevada is currently embroiled in an enormous controversy over rooftop solar power.
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The benefits of distributed solar power come mainly from what it avoids.
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"The specifics matter," said Jigar Shah, a solar power entrepreneur and author.
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Solar power systems survived Irma and kept working in Florida and Haiti.
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Wind and solar power are poised to become dominant sources of electricity.
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One big factor is the rapid growth of wind and solar power.
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As I've been saying forever, wind and solar power are incredibly popular.
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In India, rooftop solar power is in 90 percent of its buildings.
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The lake is now the home of Sungrow's floating solar power project.
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So you can certainly see why there's greater demand for solar power.
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About 450 megawatts is solar power and 90 megawatts is wind power.
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More than 80% support expanding the use of wind and solar power.
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Why would a steel mill install a solar power plant next door?
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LONDON — One major energy company has invested in a solar power developer.
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The company recently merged with a closely related solar power company, SolarCity.
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But for solar power, the fundamental economic outlook may conceivably be improving.
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So, in a sense, many electric trains already use some solar power.
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"It's like the devices you find in solar power converters," says Eaves.
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North Carolina could see a 90 percent drop in solar power supply.
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He cited the plummeting cost of initially expensive technologies like solar power.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - India lost its appeal at the World Trade Organization in a dispute over solar power on Friday, failing to overturn a U.S. complaint that New Delhi had discriminated against importers in the Indian solar power sector.
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UTILITY, NAVY JOIN FORCES ON SOLAR POWER: The Department of the Navy and a Mississippi utility on Wednesday announced plans to build a 4-megawatt solar power facility on the Naval Construction Battalion Center (NCBC) in Gulfport, Miss.
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The French government, which targets a fourfold increase in the country's solar power capacity by 2028, will initiate two tenders, one for bidders eager to build solar power projects on the ground and another for projects on building roofs.
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Wind turbines supplied 7.1 percent, while solar power accounted for just 0.01 percent.
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Now, granted, neighborhood effects are hardly the only reason solar power is spreading.
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It can also help store wind and solar power longer than batteries can.
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In stark contrast, renewable energy—solar power and wind farms especially—are booming.
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Originally an electric car company alone, Tesla now owns a solar power business.
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But if the state wants to keep ramping up solar power, that's untenable.
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The cost of providing utility-scale solar power has plummeted in recent years.
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It also is attempting to build a business in rooftop solar power systems.
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While the potential of solar power is clear, there are undoubted challenges too.
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A couple of those plants have integrated energy storage, offering nighttime solar power.
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He also offered the pros of acquiring the full-service solar power company.
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Elon Musk thinks utilities have nothing to fear from rooftop solar power systems.
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According to industry watchers, several macro trends are heightening expectations for solar power.
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"Solar power is now becoming increasingly central to U.K. power production," Whitehead added.
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Some are using solar power to run electrochemical reactions to break down waste.
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We all know the benefits of solar power: It's clean and it's cheap.
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Wind and solar power are also weather-dependent, adding to the shortage risk.
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Let's talk about the side effects of the creeping apotheosis of solar power.
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China connected a panda-shaped solar power plant to the grid last week.
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The state requires newly built homes to include solar power as a feature.
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Mr Modi believes solar power is the "ultimate solution to India's energy problem".
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Hongqiao is also working on a solar power project in Shandong, he said.
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Solar power alone could produce twice as much electricity as we currently produce.
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The French oil company Total is making a major effort in solar power.
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The two primary renewables for electricity generation are wind turbines and solar power.
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A built-in solar power supply keeps the watch charged at all times.
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He was elected county commissioner, a position he used to champion solar power.
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SpaceX bought some of SolarCity's debt before Tesla purchased the solar power company.
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But the increases in wind and solar power both came from low bases.
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"Topaz wasn't labeled, but it's a commercial-scale solar power project," he said.
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The cubesats run on solar power, and their propellant is fire extinguisher fluid.
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Now the tariffs have added another bump in the road for solar power.
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The worms stay together to maximize their algae's ability to harness solar power.
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Go deeper, via Engadget: Tesla's relaunched solar power efforts include $50 panel rentals
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Solar power is cheaper than coal and rapidly catching up to natural gas.
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Go deeper: American farmers are pivoting to solar power to pay the bills
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M-Pesa makes it possible to sell a day's worth of solar power.
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For one thing, wind and solar power have been rapidly winning market acceptance.
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That's equivalent to about 1,000 major solar power plants, according to experts' estimates.
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Falling prices for those panels has enhanced the affordability of solar power worldwide.
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The United States won a case against a solar-power program in India.
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It argues that the proposed move would hamper solar power investment in Europe.
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Solar power is becoming an increasingly important part of the planet's energy mix.
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Surely any use of solar power is more economical than throwing it away.
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Maybe perovskites will usher in an era of breathtakingly low-cost solar power.
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GENEVA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - India lost its appeal at the World Trade Organization in a dispute over solar power on Friday, failing to overturn a U.S. complaint that New Delhi had discriminated against importers in the Indian solar power sector.
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Solar power In many ways, schools are a natural fit for solar power: They tend to require electricity only during the day, when the sun is shining, and they often have ample space on their roofs and grounds for solar panels.
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Solar power has the potential to become one of Africa's top energy sources, according to the International Energy Agency, but more infrastructure needs to be installed -- of all solar power in use globally, less than 2500% currently comes from the continent.
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And China actually leads the world in wind and solar power, according CSIS' Finamore.
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You can't use solar power, since the machine surrounds the Sun at Neptune's distance.
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Tommie is a solar power engineer who has created a self-cooling straw hat.
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Scatec Solar generates electricity from 357 megawatts of solar power plants across the world.
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In 2014, the year Modi took office, India had 3 gigawatts of solar power.
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Solar power is just now becoming cheaper than electricity production based on fossil fuels.
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That enabled a fine-grain analysis of residential solar power at a neighborhood level.
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The cost of wind and solar power has plummeted and its use is spreading.
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What if your entire roof was made up entirely of dedicated solar power cells?
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Yesterday, Morocco switched on the first section of its new Ouarzazate solar power plant.
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Calling the ongoing plunge in solar-power prices "remarkable" would be far too conservative.
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Most of the rest of the funds will go on solar power and distribution.
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Domestic customers of the new solar power supply are also pleased with the change.
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Nyakalege, for instance, now uses solar power to operate his three milling machines simultaneously.
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The fate of the world depends on driving down the cost of solar power.
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That follows executive changes and a skidding stock price at the solar power company.
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Today, she helps unemployed oil workers find jobs in the burgeoning solar power industry.
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Solar power in particular jumped 29.6 percent, while wind power grew by 15.6 percent.
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The solar power station is among Apple's first major clean energy developments in China.
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When people think of solar power, they tend to think of panels on rooftops.
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So the Green New Deal includes a massive investment in solar power, for example.
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Given the country's climate though, most of the focus is on generating solar power.
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That means there will be way less solar power to keep the spacecraft working.
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Beyond Jupiter The problem is that solar power doesn't work so well past Jupiter.
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This translates into a 7.6-gigawatt reduction in installed solar power plants through 2022.
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Converting wind and solar power into electricity is, in some ways, the easy part.
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This means an immediate and dramatic shift to zero-emission wind and solar power.
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It runs on solar power and has previously been celebrated for its sustainability initiatives.
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The resort runs on solar power and is only open from May to December.
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Wind and solar power only accounted for 3.6 percentage points of total energy production.
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The house has its own water source as well as a solar power system.
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What's more, solar power attracted $160.8 billion of investment, more than any other technology.
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But wind and solar power companies have criticized it as unrealistic and politically divisive.
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It's not the first device to pull water from thin air using solar power.
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The two are also collaborating on an enormous solar power project for the country.
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The organization also works to train local people to install and maintain solar power.
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Mr. Poulsen also envisions building up other businesses like solar power and energy storage.
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They harnessed the sun, briefly making Telangana a leading solar power producer in India.
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Wind- and solar-power plants produce RECs for each unit of electricity they generate.
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It based that prediction on the remarkable drop in the cost of solar power.
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Watergen, which also generates water from the air around us, doesn't use solar power.
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Pakistan wants you to know that its parliament building runs entirely on solar power.
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Cheaper natural gas and renewable sources like wind and solar power have replaced it.
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Isaac Asimov first floated the idea for space-based solar power in the 1940s.
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SOLAR POWER is all very well, but it is available only during daylight hours.
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India, for instance, is keen on using solar power to electrify its rail system.
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Rural electric companies in Arizona are increasingly turning to solar power, Arizona Central reports.
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The company said it has installed almost 2 gigawatts of solar power capacity globally.
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Commercial aviation, for instance, won't be converted to running on solar power anytime soon.
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Wilson also predicted investment in alternative energy sources, including nuclear power and solar power.
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Imposing restrictions could make solar products more expensive, slowing the adoption of solar power.
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The world receives 14,000 times as much solar power each day as it needs.
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As of 2016, wind and solar power — VRE — provide 63 percent of US electricity.
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BEIJING, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Chinese solar power developers have made their lowest bids so far in a tender to build a one gigawatt solar power base in Inner Mongolia, aiming to accelerate a transition to renewals, China Business News said on Friday.
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"I'm expecting solar power will be a main energy source for many communities in the future, so joining a community solar group is my vote for that," said Mr. Weiss, whose solar power comes from an array atop a building in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
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Workers who install solar power projects, utilities who purchase the power and major commercial users of solar power, like retailers, could all be damaged by such restrictions, said Frank Maisano, a spokesman for the Energy Trade Action Coalition, which represents those groups.
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Earlier this year China announced its intention to become the first country to build a solar power station in space, and for more than a decade Japan has considered the development of a space solar power station to be a national priority.
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Nope: In fact, solar power was growing more rapidly in small and medium population areas.
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Of all the energy the US uses, how much comes from wind and solar power?
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So lots of folks are advocating solar power systems as a jump into the future.
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Renewable energy like wind and solar power will also play a part in coal's decline.
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And the state also provides incentives to residents to use wind energy or solar power.
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It can be charged via solar power, from conventional power outlets or other electric cars.
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And you're going to tell me you can't double how much solar power you produce?
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Solar power attracted 48 percent of the total global investment in clean energy last year.
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Industry executives said subsidies for solar power plants could also be cut and eliminated soon.
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Solar power is increasingly competitive with gas and coal as a source of cheap power.
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SunEdison, once a renewable energy power player, makes solar power plants and wind energy plants.
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Employees are offered subsidies for using bicycles, electric vehicles and solar power at their homes.
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California's Squaw Valley is working with Tesla to install power banks to store solar power.
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Can be harnessed in several ways, including through photovoltaic and concentrated solar power systems (CSP).
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Even oil companies are investing in wind and solar power as it has become cheaper.
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The recent arrival of solar power, however, is already improving the lives, health experts say.
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Mr Trump has no love for solar power, but does like appeals from ailing manufacturers.
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Such measures include widespread adoption of renewable energies such as solar power, the study said.
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Why pack a proof-of-concept solar power system onto an active solar system explorer?
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The Tesla Motors CEO this week announced plans to purchase solar power-provider Solar City.
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Unlike wind and solar power, these can be used for "baseload" power that operates constantly.
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Tesla first announced it was interested in acquiring the solar power company back in June.
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Will the Post editorialize in favor of an environmental tax on wind and solar power?
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So they invested in hydro power, solar power, and also the conventional gas fire power.
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The Noor 3 solar power plant — one of the world's biggest — near Ouarzazate, southern Morocco.
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This month, Morocco switched on what will be the world's largest concentrated solar power plant.
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The desert sun will be harnessed for solar power to heat and electrify the site.
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Utilities also get tax credits for producing wind power and for installing solar power equipment.
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In 2016, data center firm Switch commenced construction of two solar power plants in Nevada.
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Elon Musk is working to spearhead the global transition to electric vehicles and solar power.
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Alternatives, like wind and solar power, have become more feasible, and funding has been diverted.
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Utilities also get tax credits for producing wind power and for installing solar power equipment.
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Apple is partnering with its Chinese suppliers to help boost the deployment of solar power.
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Pros: Solar power, water resistant, classic style, various color schemes availableCons: Large body, quirky styling
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Space-based solar power satellites were first proposed by Peter Glaser in the late 1960s.
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Department store Kohl's is not only turning to solar power to reduce its environmental impact.
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New wind and solar power development in California's desert has slowed, the Desert Sun reports.
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Clinton has said the United States needs to invest in clean energy, primarily solar power.
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This followed incentives in place since 2006 that encouraged homeowners to use solar power panels.
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AROUND THE WEB: The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum has converted to ... solar power, WYMT reports.
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Solar power output totaled 39 TWh in 2015, up from 23 TWh the year before.
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There's basically nothing out here in the desert save for a nearby solar power plant.
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Tesla's factory in Buffalo, New York, which makes solar power products, will also suspend production.
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An earlier version of this article misstated a detail about solar power in Latin America.
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Investment in renewables like solar power and improving energy efficiency would increase Puerto Rico's resiliency.
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But solar power alone will not get Orlando to 1003 percent clean energy, experts say.
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Wind and solar power generation rose by by 270 terrawatt hours, or 15%, last year.
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On sunny days, surplus solar power will pump river water up to a holding tank.
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Major government-led solar power projects have so far failed due to lack of funding.
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More eclipse coverage in The Times:• The eclipse is testing the future of solar power.
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"It's easy to forget that Tesla sells batteries and solar power products," he wrote Wednesday.
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Solar power is making barely more than 1 percent, and geothermal lags even further behind.
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Solar power is clean, healthy and bright, and once you have the equipment, it's free.
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For example, EERE's Sunshot program was launched to bring down the price of solar power.
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Here's my point: could this be a real rival to solar power in the future?
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The company last week raised 15 million reais ($3.48 million) to finance solar power projects.
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The company last week raised 15 million reais ($3.48 million) to finance solar power projects.
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A school superintendent said that his underfunded district needed solar power to reduce energy costs.
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Alternative energy investments like wind and solar power have not performed well in recent years.
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But in five years, he'll own it outright and his solar power will be free.
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The growth of wind and solar power is also creating new opportunities for transmission companies.
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SunPower is both a manufacturer of solar panels and an installer of solar power systems.
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Last year, South Korean solar power equipment manufacturers including Hanwha Q CELLS Co Ltd HQCL.
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The widespread view that solar power is a hopelessly subsidized business is quickly growing outdated.
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Wind and solar power are now on average the least expensive ways of generating electricity.
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Adding solar power reduces the need to add costly generation capacity to meet peak demand.
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Njoroge, of the energy ministry, sees much more use of solar power ahead for Kenya.
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There are also alternative energy sources — nuclear, solar, power, hydro, and so on — that work.
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To date, electricity storage has lagged far behind advances in solar power, but as batteries become cheaper and more powerful, they will increasingly store the uneven output of wind and solar power, contributing to the kind of flexibility that a weather-dependent source will require.
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Instead, consider the implications of the intermittent nature of wind and solar power: Even in Puerto Rico, renewable electricity is unreliable in the fundamental sense that wind flows and sunlight cannot predicted in ways that allow wind and solar power to be scheduled ("dispatched").
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Amendment 21 contains language that sounds supportive of solar power but could lead to Florida's power utilities levying fees on solar users, even when they aren't pulling power off the grid, and prevent them from earning credit for feeding unused solar power back onto it.
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Amendment 1 contains language that sounds supportive of solar power but could lead to Florida's power utilities levying fees on solar users, even when they aren't pulling power off the grid, and prevent them from earning credit for feeding unused solar power back onto it.
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Focused on wind and solar power, LCE has developed projects in Texas, California and New Jersey.
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In the spot market prices for next-day delivery fell on abundant wind and solar power.
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The EU needs more wind and solar power to meet its renewables targets, the auditors said.
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Solar power is integral to the Better Shelter's design, with a panel installed in its roof.
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Some of the world's top oil exporters want to be major players in solar power, too.
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What to watch: China did this with solar power by driving down costs and prices, too.
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The Statkraft Group produces hydropower, wind power, solar power, gas-fired power and supplies district heating.
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The bike lanes and the buildings - including 2,500 housing units - will run partially on solar power.
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Other routes to a cleaner grid are possible, such as distributed solar power and battery storage.
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Solar power is closing in on gas and coal as an attractively cheap source of power.
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The two firms are already working together to develop solar power plants in Brazil and Argentina.
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Real-time data on solar power generation, battery power flow, and household energy consumption are displayed.
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Overall, in this case at least, the researchers concluded that solar power had few measurable effects.
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But with first launch happening, fingers crossed, around 2021, the tug will run on solar power.
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He said solar power generation capacity of 20 GW will be installed by 2030 for railways.
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That's perfect for the mission, which relies on solar power, according to The New York Times.
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The recent history of solar power has seen it routinely surpass the estimates of such experts.
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On the face of it, then, perovskites should already be transforming the business of solar power.
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Suburbs will have enough space to generate their own solar power or grow their own food.
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Hard-hitting standards can enhance energy efficiency and bring greater reliance on wind and solar power.
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A Russian luxury brand has turned the iPhone X into solar-power marvel – for a price.
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Juno's solar power arrays are so big, they were nearly too heavy to launch in 2011.
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Though solar power is cheaper and becoming increasingly popular, the industry is facing a few obstacles.
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Chandy, fighting allegations that his office was involved in a solar-power scam, denies any wrongdoing.
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Tesla's solar power system generally costs between $10,000 and $25,000, with batteries costing an extra $7,000.
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The EIA predicts solar power will have the largest capacity increase of any fuel this year.
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On Monday, the company issued a request for proposals to add 200 MW of solar power.
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It said 476,000 people were now employed in wind and solar power in the United States.
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His expertise ranges from rocket science, engineering, physics and artificial intelligence to solar power and energy.
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SunEdison, a solar power company, climbed 2.64 percent to $2.72 at the close in New York.
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In several islands of the Grenadines, a pilot seawater desalination project using solar power is underway.
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The thing about solar power is you know exactly how much it's going to cost, forever.
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On top of all of this, China is heavily investing in wind and solar power projects.
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Alternative-energy sources like wind and solar power are rapidly maturing and coming down in price.
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That would stimulate investments in wind and solar power and the jobs that come with it.
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Its government is targeting a 20100-fold increase in solar-power capacity by 2022, to 100GW.
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I'd come to Daban to learn about the boom in solar power in sub-Saharan Africa.
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It means robust investments to deploy existing technologies and solutions for harnessing wind and solar power.
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Some jeered when Elon Musk proposed creating a solar power juggernaut by having Tesla buy SolarCity.
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More than 10,000 New York City residents are using solar power to reduce their electric bills.
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His most recent venture is Akon Lighting Africa which is providing solar power to African countries.
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But Strickland says wind and solar power are creating new jobs and saving money for consumers.
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Space solar power would supplant fossil fuels without hobbling modern, technological civilization at the same time.
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It will be helping the companies navigate the evolving legislative and regulatory landscape around solar power.
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The deal allows the electric car giant to integrate solar power generation into its business model.
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Storing solar power through the night remains a hurdle too, though battery technology is improving rapidly.
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Whether you install solar power or move oil around, you're probably nervous about Trump's trade agenda.
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The buildup of wind and solar power further decreased overall electricity prices in relation to coal.
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Then the price of oil collapsed and investors drove down the stocks of solar power companies.
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But a state amendment would have restricted residents' access to solar power if passed this November.
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Others are worried about what solar power means for their traditional fossil fuel-driven electricity industries.
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After the storm, some homeowners and businesses began to invest in rooftop solar power and batteries.
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Note that this is very different from solar power, which converts energy from sunlight into electricity.
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Burnt Ramen's main problem is they're not on the electrical grid—they ran on solar power.
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Specifically, wind and solar power reduce pollution, which reduces sickness, missed work days, and early deaths.
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The solar power industry can now claim to employ more people than coal mining in America.
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Concentrating solar power technologies, which use the sun's heat to generate power, will receive $24 million.
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If they support solar power at all, their utilities tend to want to produce it themselves.
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While solar power has gained traction, most of the clean-tech funds were viewed as failures.
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So I asked Mr. Garcetti how he saw residential solar power fitting into his New Deal.
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It has state-of-the-art amenities like Wi-Fi, onboard water filtration and solar power.
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Solar power still trails behind, contributing less than 2 percent to the U.S. commercial electricity grid.
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Button told police that he had solar power to run his TV, radio, fans and lights.
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Here, Sustainable Energy looks at five interesting ways solar power is being used around the world.
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Solar power has increasingly become a driver in the growth of the state's alternative energy production.
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The sector added 225 gigawatts of photovoltaic capacity, the most common type of solar power technology.
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With ample assistance, China's solar-power production capacity expanded more than tenfold from 24 to 20183.
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Worldwide, the solar power capacity is at 305 gigawatts, up from about 50 gigawatts in 2010.
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Power lines and electrical equipment might not be equipped to handle the addition of solar power.
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John Mankins, a former NASA physicist, has long been an advocate of space-based solar power.
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It lets companies that build solar power systems get credits for 30 percent of their investments.
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Homes would need to have on-site batteries to draw stored solar power during a blackout.
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This is not to say that Google computers will consume nothing but wind and solar power.
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A solar power system was installed at the home of the San Francisco Giants in 2007.
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Now Toyota is trying to take it a step further in their new solar power testing.
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Alternative-energy sources like wind and solar power are rapidly maturing and coming down in price.
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EGPE was awarded seven solar power projects last July after the Spanish government's third renewables auction.
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Like oil before it, solar power may soon reach the point where federal subsidies are unnecessary.
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It may seem counterintuitive, but water plays a crucial role in the production of solar power.
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Meanwhile, the terrain around the craters is bathed in near constant sunlight, ideal for solar power.
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There were better investment prospects for renewable energies such as solar power than coal, she added.
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Instead, they've focused on decarbonizing the electricity sector through actions like promoting wind and solar power.
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Several contracts PG&E has signed with solar power suppliers might be vulnerable to such revisions.
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The thing about solar power is you can't schedule it like you can a power plant.
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If someone asked Cramer what industry President Barack Obama favored the most, he would say solar power.
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TOMS will donate the equivalent of one year's worth of solar power for each watch band sold.
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The Opportunity rover, which is dependent upon solar power, is (fingers crossed) only temporarily out of commission.
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Softbank and Saudi Arabia have already agreed to create the world's biggest solar power project in Saudi.
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The experience of people like Santiago could drive more individuals and businesses to invest in solar power.
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Ellison plans to use to land to test environmentally friendly practices like solar power and electric vehicles.
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"Until now, no one has ever attempted to fly around the world on solar power," Piccard said.
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To this end, authorities want to install 600 MW of solar power over the next few years.
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The Sure Chill refrigerator uses hydro and solar power to keep vaccines cold for days without energy.
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Using land to generate solar power is about eight times more efficient than biofuel production, he noted.
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In places where biomass isn't readily available, the WEDEW can be converted to run on solar power.
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For years, the batteries that power our phones, laptops and solar-power storage have been made overseas.
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It's created an opportunity for renewables in general, and a favorable environment for solar power in particular.
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A new report has placed a leading retailer at the top of U.S. businesses embracing solar power.
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Mobile phones, rooftop solar power and village Wi-Fi networks are helping to compensate for shoddy infrastructure.
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Morocco's Ouarzazate solar power plant will provide about 580 MW of power once it's complete in 2020.
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Japan is now the third-biggest solar power user, according to the renewable energy policy network Ren21.
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The tremendous heat created by the concentrated solar power produces steam that drives turbines to produce electricity.
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In the past few years, though, governments and aid agencies have put more faith in solar power.
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More than 77.93 percent of solar power in Gansu and neighbouring Xinjiang failed to reach the grid.
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India's clean energy dream can only be realized by a combination of solar power and energy storage.
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In short, Musk wants to make solar power as cool as Tesla has made the electric car.
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The idea was to promote domestic manufacturing, but some fear it will make solar power more expensive.
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This time, the aim is primarily to beam a huge amount of solar power down to earth.
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He says that with current technology, solar power and batteries are insufficient to satisfy Africa's energy needs.
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"I think one day we will see every building has a rooftop solar power system," Barua said.
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But, for solar power at least, could bypassing clouds hold the key to our clean energy future?
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The solar power is stored in batteries, ensuring a continuous supply at night and on cloudy days.
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SoftBank and Saudi Arabia said in March they would build the world's biggest solar power generation project.
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So for the moment, the robot's engineers are powering RoboBee X-Wing's components by solar power directly.
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Solar power rose from essentially zero, back then, to today's irrelevant 2202 percent share of U.S. energy.
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Solar power supply will decrease by 320 MW to just under 1 GW during the same period.
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Avantagenera's clean-energy assets include wind and solar power plants in countries such as Spain and Brazil.
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A NASA spokeswoman said it is not currently studying space-based solar power for use on Earth.
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Werner is bullish on solar power, but he added: "It's just not making solar cells in America."
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Japan's solar power capacity has soared to more than 40,000 gigawatt-hours from virtually zero before 2012.
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Solar power garnered $161 billion in new investment in 2015, more than natural gas and coal combined.
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The Japanese firm was also exploring possibilities of investing in solar power plants in Tanzania, it added.
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Solar power is still a fairly tiny portion of US electricity, but it is growing incredibly fast.
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A fully solar power ecosystem driven in-part by SolarCity will help Musk and Co. get there.
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The Diamond Foundry was started last year by Martin Roscheisen, founder of the solar power company Nanosolar.
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Federal regulators made final a rule Thursday overhauling how wind and solar power companies lease public land.
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Here are drone shots of volcanoes, solar power farms, extreme sports, nature, destruction, and so much more.
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Home battery systems allow customers to store solar power generated during the day for use after sunset.
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In other words, the deal makes sense because people who buy Tesla's cars also want solar power.
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American space policy should be geared toward heading off Chinese supremacy in commercial space, especially solar power.
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A facility run by the energy company Heliogen uses mirrors to produce concentrated, high-heat solar power.
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But one man beat the power outages and his troublesome gas generator by switching to solar power.
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It will rely on solar power as well as geothermal power for heating and cooling, Ford said.
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In 2016, more solar power was brought online in the US than any other source of electricity.
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It's equipped with solar power, fishing rods and rifles, and enough dried provisions to last a year.
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But the calculus is rapidly shifting as the prices of wind and solar power continue to fall.
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Much like existing credits for wind and solar power, these incentives would phase out starting in 2020.
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For the utilities, which are facing flat or declining consumption, residential solar power threatens the bottom line.
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Of the 10 states with the most residential solar power, eight voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Green bonds finance environmental projects like wind and solar power, mass transit and upgrades in energy efficiency.
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He pays about 20,000 naira ($55) each month for solar power — about what he paid for gasoline.
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The city's 280,000 residents contribute an additional 10 megawatts of solar power from equipment on their rooftops.
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SunPower is the nation's No. 2 commercial solar-power company, employing thousands of workers directly and indirectly.
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Deals • Saudi Arabia has reportedly halted work on a $200 billion solar power joint venture with SoftBank.
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Unlike today's dominant sources of electricity, wind and solar power are essentially free once equipment is installed.
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IEA's new report sees rapid growth of solar power systems located at homes, businesses and industrial plants.
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Much of the impressive solar power growth in 2017 was led by large-scale and utility installations.
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Companies like Tesla and Sunrun which sell solar power and energy storage solutions are pushing distributed generation.
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Using solar power to run the kilns only accounts for about 40 percent of cement's carbon footprint.
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But the solar power industry blasted the plan, saying it puts unnecessary limits on the industry's potential.
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Climate Fwd: Also this week, bringing solar power to Navajo homes Welcome to the Climate Fwd: newsletter.
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Mondelez (MDLZ) recently agreed to buy enough solar power to produce 10 billion Oreo cookies per year.
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Many of the solar panels in America's backyards and solar power plants are made by Chinese companies.
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Plus: the dramatic drop in the cost of producing carbon-free energy like wind and solar power.
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Conergy builds, operates and manages solar power plants in Japan, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar and Germany.
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And yet shares of the carmaker Tesla, which has absorbed solar power company SolarCity, are going up.
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The weather also raised the output from solar power and increased demand for electricity from air conditioners.
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One of the biggest problems plaguing the widespread adoption of solar power is, quite simply, rainy weather.
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Existing coal plants, for instance, can't easily ramp down in the afternoon when solar power ramps up.
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Anker 21 Watt PowerPort Solar Charger, $59.99, available at Amazon Dizaul 5000mAh Portable Solar Power Bank, $14.99
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In recent years, we've seen Iowa, for example, take significant steps toward more utility-scale solar power.
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"These are the lowest solar power tariffs seen to date in Africa, and among the lowest prices for solar power anywhere in the world - a game changer for Zambia and other countries in the region facing electricity shortages," IFC Chief Executive Officer Philippe Le Houérou said in a statement.
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If Bezos spent just 1 percent of the Earth Fund to develop space-based solar power, it would effectively double the available funding in the US. If he wanted to sweeten the deal, he could offer solar power satellites a lift to orbit on one of his rockets.
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SolarCity-Tesla is now running almost an entire island on solar power SolarCity-Tesla is now running almost an entire island on solar power Elon Musk has hyped his acquisition of SolarCity by Tesla as an opportunity to create the world's most advanced and audacious clean energy company.
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And if so, what would a Tesla-backed solar power project on the still-recovering island look like.
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"It's not just another solar power plant," Evhen Variagin, the chief executive of Solar Chernobyl LLC, told reporters.
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Despite Trump's incentives, U.S. utilities are shutting coal-fired plants and shifting to gas, wind and solar power.
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Putting an exact figure on the nation's total solar power output, however, is proving to be notoriously difficult.
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Solar power potential is measured by Global Horizontal Irradiation (GHI), a measurement of the intensity of the sun.
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India is targeting a 30-fold increase in solar power generation capacity to 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2022.
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In some instances, villages in India have avoided coal-powered electricity altogether, and "leapfrogged" straight to solar power.
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On July 10th Hawaiian Electric filed an ambitious proposal to solicit bids for new wind and solar power.
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Middle East and North African countries, blessed by ample sunlight and open space, are increasingly adopting solar power.
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Some of these companies could become global competitors in the fast-growing market for large solar power plants.
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In many countries, Birol said solar power was on track to become the cheapest source of new electricity.
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Solar power in one scenario was seen rising to 2 GW from 1.3 GW in the same period.
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Excess production in solar power forced producers to reduce costs and compete, subsidy-free, with conventional energy sources.
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Businessmen sat at his table discussing solar power stations, rocketing land prices and plans for a Kempinski hotel.
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Gevinski has four to six rooms out of 19 operating, and only because they're running on solar power.
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Despite some flops (most famously the panel manufacturer Solyndra), the program helped launch utility-scale solar power generation.
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Providing them with off-grid solar power is something almost all development experts agree is A Good Thing.
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The US imports most of its solar panels from China, which leads the world in solar power production.
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With Sun Exchange, schools and other solar power users pay as they go for the energy they use.
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For investors in solar power stocks and ETFs so far this year, it's been more like solar profits.
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Mapdwell has already demonstrated that it is an effective tool in convincing people to transition to solar power.
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SoftBank's technology fund signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia to expand solar power in the kingdom.
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Also featured: the pros and cons of solar power -- and how it's being utilized in part of Hawaii.
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"The abundance of the solar resource in Eastern Uganda makes it perfect for solar power generation," he says.
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Solar power could be an answer to Pakistan's power shortages, but its use still remains in nascent stages.
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By contrast, Hillary Clinton wants to introduce more ambitious plans for solar power than any president before her.
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Solar power and biogas will also be promoted over fossil fuels and imams will teach better environmental awareness.
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Green-minded customers must ensure that their purchases actually add new wind and solar power to the grid.
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It's already one of the biggest solar power grids in the world, capable of being seen from space.
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Solar power accounted for $148 billion, up 12 percent partly driven by an ongoing solar boom in Japan.
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Statoil also entered the first project to build a 162 megawatt solar power plant in Argentina last year.
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As Obama noted, there are now more jobs in solar power in the United States than in coal.
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The city of Georgetown, Texas, is already powered by 100 percent renewable energy from wind and solar power.
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It acquired SolarCity last year, another company founded by Musk, which focused on solar power and energy storage.
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In 2010, the Obama administration started talking about ways to make solar power competitive with traditional electricity generation.
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Yet this week two of the rich world's most prominent solar-power developers have been flirting with disaster.
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Sure, we've got solar power, but that, too, is subject to factors we can't control, like cloudy days.
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There is strong, bipartisan support for wind and solar power, which provides people with greater flexibility and independence.
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Coal- and gas-fired power plants are essential to back up intermittent supply from wind and solar power.
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Tesla Motors, an electric-car-maker, made a $2.8 billion bid to buy SolarCity, a solar-power firm.
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Solar power is the fastest-growing source of new energy worldwide, and the trend is expected to continue.
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Goal Zero is best known for providing solar power for outdoor photographers, van dwellers, and serious Everest expeditions.
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Those actions include big systems changes like transitioning to cleaner sources of energy including wind and solar power.
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He also has a variety of other projects, including space transport, solar power and high-speed tunnel travel.
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Amplats said it was also considering building a 100 megawatt solar power plant at the group's Mogalakwena mine.
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It has also criticized wind and solar power, both expanding rapidly, as being too heavily dependent on weather.
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How quickly will cheaper solar power begin to squeeze down overseas demand for American coal and natural gas?
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To make solar power cheaper and increase domestic demand, China has pushed use of the best available equipment.
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The Department of Energy says our solar power industry will never become competitive until "soft costs" come down.
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There are also plans to use parts of the area to store nuclear waste and for solar power.
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If space-based solar power becomes feasible, some of it at least must be made by American companies.
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Since 2011, EDM has established five hybrid solar power plants in rural areas to supply local mini-grids.
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Only affirmative government intervention in the electricity marketplace could undermine the continuing competitiveness of wind and solar power.
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The Department of Energy is expanding its training program for veterans looking to enter the solar power industry.
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Proponents say such plants can play a key role in smoothing out unpredictable wind and solar power generation.
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Installed floating solar power capacity increased from 230 megawatts in 2240 to more than 2000 gigawatt last year.
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Researchers at the University of Manchester have designed flags that can produce energy via wind and solar power.
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SunPower makes solar panels and builds everything from residential rooftops installations to large, utility-scale solar power systems.
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He said future energy jobs would be in renewables, such as wind or solar power, rather than coal.
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Solar power could become cost-competitive with gas and coal, especially if the costs of carbon were internalised.
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The price of oil collapsed also, and with that, investors drove down the stocks of solar power companies.
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The project would finance rooftop solar power subprojects equivalent to 50 megawatts of additional capacity, the ADB added.
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And there's always the dream of creating the fuel – methane and oxygen – using solar power and atmospheric gases.
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Sivaram cautions against overemphasis on the role battery technology can play in decarbonizing transportation and storing solar power.
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Similarly, a smarter power grid could make it possible to deploy much more intermittent wind and solar power.
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The IEA is infamous for drastically, comically underestimating how fast solar power capacity will grow around the world.
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BP recently said it would pay $200 million for a stake in a solar-power developer called Lightsource.
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Under a policy approved in May, all new-home construction in California must include solar power by Jan.
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But I have done my best to fight for things I believe in, like solar power and conservation.
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These projects would add 20% to the country's solar power installed capacity, the ministry said in a statement.
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And rooftops will be covered in photo-voltaic panels to generate solar power and hydrogen fuel cell power.
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A few years later he cofounded electric-car maker, Tesla, and then SolarCity, a solar power systems provider.
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While greater investment in wind and solar power might appear to be the answer, renewables haven't met expectations.
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There is not enough land for wind turbines onshore, and the area is not ideal for solar power.
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Solar power provides almost 2000 percent of the state's electricity, and the industry employs more than 244,20203 workers.
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Your state vaulted nine spots and cracked into the top 20 markets for solar power capacity in 203.
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For the sake of reliability, savings, clean air and a little more freedom, let's look to solar power.
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In India, the cost of solar power has plunged below that of a new coal-fired power plant.
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"Solar power is limited, wind unstable, hydropower over-exploited, and uranium ore will eventually be depleted," Liu said.
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It will run on 100% renewable energy, including from solar power generated on site, according to the company.
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Wind and solar power aren't flexible because they're only available when the wind blows and the sun shines.
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The Trump administration has criticized wind and solar power, both expanding rapidly, as being too dependent on weather.
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The policy could put Oman in the forefront of Middle East nations promoting widespread use of solar power.
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Earlier this year, Sweden's center-left government introduced an energy tax on solar power production above 255 kilowatt.
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But solar power didn't really advance into a real industry until a decade ago, when China stepped in.
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AfDB said the funds would be used to increase investment in renewable energy projects like solar power plants.
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Florida has almost 2 GW of solar power, according to the latest figures, enough to power 227,340 homes.
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First Solar pinned the revenue whiff on lower-than-anticipated sales of its solar power systems and modules.
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Britain and Germany, for example, have built large capacities in clean-energy sources like wind and solar power.
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Solar power, despite its weather-related challenges, is quickly becoming one of the fastest-growing energy sources worldwide.
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But just like solar power itself, it'll likely be a slow and steady race to the finish line.
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The expansion has made San Diego the city with the most installed solar power nationwide, the group said.
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"I was building a thriving business that helped make our state No. 2 in solar power," he said.
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Getting wind and solar power to the population centers where it's needed involves building long-distance power lines.
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This vote also comes on the heels of a failed solar power state ballot amendment voted down in the 2016 general election in November, which environmentalists said would put control of solar power leasing options entirely in the hands of Florida's power companies (potentially making it more expensive to install).
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A Vertical Harvest garden costs just under $100,000, more if a buyer wants add-ons like solar power ability.
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A 2014 paper in the Journal of Economic Geography looked at the growth of residential solar power across Connecticut.
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But as solar power grows, word of mouth spreads, and referrals increase, those sign-up costs should come down.
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Notwithstanding the US government's recent announcement of a 30 percent tariff on imported photovoltaic cells, solar power is growing.
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In February this year he installed a 300-watt solar power generating system on the roof of his house.
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Florida's utilities are grudgingly building some big solar power plants, but they want nothing to do with distributed energy.
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But it has also invested heavily in renewables, and the cost of solar power is now cheaper than ever.
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But for a few critical hours on August 21st, the Moon is going to spoil the solar power show.
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Within the United States, California is No. 1 (by far) in solar power and No. 20063 in wind power.
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Solar power, which accounted for 7 percent of total production last year against wind's 18.4 percent, has become inexpensive.
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Last week, Mondelez (MDLZ) announced plans to buy enough solar power to produce 10 billion Oreo cookies per year.
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This radioactive land can't be used for real estate or farming, so a solar power plant makes perfect sense.
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Solar power and a local grid system will keep the lights on even if the entire region looses power.
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At the same time, some farms can't afford much storage, so their solar power ends at sundown, Wrege said.
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One such organization is Arizona State University, which recently released an anthology that imagined the future of solar power.
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Earlier this year, Mondelez (MDLZ) agreed to buy enough solar power to produce 10 billion Oreo cookies per year.
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He said he didn't know how many of Tesla's customers had solar power already or expressed interest in it.
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Solar power is an option, but areas of the lunar surface go without sunlight for weeks at a time.
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A solar power farm is seen along a highway in the northwestern China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region Friday, Oct.
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The battery is also able to fill "dormancy periods" of renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power.
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China is the world's biggest solar power generator, with 43 gigawatts of capacity by the end of last year.
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In addition, Tesla announced an initiative to use its Powerwall batteries and solar power to cool classrooms in Hawaii.
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Dudley said BP was also studying autonomous vehicles and the potential for combining natural gas with solar power generation.
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He and his colleagues teamed up with Mera Gao Power (MGP), one of India's providers of solar-power systems.
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Among expanding profit areas, she listed smoke detectors, home produced solar power, batteries and charging kits for electric cars.
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"Solar power is a blessing to us as we can now serve more customers quicker and efficiently," he said.
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He promised a roof covered with solar power generating roof tiles, that would look something like premium architectural shingles.
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What's different now is that the time to see a return on the investment in solar power has fallen.
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Now it plans to light up entire villages, create public lighting systems using cheap and sustainable solar power methods.
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More than anything, the project is aimed at promoting the suitability of solar power for this sort of endeavor.
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Any scenario that has humanity avoiding the worst ravages of climate change involves explosive global growth in solar power.
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Homes and businesses can install solar panels, while companies like LocalSun enable renters to buy solar power as well.
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Meanwhile, solar power is expected to replace most of the state's retiring coal capacity over the next 15 years.
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It seems solar power gets cheaper up to the 280 MW to 20 MW range, and then levels out.
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Natural gas is now cheaper than coal for most utility uses, and wind and solar power don't use fuel.
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But the news also comes at a time when some indicators have suggested slowdowns in the solar power business.
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Since January of 2017, the data center has operated entirely on solar power from Chile's Atacama region, Google said.
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Dominion Virginia Power hopes to increase its number of solar power facilities eightfold by 2032, the Daily Press reports.
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But Honorable stressed that record amounts of wind and solar power had been generated recently without harming the grid.
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Juno, NASA's biggest outer-planet spacecraft venture since New Horizons, has proven that solar power can match nuclear power.
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The Energy Information Administration projected that the U.S. added 2628 gigawatts of utility-scale solar power last year alone.
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A group in Maine is pushing lawmakers to expand solar power in the state, the Portland Press Herald reports.
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Side effects: The technology could cause regional drought, produce less sunlight for solar power and make skies less blue.
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The Seiko Prospex SNE 498P9 has true diving credentials, historical significance in the Seiko range, and reliable solar power.
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SolarCity, meanwhile, makes solar power systems, as well as selling, leasing and installing them for residential and commercial use.
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EIA discounts the targets issued by foreign governments for wind and solar power, assuming they won't be fully met.
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China, a country with the heaviest carbon footprint on the planet, would especially find space-based solar power attractive.
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When Obama took office in 2009, there were no solar power projects on federal land, and few wind projects.
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It can run off battery or a solar-power accessory so it can be plugged anywhere throughout the home.
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The groom, 37, is the director of asset deployment at SolarCity, a solar power provider in San Mateo, Calif.
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Mihingoni primary will get an improved battery system to store solar power and help bridge the gap, he said.
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At a newly constructed facility in Kenya, however, a nonprofit called GivePower is tackling that challenge using solar power.
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Systems using solar power and batteries with diesel as back-up could work well in places with remote communities.
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But we should not compare apples with oranges; that is what advocates of solar power encourage us to do.
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Some industry groups fear it would favor nuclear and coal, and disadvantage natural gas and wind and solar power.
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Israeli-American solar power generation company Energiya Global expects to capitalize on the Trump administration's emphasis on "fighting Jihadism".
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Beyond this move toward solar power, Chernobyl is also gaining a reputation as a lush—and accidental—wildlife preserve.
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In the encouraging spirit of solar power replacing coal, your best option here is really a solar-powered grill.
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In India, Sharma said Delta also expected to benefit from the expansion of data centres and solar power initiatives.
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Exactly how India can carry out that plan, which includes a significant increase in solar power, is not clear.
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In September, Elon Musk, the electric car and solar power entrepreneur, announced his vision for a journey to Mars.
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Mr. Gutierrez is still pushing community solar power, and NRG provides solar installations to big companies like Whole Foods.
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The declining price of solar power gets more press, but there are big things happening in wind technology too.
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In May, state regulators revised the building code to require newly built homes to be equipped for solar power.
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And some countries are using the internet for peer-to-peer electricity trading of the solar power they generate.
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The latest bid makes solar power less expensive than coal, which sells for about 3 rupees per kilowatt-hour.
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The duo replaced the controller, which regulates the charge to the batteries that distribute solar power to the station.
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And new figures show the U.S. solar power market experienced more record growth in the second quarter of 2017.
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Now, India's energy minister acknowledges that solar power is cheaper than coal, and a coal glut has been acknowledged.
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Also on the podcast is Leo Murray, from "Riding Sunbeams", on using solar power to propel future commuter journeys.
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Undeniably, the people of Puerto Rico would be better off if their electricity were generated from clean solar power.
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In the meantime, two more South African airports have begun to incorporate solar power as part of sustainability efforts.
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Like fusion energy, space-based solar power seemed doomed to become a technology that was always 30 years away.
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Statoil said it would be acquiring the share from Scatec Solar, an independent solar power producer based in Norway.
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In Los Angeles this year, dismayed workers at gas plants almost scuttled the mayor's plan to expand solar power.
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Utilities have focused instead on building smaller, less financially risky plants fueled by natural gas, wind or solar power.
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The growing viability of storage solutions like large-scale batteries will also support solar power installations, the firm says.
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" Mr. Lin added: "China is now No. 1 in the world in installed capacity of wind and solar power.
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The solar power company's revenue also came in below estimates and First Solar gave weaker-than-expected revenue guidance.
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If history is any indication, we'll eventually be saying something similar about generating and storing our own solar power.
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The state estimates the new solar power rule will help homeowners save about $19,21 in a 2100-year period.
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Part of the problem, he said, is that solar power has been widely viewed as a heavily subsidized market.
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Solar power will soon have to compete without government support, Mr. Guinness said, but he's untroubled by the switch.
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The city is a regional space hub where a facility to develop the solar power farms has been founded.
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Although the majority of Huawei's market is in smartphones, the company also has branches focused on solar power development.
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Officials have approved a Duke Energy plan to open three solar power facilities in Kentucky, the Associated Press reports.
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One of Madad's projects raised funds to bring solar power to the village of Heiz in Egypt's Bahariya Oasis.
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Paul LePage (R) vetoed legislation that would have kept net metering for solar power, the Portland Press-Herald reports.
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India and France are committing billions of dollars to fund solar power projects in the developing world, Nature reports.
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While solar power projects can be grand in scale there are some that, while smaller, are no less important.
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Many states have adopted Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs) setting out targets and timetables for expanded wind and solar power.
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And it's scrambling to import more efficient ways of financing solar power that have been pioneered in the West.
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Therefore, PREPA would need to keep them running regularly even if most people did have access to solar power.
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Narendra Modi's government aims to raise solar power generation capacity nearly 30 times to 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2022.
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Solar power also reduces the water use, air pollution and climate-warming emissions associated with other sources of electricity.
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Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres baseball team, will soon have a 336,520-watt solar power system.
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Although the majority of Huawei's market is in smartphones, the company also has branches focused on solar power development.
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Americans invented the modern solar power industry, but thanks to Chinese government intervention, China's solar industry leads the world.
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Some solar power suppliers said they would seek the state's help to pressure PG&E to honor its contracts.
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And as products reach market, scale will bring costs down, just as it has for wind and solar power.
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And more and more indicators point toward a future in which wind and solar power play a large role.
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That's a lot of people who love solar power but have no way to get directly involved in it.
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China installed 20 gigawatts (GW) of solar power capacity in the first half of 2016, which took the new commercial solar power capacity above its 2016 target at 18.1 GW. The government said it would halt approvals to new projects in western regions such as Gansu and Xinjiang where solar projects are concentrated.
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Over 100 community solar projects exist throughout the state, and legislation has set a 10% solar power goal by 2030.
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Utility-scale solar power generation alone is expected to increase by 45 percent by 2017, according to the Energy Department.
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Tesla – The company reduced prices on its solar power systems as it looks to make sustainable energy use more affordable.
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Renewables Wind and solar power have made remarkable gains and now account for a growing share of global energy supply.
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This is his case: There is no denying that wind and solar power are important to a balanced energy portfolio.
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It plans to pilot low income solar power kits in rural areas in Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Cameroon in 2016.
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Musk tweeted yesterday he could be the one to rebuild Puerto Rico's electricity system using independent batteries and solar power.
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NRG's struggling GenOn Energy affiliate and its solar-power division are among the units the committee is expected to assess.
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Solar power contributes just over 1% of Brazil's total electricity generation, which is expected to soar in the coming decades.
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TRINE, which connects investors with solar power entrepreneurs in East Africa via its website, has launched a Christmas present campaign.
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Upendra Tripathy, the director general of the new alliance, said it aims scale-up solar power in many more countries.
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That pace is being driven by solar power, which is being rapidly embraced in the European Union, India and Vietnam.
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Mr Modi's government has taken some big steps, adopting stricter vehicle-emissions standards, and achieving some ambitious solar-power targets.
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India promised, for instance, that solar power will make up an impressive-sounding 36% of its generation capacity by 1503.
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Wind and solar power costs are plummeting thanks to improving technologies, while energy efficiency measures are reducing overall energy demand.
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Much of renewable energy generation is intermittent: wind and solar power generation peaks are often around times of low demand.
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It also charges the projects using the solar power a service fee of 10% to 20% of gross lease payments.
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Of course advanced civilizations might be able to build planet-sized solar power stations to accelerate ships to relativistic speeds.
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The experimental plane — which runs purely on solar power — landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport at 22:59 a.m.
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Space-based solar power—an idea that's been around since the 1960s—could solve this problem once and for all.
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Wind and solar power expanded rapidly as costs fell, demonstrating that a high-tech, low-carbon future is within reach.
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Just this week, the Solar Impulse 2 became the first plane to travel round the world using only solar power.
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Quercus, a British company, has just announced a €500m investment to build and operate a solar power station in Iran.
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Morocco is building a colossal solar-power plant in the desert, as is Dubai, part of United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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The ADB signed a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to back the solar power expansion.
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Shenhua is partnering with SolarReserve, a Californian company that builds solar power plants designed to supply electricity to the grid.
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Concentrated solar power plants, in addition to being a menace to themselves, can also pose a hazard to local wildlife.
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Singapore-headquartered Cleantech Solar has entered into a 20-year rooftop solar power purchase agreement with a winery in Thailand.
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It's a new technology for storing energy, an important part of enabling more wind and solar power on the grid.
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Micromobility can be just as transformational as solar power or electric vehicles—with impacts that will be felt much sooner.
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a technique that uses solar power to produce clean hydrogen from biomass.
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This move is in line with meeting the government's target for installation of 40GW rooftop solar power plans by 2022.
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STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Solar power is not new, but storing this much energy from the sun is.
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The solar power company had been chaired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and counted his relatives among its top executives.
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Squint and you can see a nascent industrial policy effort to make the USA a world leader in solar power.
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Around 100,000 formerly impoverished farmers have ridden the wave, splashing cash on motorcycles, 52-inch TVs, and solar power systems.
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Superblock holds solar power capacity of 760 MW and is waiting for government approval for s 695 MW wind project.
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One solar power pioneering company, BrightSource Israel, formerly LuzII, is building the world's tallest solar tower in the Negev desert.
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When solar power has to compete with power generated with natural gas and coal it gets cheaper because it must.
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In Chile, the world's top copper producer, that has largely meant a turn to solar power and desalinated sea water.
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The company has also started doing solar power projects on land it owns, as well as natural gas pipeline easements.
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Commenting on the cost of solar power in general, the International Energy Agency's Simon Müller noted how times have changed.
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Solar power availability in Germany will rise by 1.2 GW on Wednesday to 257.00 GW, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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Trump has bashed solar in the past, and his White House energy page makes no mention of solar power anywhere.
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This intermittency — which is also inherent in solar power — is what dooms efforts to mandate increased use of renewable energy.
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A federal trade panel is recommending that President Trump impose tariffs as high as 28503 percent on solar power technology.
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Juno is also the first solar-powered spacecraft to explore the outer planets, which raises the question: why solar power?
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The U.S. is home to some vast solar power sites, such as the 550-megawatt Topaz Solar Farm in California.
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By working directly with the fire station, they were able to deliver solar power while bypassing the larger government bureaucracy.
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Another claim is that coal's demise is a result of economics, as is the rise of wind and solar power.
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SoftBank said in March its Vision Fund would invest in creating the world's biggest solar power project in Saudi Arabia.
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The panellists argue that renewable energies such as wind and solar power are insufficient to meet the world's energy needs.
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Nevertheless, a symbiosis clearly exists among electric cars, battery storage and solar power as pillars of a sustainable energy future.
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Here, CNBC's Sustainable Energy looks at the top 2200 corporations in the U.S. by their installed capacity of solar power.
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Even with lavish subsidies, wind and solar power together account for slightly more than 85033 percent of the nation's electricity.
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The continent gets 117 percent more sunshine than Germany, which today has the highest installed solar power capacity, he said.
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The House bill released last month took direct aim at federal subsidies for electric vehicles, wind energy and solar power.
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Nigeria signed its first solar power purchase agreements in July for 14 large-scale plants after four years of negotiations.
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Shell also supplies power to industrial customers in Britain and has recently acquired a solar power company in the country.
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The ADB said its Rooftop Solar Power Generation Project would increase access to "clean and reliable power" in the country.
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On Tuesday evening, the prince announced, along with Softbank, a plan to build the world's largest solar power generation project.
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BCPG operates solar power plants with a total capacity of 118 megawatts (MW) in Thailand and 164 MW in Japan.
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Gas, wind and solar power have eaten into coal and nuclear's share of U.S. electric power generation in recent years.
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Earlier this month, the California Energy Commission mandated that all newly constructed low-rise residential buildings must include solar power.
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Solar power is becoming more widely adopted on Earth, but in space, it's been a default energy source for decades.
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India has also re-opened a U.S. dispute, alleging Washington has failed to comply with a ruling on solar power.
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Per their calculations, 51,999 US lives would be saved—along with $1.1 million per life—by switching to solar power.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exchange-traded funds have proliferated in niches ranging from cyber security to solar power and even marijuana.
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Now that a new well in her own village runs on solar power, she does not have to go anywhere.
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Demand for solar power equipment is drying up in key markets just as supplies are booming, the investment bank warns.
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By 2050, he envisions enormous batteries storing solar power generated during the day, allowing people to use it at night.
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More New York homeowners have tapped into solar power in recent years, as regulations have eased and prices have dropped.
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Even as wind and solar power have grown, they'd probably grow faster without cheap natural gas throttling wholesale power prices.
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A dollar's worth of solar-power investment yields about four times as much capacity as it did ten years ago.
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This is the holy grail of renewable energy because it would solve the intermittency problem of wind and solar power.
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Democrats had sought to extend wind and solar power tax credits, which are set to expire in 10, through 2027.
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"We're expecting solar power to be a much bigger part of our footprint by 2024," said Mr. Seiler of PJM.
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It can also generate 45 kilowatt-hours of solar power, and can produce 2,300 heads of leafy greens a week.
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In 2005, Mankins left NASA to work as a consultant, but he couldn't shake the idea of space solar power.
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Both Jaffe and Mankins described it as a crucial moment for reviving the US government's interest in space solar power.
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In October, the Air Force Research Lab announced a $100 million program to develop hardware for a solar power satellite.
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An earlier version of this article included an incorrect description of the size of the solar power industry work force.
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The U.S. figures come after SolarPower Europe published its first EU Market Outlook for Solar Power earlier in the week.
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PIF is also backing the country's plans to diversify into solar power as well as waste management, infrastructure and entertainment.
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These policies, coupled with tax credits for wind and solar power, have helped spur a rush of investment in renewables.
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But the solar power industry is one of the biggest success stories so far in China's efforts involving advanced industries.
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This is true in fields like energy, where clean air mandates led to big investments in wind and solar power.
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And with a combination of residential solar power and battery storage, homeowners can minimize their resort to the grid altogether.
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There's another way to look at the question: Does adding solar power increase a home's value at time of sale?
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There is currently a debate taking place in Brazil on the topic of solar power and how to price it.
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Batteries also allow customers to use their solar power when it can benefit their neighbors and our energy system most.
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It has invested in solar power projects in Jordan and acquired a stake in the Oman-based Phoenix Power Company.
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Planning for the future Retrofitting buildings for solar power is another way Green The Church is making congregations more sustainable.
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He is excited about solar power, which already runs many satellites in space, where there is no night, or clouds.
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The company offers mostly free classes about solar power, composting, vertical farming and other ways to live more eco-friendly.
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In 2016, China was responsible for nearly half of the world's solar power growth, according to the International Energy Agency.
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We brought down the costs of wind and solar power, high-efficiency lighting, air conditioners and appliances through technology innovation.
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In October 2015, Banister House in Hackney, east London, became home to the borough's first community-owned solar power project.
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In a tweet Thursday, Musk said he believes Tesla could rebuild the country's power grid with batteries and solar power.
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"I'm in no position to editorialize about solar power or any kind of renewable power," Letterman said in the promo.
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Kamuthi, located 90 kilometers outside Madurai, is now home to the world's largest solar power plant at a single location.
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Concentrated solar power can generate electricity at peak times of the day after the sun sets — but at a cost.
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While many other African villages use solar power to some extent, Id Mjahdi uses it for all its energy needs.
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Solar power, while still a very small part of the total energy mix, has increased at an even faster rate.
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In two other sun-drenched states, Arizona and Nevada, solar-power advocates say utilities have succeeded in undermining solar's progress.
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Mehta said ABB will continue to integrate solar power into projects like smart buildings, energy storage and electric car charging.
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It has also signed agreements to buy solar power in Britain and develop renewables power grids in Asia and Africa.
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Tesla (TSLA) said it's reduced prices on its solar power systems as it looks to make sustainable energy use more affordable.
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The prices of wind and solar power in Africa are competitive with (and in some places less than) that of coal.
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For the first time, the renewable energy sector -- that includes hydro, wind and solar power -- is generating more electricity than coal.
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Solar power, for instance, is now cheaper than coal in some parts of the world, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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However, the installation of solar power capacity would likely fall short of the 10.2 GW by the end of the year.
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TRINE's solar partners are not the only ones selling solar power kits for monthly repayments in countries like Kenya and Tanzania.
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Mondelez said the solar power purchase supports its goal to cut 2020 CO2 emissions in manufacturing by 15% from 2013 levels.
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The company has built 6.2 gigawatts of wind power capacity and 182 megawatts of solar power and is developing geothermal energy.
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The national energy regulator has been licensing a raft of solar power projects, most of which are still to take off.
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"It's not designed to cut off trade from China forever," she said at the Solar Power International conference in Anaheim, California.
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"We are certainly concerned," Suzanne Leta, the head of global market strategy at SunPower, said at the Solar Power International conference.
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That ambition, though probably still out of reach, is looking more credible today because of the crashing cost of solar power.
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Government interventions may work in industries such as solar power and railways, which are dominated by subsidies and public-sector procurement.
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Solar power currently provides roughly 2% of U.S. electricity, and while it's growing fast, advocates hope to see even faster deployment.
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The economy is already changing over to use natural gas, wind, and solar power since these sources are cheaper than coal.
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It's structured so that as solar power becomes more efficient, the effect of the credit on each watt produced becomes smaller.
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When Elon Musk's electric car company offers to buy Elon Musk's solar power company, you better believe things will get complicated.
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The national energy regulator has been licencing a raft of solar power projects, most of which are still to take off.
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Google's Project Sunroof, which estimates whether homes get enough sunlight to switch over to solar power, is launching in Germany today.
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Apple has already invested heavily in solar power, creating a $850-million solar farm last year to power its California operations.
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The ability to drill wells and, more recently, to extract water from them cheaply with solar power has changed all that.
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One such institution is Malika Higher Secondary School, where solar power is helping to transform the educational experience of young people.
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We've seen crowdfunded projects try to use kinetic charging or solar power to try and pull off a similar trick, too.
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The piece said renewable energy like wind and solar power was important, but questioned whether they could replace other energy resources.
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To help with the clean-up, China is encouraging developers to turn abandoned mining sites into wind and solar power projects.
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