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USA – 1 Million Solar Strong
May 4, 2016Energy Matters
http://www.energymatters.com.au/renewable-news/million-solar-strong-em5458/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/millionsolarstrong
http://www.seia.org/sites/default/files/Million%20Solar%20Install%20Factbook%205.3.16.pdf
While it’s taken decades for the USA to reach 1 million installed solar power systems; the next million will only take a couple of years. By 2025, the U.S. will be installing a million systems a year.
According to a new report published by the George Washington Solar Institute, there’s enough solar installed across the nation right now to power the entire state of Pennsylvania or to cover every rooftop in New Mexico.
The Institute’s report has been timed to coincide with the launch of the #MillionSolarStrong campaign; recognising the milestone and promoting further solar awareness.
Solar in the USA is currently generating enough electricity to power 5.9 million households. By 2020, that figure will skyrocket to 20 million homes.
There are 942,000 residential solar installs in the USA, 56,500 commercial installations and 1,500 utility scale projects generating clean electricity for the nation’s grid.
“Our meteoric growth is driven by the fact that solar is one of the lowest cost options for electricity and it has been embraced by people who care about the environment and want to choose where their energy is coming from,” said Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The SEIA is spearheading the #MillionSolarStrong campaign.
According to the report, solar installation costs have plummeted by more than 70% over the past ten years, led by more efficient solar panels that are two-thirds cheaper than just 5 years ago.
On the environmental front, the USA’s solar power systems are having a significant impact on carbon emissions reduction; avoiding 34 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. That’s equivalent to the emissions footprint of the entire state of Oregon.
The nation’s solar industry has also triggered a jobs bonanza, with the industry now employing more than 200,000 Americans. Solar was responsible for the creation of 1 in 83 of all new U.S. jobs last year and solar jobs are expected to double to 420,000 by 2021.
The Million Solar Milestone report can be viewed in full here (PDF) and the #MillionSolarStrong campaign page here.
Trivia: the USA’s first residential solar PV system was installed in 1973
You mean were working on lunar panels. Then martian panels, venution panels...
Their growth strategy is centered on M&A... at least it was in 2015.
Exactly to the moon! Lmao!!
New Record Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Now Undercutting Coal
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-03/solar-developers-undercut-coal-with-another-record-set-in-dubai
2.99 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour is 15% lower than old record
Cheaper than new coal-fired electricity in the Gulf emirate
Solar power set another record-low price as renewable energy developers working in the United Arab Emirates shrugged off financial turmoil in the industry to promise projects costs that undercut even coal-fired generators.
Developers bid as little as 2.99 cents a kilowatt-hour to develop 800 megawatts of solar-power projects for the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority, the utility for the Persian Gulf emirate, announced on Sunday. That’s 15 percent lower than the previous record set in Mexico last month, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
The lowest priced solar power has plunged almost 50 percent in the past year. Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power International set a record in January 2015 by offering to build a portion of the same Dubai solar park for power priced at 5.85 cents per kilowatt-hour. Records were subsequently set in Peru and Mexico before Dubai reclaimed its mantel as purveyor of the world’s cheapest solar power.
“This bid tells us that some bidders are willing to risk a lot for the prestige of being the cheapest solar developer,” said Jenny Chase, head of solar analysis at BNEF. “Nobody knows how it’s meant to work.”
Plunging costs along with the bankruptcy for the biggest developer, SunEdison Inc., has spurred questions about whether the cheapest projects will ever be profitable. The collapse of the world’s largest renewable energy company made some banks wary of financing projects. The winners of recent auctions in Mexico, Peru and Chile were diversified power companies like Enel SpA, which perhaps prioritized market share over profit maximization.
Dubai’s utility didn’t identify the developers behind the record-low bid it received. MEED reported that it’s a group including Masdar Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co., Spain’s Fotowatio Renewable Ventures BV and Saudi Arabia’s Abdul Latif Jameel. Among those companies, only Masdar could be reached for comment, and it didn’t confirm that it was the low bidder.
“A consortium led by Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, was one of a number of bidders to have submitted a proposal for the third phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park,” a spokesperson for the consortium said in an e-mailed statement. “This is an active bid, with the technical and commercial proposals being evaluated by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority.”
Tender Process
The shift to tenders from feed-in tariffs for clean energy globally has helped governments rein in support for renewables while prodding companies to deliver lower costs. That’s shifted pressure away from government budgets and toward developers, which must strike a balance between a winning new contracts and maintaining profits.
Enel Green Power’s Chief Executive Officer Francesco Venturini, whose company bid 3.5 cents a kilowatt hour in Mexico last month, said in an interview that his projects will still make decent money even with record-low prices for electricity.
Enel’s Strategy
“There is no value in winning without margin attached,” Venturini said in an interview in Brussels last month. “I have two investment committees and two boards of directors I need to present my projects to and they want to see the money attached to it. So trust me, there is margin.”
Dubai’s state utility said it received five bids for the 800-megawatt project, which will be the third phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum solar park. It has not awarded the building permits yet. The facility is planned to have a capacity of 5 gigawatts by 2030.
“This price is borderline in terms of viability, but it’s an outlier project,” said Josefin Berg, solar analyst at IHS Inc., an industry researcher. “The size of the installation makes it easier to get good conditions on their procurement. It shouldn’t be used as a benchmark.”
The 2.99 cents bid for the solar project is a third lower than the electricity that will be generated by a coal plant commissioned by Dubai in October. That facility, set to begin generating in 2020, is expected to feed power onto the grid at 4.501 cents per kilowatt-hour under a 25-year power purchase agreement.
I have lost NOTHING! So THERE!Bulls. }
Ah shoot... That's embarrassing. I meant to write BEARS ... Not
For some reason, he imagines SUNW to be the next SUNE or something.
Yes, amazing isn't it... Where is our graphine?!
FINALLY! Got mine too!
I LOVE our disruption!
Four Reasons German Utility Chiefs Face Sleepless Nights
May 3, 2016 — 12:00 AM CDT
Updated on May 3, 2016 — 5:26 AM CDT
With power prices in Germany, Europe’s biggest market, languishing near 13-year lows, utilities relying mainly on fossil fuels have rarely had it this bad as they get squeezed by wind and solar.
“I spent days and nights considering all options” to save dividend payments, Peter Terium, RWE AG’s chief executive officer, told shareholders in Essen on April 20.
The collapse in wholesale prices eventually forced his hand and Germany’s biggest electricity producer for the first time in about half a century suspended annual payouts to most of its shareholders. Here are four charts showing how and why the conventional fossil-fuel utility model is straining as the region favors renewable energy to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Slumping Prices
Even the newest lignite power plants need an electricity price of about 23 euros ($26.19) a megawatt-hour to cover cash costs, said Lueder Schumacher, an analyst at Societe Generale SA in London. Lignite, a rock formed from compressed peat that has been a mainstay of German power generation for almost a century, accounted for 24 percent of the nation’s energy last year. For older, less efficient plants, the price required to cover cash costs is as high as 39 euros, he said.
Wind Pushing Coal Out
German wind generation jumped 47 percent last year to average 9,104 megawatts a day, data from the European Energy Exchange AG on Bloomberg show.
“When the wind blows really hard, the utilities have to ramp down because prices are so low,” said Deepa Venkateswaran, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in London. “The more stop-start the power production is, utilities will either have lower longevity for their plants or they’ll need to spend more to maintain them.”
Lignite plants were previously built to run continuously. RWE has reconfigured its fleet, the biggest in Germany, to react to wind. It can now cut capacity by half in as little as 30 minutes to respond to surges in renewable energy, according to the company.
Investor Skepticism
The cost of insurance against a default at RWE, the region’s biggest emitter, was near a record in March. By comparison, Iberdrola SA’s credit-default swap is 41 percent cheaper. The Spanish utility embraced the renewables revolution earlier than RWE, diversified geographically and also cut debt, improving its credit quality, said Nadege Tillier, utilities credit analyst at ING Groep NV in Amsterdam.
Germany’s government is negotiating with utilities to close coal plants, which along with nuclear shutdowns will cost about 25,000 jobs, according data from association Deutsches Atomforum e.V. and Deutscher Braunkohlen-Industrie-Verein e.V.. Shutting coal-fired stations immediately after forcing through nuclear shutdowns would incur large costs and might “destroy” a company like RWE, Germany’s biggest power producer, Tillier said.
RWE declined to comment.
“The German government doesn’t want to see RWE, or part of RWE, going bankrupt,” Tillier said. “In the last 12 months, the government has decided to negotiate rather than impose measures” to close power plants.
RWE was the biggest loser last year on Germany’s main DAX index with a 54 percent drop. EON, the nation’s biggest utility, slid 37 percent. RWE has gained 6 percent in 2016, while EON has dropped 2 percent compared with DAX’s 7.4 percent slump.
Gloomy Outlook
Even as the German government is considering paying utilities to close plants, power producers are selling coal-generated electricity into forward markets before margins shrink even further or become negative because of a glut of power, said Bruno Brunetti, senior director for electricity at Pira Energy in New York. While margins from cleaner burning natural gas are improving, they’re not yet in profit -- even after five years of losses.
“The German power market is on an unsustainable path,” Brunetti said.
Next is a prototype..GLTA
With the ER and the CC in the morning, does that mean that it will all be good news?
Sunworks to Announce First Quarter 2016 Results and Hold Conference Call on May 11, 2016
2 days 5 hours 7 minutes ago - DJNF
Sunworks to Announce First Quarter 2016 Results and Hold Conference Call on May 11, 2016
ROSEVILLE, CA--(Marketwired - April 27, 2016) - Sunworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), a provider of solar power solutions announced today that it will report financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 before the market opens on Wednesday, May 11, 2016.
Management will host a conference call to discuss these results on Wednesday, May 11 at 10:00 a.m. ET. To access the call, please dial 1-866-635-0172 (toll free) or 1-785-424-1629. The conference call will also be broadcast live over the Internet, which can be accessed via the Investor Relations section of Sunworks' web site at http://www.sunworksusa.com. All participants should call or access the website approximately 5 minutes before the conference begins.
The webcast will be available for replay for at least 90 days. A telephonic replay of this conference call will also be available by dialing 1-877-481-4010 (toll free) or 1-919-882-2331 (International) using Replay ID 10027, until 11:59 p.m. ET on June 11, 2016.
$0 to $100 mil sounds like a success to me......
This NOT!
SandRidge Energy Inc SDOC:OTC Pink - Current Information (Common Stock)
% Off 52 Week High -95.72%
AND SUNW is not polluting people's water wells....
AND SUNW is not causing earthquakes....
Let's remind us...
Bigger than
Peabody Energy
Arch Coal
Walter Energy
Alpha Natural Resources
COMBINED!
Next target: Get bigger than Exxon Mobil....
THEY ALL LAUGHED AT US!
The joke is on them now!
We have some excitement today. Any news?
Not tradeable yet....
I bought into the Cell company.And I too questioned the installation business. But seeing revenues makes me feel much better about it.
The cell is a possible bonus.
Still waiting for CABN's Graphene, and BSRC's supercap um battery....
Remember the housing boom, than bust.
It takes money. We could go BK too...
Total joins Terrawatt Initiative to achieve solar scale up globally
http://solar.cleantechnology-business-review.com/news/total-joins-terrawatt-initiative-to-achieve-solar-scale-up-globally-250416-4873801
Total joins Terrawatt Initiative to achieve solar scale up globally
CTBR Staff Writer
Published 25 April 2016
Total has joined the Terrawatt Initiative, as a founding member. This global non-profit organization represents key private sector solar energy stakeholders in their dialogue with governments and international organizations. It aims to promote affordable solar energy worldwide.
The goal is to deploy more than 1 terawatt (1 000 gigawatts) of solar power by 2030, representing an investment of over $1 trillion.
Total, world leader in solar energy with its affiliate SunPower, wanted to be a part of this initiative.
The Group is active across the entire photovoltaic value chain, from manufacturing cells to installing residential and commercial rooftop solar solutions. Total recently partnered with SunPower to build a solar farm in Japan.
Total chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanné said: "Our ambition is to become the responsible energy major, in particular by contributing to the development of renewable energies.
"We believe that solar energy is one of the solutions to meet growing electricity demand, especially in Africa, and tackle climate change. That's why we have joined the Terrawatt Initiative to promote the deployment of competitive solar energy worldwide."
Terrawatt Initiative chairperson Isabelle Kocher said: "We welcome Total among the community of leading companies and organizations from across the world, federated under the Terrawatt Initiative banner, that will help, through a constructive dialogue with governments, affordable solar power to bring all its benefits to people and economies."
The Terrawatt Initiative intends in particular to work with the International Solar Alliance (ISA), launched by President François Hollande of France and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India during the COP21 opening ceremony.
ISA's more than 120 member countries are aiming to rapidly implement and scale up affordable and competitive solar energy.
The Terrawatt Initiative also intends to work with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which serves as the principal platform for international cooperation in all forms of renewable energy and shares information among its 145 members.
We are fortunate. Solar is still not being believed in by the deniers. We still haven't been slammed yet that much yet.
By the time they DO believe, it will be WAY too late.
They don't believe because we are still only about 1%.....
When out time DOES come, we will be slamming panels at an unbelievable rate. Easier mounting and plug 'n play connecting.....
SUNE is now SUNEQ and on the OTC.
Current price is about 22¢ with a Cap of $70M
We are creeping up on them
We are up, they are down. No confusing of the tickers!
SunEdison files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Renewable energy firm SunEdison (SUNE) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday in New York, punctuating a tumultuous period in which the company failed to deliver on energy projects it had promised and came under scrutiny for its accounting.
The filing does not include its two subsidiaries, TerraForm Power and TerraForm Global, which has sued the parent company over an India power deal that collapsed.
The move, which had been widely expected, also comes as the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the company's accounting practices. A SunEdison board probe recently concluded that executives delivered an "overly optimistic" financial prognosis but made no "material misstatements" and committed no fraud.
The company also piled up debt in recent years amid an acquisition spree. In its bankruptcy filing, SunEdison lists $20.7 billion in assets and $16.1 billion in liabilities, although those figures include its two subsidiaries.
Wall Street was fed up with SunEdison's so-called yieldco business model. Founded in 1984, the firm develops renewable power projects, such as linked solar panels, that are distributed to its subsidiaries in exchange for a regular flow of dividends gleaned from the sale of power to utility customers.
SunEdison said Thursday that it had secured $300 million in bankruptcy debt financing to maintain operations and continue paying employees. SunEdison said it expects to shed debt through a reorganization, sell "non-core" assets and reemerge from bankruptcy as a stronger company.
"Our decision to initiate a court-supervised restructuring was a difficult but important step to address our immediate liquidity issues," SunEdison CEO Ahmad Chatila said in a statement. "The court process will allow us to right-size our balance sheet and reduce our debt, providing the opportunity to support the business going forward while focusing on our core strengths."
Amid its deteriorating finances in recent months, SunEdison's $2.2 billion bid to acquire Vivint Solar collapsed after its financing package evaporated.
"SunEdison had no option but to file for bankruptcy after the Vivint merger fell through and it became clear no additional sources of liquidity were forthcoming," said Max Frumes, senior editor of distressed debt firm Reorg Research, in a research note. "Now what the company will look like after it restructures and who owns it, and how this impacts its yieldcos, is going to be the focus."
SunEdison's revenue hit a full-year high of $2.7 billion in 2011 and dipped to $2.5 billion in 2014, the latest complete year of results available, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. The company's market capitalization peaked at $17.5 billion in November 2007, as high oil prices fueled interest in renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, according to S&P Global data.
Its largest shareholders are OppenheimerFunds (11.9%), BlackRock (6.5%), Vanguard Group (6.4%) and Adage Capital Partners (5.4%), according to a court filing.
An Skadden Arps attorney for SunEdison was not immediately available for comment Thursday morning.
They are confused! Bid 1¢ Ask 19¢
+ 100%? CABND?On 22,800 shares...
Does anyone know if split happened yet? Sold yesterday but wanted to get back in!
CABND Now..... Might revert back to CABN later....
Sorry.. Its like waiting for a happy meal at the drive thru for 3 plus years. At this rate I might be able to hope for a wifi enabled wheelchair!
Indian example shows solar power cheaper than coal – and half the price of nuclear
https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2016/04/20/indian-example-shows-solar-power-cheaper-than-coal-and-half-the-price-of-nuclear/
Modi’s Energy Minister Piyush Goyal is all over the media this week claiming Indian solar power is now cheaper than coal. He points to the sustained drop in solar costs punctuated by a recent auction of 420MW in the northern state of Rajasthan (population 73m) where solar hit a record low of 4.34 Rupees per MW (ZAR 94c). Coal costs between three and five Rupees.
Even more interesting for South Africans is the way solar is killing nuclear. An 84 page analysis by Deutsche Bank India puts the price of installed nuclear power a few cents higher than the new solar price. Nuclear’s capital cost per MW, however, is now double that of solar.
Not surprisingly, India is betting big on solar power, with a massive ramp up from the current 6 750 MW to 100 000 MW in the next five years, supported by a further 40% fall in capital costs. In the light of such overwhelming evidence (and the uranium-invested Guptas having left for Dubai) we expect an announcement soon officially abandoning SA’s crazy idea of a $100bn nuclear programme.
Make way for the sun! (PDF)
https://www.db.com/cr/en/docs/Deutsche-Bank-report-Make-way-for-the-Sun.pdf
Solar hater turning around....
Conservative Coal Fan Says Solar Is Part Of “Amazing Work” At US Navy Base
April 18th, 2016 by Tina Casey
A new 24 megawatt solar installation is planned for a major US Navy base in Crane, Indiana, and the project is so important that even the state’s conservative Lieutenant Governor, Eric Holcomb, issued an official statement in support. That’s something of a shocker considering his previous put-downs of President Obama’s energy policy, but a closer look at the base reveals why solar is making friends across the aisle.
Solar For A Huge US Navy Base…In Indiana?
The new solar installation will take place at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Crane, the third-largest Navy facility in the entire world.
NSA is located in one of the most landlocked states in the entire US, which might appear to be a strange location for a major US Navy facility, but its mission does not require proximity to water. From its beginnings as an ordnance test center in 1941, NSA has become a global hotbed of naval R&D.
NSA’s motto is “Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter,” which makes solar a natural fit — in more ways than one, as we shall see.
Solar Installation For A Coal State
For those of you familiar with the US Navy’s aggressive pursuit of biofuel and solar energy, another new solar project is, well, just another new solar project. However, this one is particularly newsworthy because it forces a significant positive development for renewable energy in a state that has not been particularly friendly to President Obama’s renewable energy policy.
Last year, for example, Indiana Governor Mike Pence announced that Indiana would not come up with its own carbon reduction strategy under the new federal Clean Power Plan, and he included this little nugget in his 2015 State of the State Address:
Because low-cost energy is vital to our economy, we need an all-of-the-above energy strategy, including energy efficiency. But know this, Indiana is a pro-coal state, and we must continue to oppose the overreaching schemes of the EPA [US Environmental Protection Agency] until we bring this war on coal to an end.
State Attorney General Greg Zoeller added his two cents:
EPA’s rule is an overreach of historic proportions, and this regulation of electrical power generation goes far beyond what Congress authorized the agency to do.
As a candidate for office in 2015, Holcomb’s position on The Clean Power Plan was similarly combative:
…In his unmasked war on coal, President Obama has failed to work through the people’s representatives in Congress…
His agencies have become instruments of command and control into our daily lives…
…The future growth and sustainability of our Hoosier economy depends on coal, and I look forward to proposing Indiana-grown ideas to further develop the natural resources we have…
The Inevitability Of Solar
Fast forward to 2016, and it looks like something has changed.
The new solar project officially got under way back in January, when NSA filed for construction approval from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.
While this would be one of the largest solar installations in the state, the news was met with cricket chirps from the Governor’s office. Duke Energy announced that it would construct the new solar installation on January 7, but its press release did not include a statement of support from anyone in the Indiana government.
However, on April 13, Holcomb himself hosted a major media event at the State Capitol in support of the new NSA solar installation.
The event was attended by key stakeholders including Dennis V. McGinn, assistant secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations & Environment. It looks like coal or no coal, the Navy had a message to send Indiana about the importance of renewable energy to national security.
Still Hedging On Solar
Both Holcomb and Pence are still hedging, but the cracks are beginning to show. Holcomb’s official press release for the event enthused over the new solar project, and the release posted on his official Indiana website includes a statement in support:
Indiana is home to a number of critical defense assets, and we are proud of the amazing work being done at Crane to support American warfighters with the most advanced equipment in the world…
Notice that the statement does not specifically reference solar. That’s not a particularly suspect omission, except when you look at DoD’s version of the press release. It’s nearly identical and it includes the entirety of Holcomb’s Indiana statement, but begins it with this additional key line:
We are honored to welcome Secretary McGinn to Indiana as we express our support for the Duke Energy solar installation at Crane…
Pence evidently prefers to keep his coal friends close, which is probably why he left the official statement to his second-in-command and was a no-show at the April 13 event.
On the other hand, in contrast to last year’s State of the Union tough talk, Pence’s 2016 SOU included nothing at all about energy policy.
In recent media interviews Pence still claims that Indiana is not developing a state-level Clean Power Plan strategy, but according to our friends over at E&E Publishing, his energy policy director has been meeting with stakeholders and prepping for “compliance scenarios.”
We’re guessing that in addition to power generation and distribution companies, those stakeholders include NSA. The base sprawls over four counties and covers almost 100 square miles, and it is a key economic driver in the state. All but around 50 of 5,000 NSA workers are civilian employees.
In addition, renewable energy is a key part of the Defense Department’s climate change and resiliency strategy, and it looks like Indiana is positioned to play an important role in that effort regardless of Pence’s coal-friendly public posture.
According to Duke’s January 7 press release, the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor has partnered with the company on a $1 million research project at the public-private Battery Innovation Center located near NSA Crane, to do this:
…to study how battery storage can maximize renewable power sources, such as rooftop solar panels and small wind turbines, and integrate them into the electric grid.
A key partner in the Innovation Center is a company called Battery Innovation Group. Last month, BIG announced that it has inked a technology transfer deal with the Navy, enabling use of its battery R&D facilities.
Sounds good to me...
Design your own Solar: Sunworks reports strong interest in new concept · 3d
Design your own Solar: Sunworks reports strong interest in new concept
The Solar Design Center educates customers and lets them design their own systems
US solar provider Sunworks has opened an innovative design center, where customers can not only learn about the benefits of solar power, but can design their own personalized system, at a time when inventive mounted arrays are being touted as visual, as well as financial, assets.
The solar industry, in its very essence, benefits from pioneering spirit. Sunworks’ new Solar Design Center in California represents just that, as a cutting-edge facility that gives consumers a taste of its solar products, before letting them design their very own array.
The modern facility, in sun-drenched Rocklin, California, was opened as a way of marketing Sunworks’ products, but also to show the great potential for the different ways in which consumers can engage in the industry. It firstly gives customers the opportunity to learn about solar PV, and the benefits that it can provide, and then it lets them get to work designing their own system, before leaving with a quote.
“As the industry matures and solar becomes more mainstream, it’s important that consumers get the best products, and the best value available,” said Jim Nelson, CEO. “We believe our Design Center will allow us to educate consumers in a relaxed, no pressure environment and provide us an opportunity to showcase the unique and customized solutions Sunworks can offer.”
Although the Center only deals with small-scale PV projects, it generated a lot of interest from the surrounding community, and finished its first week of business with $250,000 in gross sales. Sunworks says that it expects to generate nearly $5 million in annual sales from its Residential Solar Division alone.
It comes at a time when the aesthetics of solar arrays are now themselves being harnessed as visual assets. This is particularly evident from the U.K.’s Solar Trade Association’s new Stunning Solar campaign. The campaign aims to show customers how aesthetically pleasing PV installations can be.
It compiled a selection of the most attractive solar installations in the U.K. to show that as well as being financially and environmentally beneficial, the solar arrays can also be visual assets, which add value to your property.
Related News:
Read more: http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/design-your-own-solar--sunworks-reports-strong-interest-in-new-concept_100024167/#ixzz46CW1kGQ4
I'm still waiting for the SLTD (SUNW) super solar panel....
And CABN Graphene coming out by the ton...
In 1977, however, Shirakawa, MacDiarmid and Heeger discovered that oxidation with chlorine, bromine or iodine vapour made polyacetylene films 10^9 times more conductive than they were originally. Treatment with halogen was called “doping” by analogy with the doping of semiconductors. The “doped” form of polyacetylene had a conductivity of 10^5 Siemens per meter, which was higher than that of any previously known polymer. As a comparison, teflon has a conductivity of 10^–16 S m–1 and silver and copper 10^8 S m–1.”
It appears that the bankruptcy of the worlds largest coal miner, that many are looking for an alternative source of energy.
Fears about the reliability of coal as an energy source.
“Huntly must close” in wake of world’s largest coal company filing for bankruptcy
Greenpeace New Zealand climate and energy campaigner, Jeff Harrison, says the news is a global signal that coal is no longer a viable source of energy,
and demand is shrinking because it’s now significantly more expensive than wind and geothermal. (note I think that we should add solar)
“Here in New Zealand, the last coal units at Huntly must close. Coal is an industry that’s been on the brink of death for years. It’s completely dirty, dangerous and financially defunct,” he says.
“But instead of having our best interests at heart, our electricity companies are holding back-door meetings in an effort to keep burning coal, even though cheaper sources of energy like wind exist.”
In August last year, Huntly’s owner, Genesis Energy, announced it would be closing the coal capabilities of the power plant by the end of 2018, saying New Zealand didn’t need it and it was too expensive to run.
“It’s obviously cleaner, it’s cheaper for us, and it creates far more jobs than coal ever could. We live in 2016, and we live in New Zealand. Coal’s gotta go.”