In Spring 2002, Alameda County successfully completed the fourth largest solar electric system in the world atop the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California. The Santa Rita Jail is the largest energy user of Alameda County's government buildings. This solar installation, the nation's largest rooftop system, was commissioned to help...
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's IMAR government has been aggressive in developing renewable energy resources for both grid-connected and off-grid applications. In addition, more than 7,000 small PV systems have been installed in remote households. The case study project involved levelized cost analyses of existing systems in four counties in...
Located in Butte County, California, the city of Chico was founded in 1860 by General John Bidwell. Chico maintains an historic downtown, a wide variety of services and family oriented neighborhoods. Inspired by the growing number of California cities and counties that have successfully embraced solar power, Chico lawmakers and...
The Media and Technology Charter High School MATCH prepares disadvantaged urban Boston students to attend and excel in college and beyond - including and especially those students who have not been led to expect a university education. The MATCH School wanted to demonstrate that clean, renewable energy could be well...
Most of Wisconsin's power is generated by coal-fired (70%), nuclear (23%) and, increasingly, natural gas fired power plants. These energy resources are finite. Solar energy is clean and abundant, and can meet Wisconsin's growing demand for energy. Photovoltaic energy systems (sometimes referred to as "solar power") are devices that use...
Bolivia's nationally owned post, telephone, and telegraph company, ENTEL Bolivia, needed to provide telecommunications capability to previously unserved regions. AT&T World Services, Inc. selected Northern Power Systems to design and install TelePower hybrid photovoltaic/diesel power systems for fourteen remote locations between Santa Cruz and Quijarro, Bolivia. These TelePower systems consist...
Despite a dramatic increase in solar cell production in the United States last year -- up 48 percent to 266 megawatts -- the nation's share of global production and installations continued to fall in 2007, according to the latest Vital Signs Update from the Worldwatch Institute, produced in collaboration with...
Numerous studies and events over the past several years have stressed the importance of eliminating barriers to trade in renewable forms of energy and the technologies used to exploit them, as part of a broader strategy to reduce dependence on more-polluting and less secure energy sources. This paper examines the...
This article announces Sun Power & Geothermal Energy the completion of a 36.6-kilowatt DC solar photovoltaic PV system for the Royal Petroleum Company headquarters in Santa Rosa, California. Royal Petroleum is the first commercial fuel supplier in the nation to be powered by solar energy. Royal supplies diesel fuel, gasoline...
This paper discusses about the research and development undertaken in order to develop a low cost building integrated concentrating photovoltaic system. The objective of the work carried out was to develop a product that could be cost effective with commercially available components and thereby overcome the main market barrier for...
This paper covers the work undertaken over the course of the project 'Monitoring of PV systems at the Centre for Renewable Energy and the Eco-Energy House'. The work undertaken during this project has identified a number of problems at different stages of he design, installation, commissioning and operation of the...
The following document is submitted as a subset of an overall plan for conservation, energy efficiency and renewables. The proposed guidelines, strategies and actions should become part of a concerted effort by the State to help alleviate the current energy crisis by establishing a long term, comprehensive strategy to improve...
The aim of this project was to monitor performance of PV systems on the Renewable Energy Centre and the Eco-Energy House at the School of Built Environment. This paper summarizes the design process for Building Integrated Photovoltaic BIPV systems on the two buildings. The buildings are significantly different in both...
Technology Editors EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 14, 2004 PVT212 Delivers 75% Lower On-Resistance and up to 37.5% Higher Load Current Capacity International Rectifier (NYSE:IRF) today introduced the new PVT212 microelectronic relay MER that delivers 75% lower on-resistance and up to 37.5% higher...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 8, 1999--GPU, Inc. (NYSE:GPU) announced today the appointment of David C. Brauer as vice president, strategic initiatives for GPU Service, Inc. Brauer was formerly vice president for corporate restructuring where he led GPU's divestiture of its merchant generation assets. In his new position Brauer will...
