The Malaysia’s first solar plant will be located in Putrajaya and to execute the plan Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has already completed the pre-qualification tender process, TNB president and chief executive officer Che Khalib Mohamad Noh said.
The power generated by this plant will be too small to make the profit out of it, but it will be a major step forward in the country’s drive to harness renewable energy sources to wean itself from an over-reliance on fossil fuels, which will run out one day. The solar power plant would take 12 months for completion and would be located in the buffer zone of an existing power station in Putrajaya.
The Press report says, as the solar power plantation requires large tracts of land, so they have decided to build the solar power on the 500m buffer area in the existing power plant. And the added advantage is that the cost will be lower as there is already a substation in the location to immediately connect to the system.
SoloPower Inc of San Jose, CA is a manufacturer of flexible, lightweight copper indium gallium di-selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules on stainless-steel materials using a proprietary low-cost roll-to-roll electro-deposition process.
SoloPower has received a $197m loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy (DOE) on a conditional commitment.The funds will support construction of a $340m high-volume manufacturing facility and 400MW of modules annually in Wilsonville in the longer term.
Other companies to have got the benefit of the guarantee program include CdTe panel maker Abound Solar that received a $400 million guarantee commitment late last year, while the proposed 290 MW Agua Caliente solar power project in Arizona, which will use solar panels made by First Solar, got $967 million guarantee in January 2011.
The company has also applied for a Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC) of $20m from the State of Oregon. The State funding supplements $51.575m in fourth-round equity option financing raised last December from existing investors Crosslink Capital (of San Francisco), Convexa A/S (of Oslo, Norway) and Hudson Clean Energy Partners LP (of Teaneck, NJ) in order to expand SoloPower’s existing 109,000ft2 small-scale production plant in San Jose and to finance construction of the new plant.
Solar electric is energy converted directly into electricity.
In this conversion solar power cells, also known as photovoltaic or PV cells are used. PV modules are made up of individual PV cells and are joined together to form a PV array, which is used to generate electricity. The PV array is installed on a roof or in a sunny location to maximize the sun’s rays. When the sun rays falls on the array, the solar energy is converted into electric current that can be used to operate appliances and other household devices.
Once installed, a photovoltaic system can produce power for more than 20 years and it requires little maintenance.
If you want to have an emergency “backup” system for your house continuous electrical power, then the solution is Solar Generators. Solar power Generators are now available for Unexpected Power Outages
The completely portable (and ultra-high efficient) solar power generator are available in market which produces up to 1800 watts of household electricity on demand when you need it most. News of this “solar backup generator” (it’s the first “off-the-grid” breakthrough in 50 years) is spreading like wildfire all across the country!
Portable Solar Power manufactures a line of power units as well as produces custom designs to fit your needs.
This solar generator is extremely powerful and yet very simple to use. Easy to ship and set up, they are a durable, attractive solution to the remote-power problem. It produces continuous electricity and with no noise at all. It emits no fumes. But the best part about the solar generator is that it generates free electricity and they don’t run out of fuel, require oil changes, pollute the air or make any noise! These units are reliable, clean, quiet and economical thanks to many recent advancements in the solar industry.
The generator unit stores the power for your critical times. We all face natural disasters, with hurricanes, tornadoes, snow and ice storms cutting off electrical power to millions of people each year.
The Columbus Dispatch reported on Sunday that the Department of Development has stopped accepting grant request applications for advanced energy projects in Ohio, as the funds were over by the month of November. The program awarded $15.6 million in grants for 161 solar power panels and wind-turbine projects from July to November.
More than 200 homeowners and businesses filed grant requests before the cutoff, only to find out they wouldn’t get funds from the program this year, according to the newspaper.
The grants were paid for by a 9-cent fee on most residents’ electricity bills each month, but the fee expired last year and was not reauthorized. The 200-plus applications submitted last year sought nearly $21 million, compared with just $2 million provided for 67 projects five years ago.
A grid-tie inverter (GTI), technically called “grid-interactive inverter” is a type of inverter that converts direct current(DC) electricity into alternating current(AC) electricity and feeds it into an existing electrical grid. They are normally used to convert direct current produced by many renewable energy sources, such as solar panels or small wind turbines, into the alternating current used topower homes and businesses. They may also be called synchronous inverters. Grid-interactive inverters typically cannot be used in standalone applications where utility power is not available.
Inverters take DC power, and change it to AC power to be fed into the electric utility company grid. The Grid Tie Inverter must synchronize its frequency with that of the grid (e.g. 50 or 60 Hz) using a local oscillator and limit the voltage to no higher than the grid voltage. Typical modern GTIs have a fixed unity power factor, which means its output voltage and current are perfectly lined up, and its phase angle is within 1 degree of the AC power grid. The inverter has an on board computer which will sense the current AC grid waveform, and output a voltage to correspond with the grid.
Indiana’s largest airport wants to build the largestsolar energy farm in the state on 30 acres of airport-owned land near the end of a runway that would be capable of lighting up to 6,000 homes. Airport leaders have approved a 30-year plan aimed at developing land to allow the airport to grow and support itself financially for years to come.
The solar energy farm would be able to generate 10 megawatts of electricity an hour would be sold to Indianapolis Power & Light. The airport would lease the property to a company that would build and operate the solar arrays.
Other airports, including Denver and Fresno, Calif., have put money-making solar farms near runways on property not suitable for other types of developments.
One of the first proposals to be developed will be a 60-acre solar farm that officials said would power the new development and feed energy to Indianapolis Power and Light.
When the mini city is done, consultants said it will generate $30 million to $60 million a year in rent from tenants, key to eliminating the airport’s $1.1 billion debt.
Industry experts estimate that a developer would have to spend $30 million to build the solar farm and that the equipment could generate electricity for at least 30 years.
Salpointe Catholic High School installed 23.5-kilowatt solar power photovoltaic panels system on Friday comprises 150 photovoltaic panels mounted atop Salpointe’s Alumni Hall, 1545 E. Copper St., and on the roof of the Corcoran Theater, the largest such system at any local high school, according to press release.
The solar panels will generate 40,000 kilowatt-hours and will produce 2.1 percent of the school’s electricity. That’s like reducing the release of 52,000 pounds of carbon dioxide.The system is valued at $118,344, and will save the school about $170,000 during the next 30 years, was donated by Solar Ventures LLC and installed by Tucson’s Industrial Solar LLC. The system is the largest school-based system connected to the electrical grid of Tucson Electric Power Co.
Solar photovoltaic technology (SPV) is primarily a semiconductor-based technology in which sunlight is converted into solar electricity. A basic PV system is made of PV modules and the balance of systems (BOS). Balance of systems includes support structure, wiring, storage, power electronics, etc.
Components of PV system A PV system consists of the following components. 1 PV panels (also known as solar panels) 2 Battery 3 Charge controller 4 Inverter/converter 5 Mounting structure and tracking device 6 Interconnections and other devices
SolarCity, a California company that designs, installs and finances solar power systems is now offering leased solar panels to East Coast Rooftops. SolarCity will expand it services to New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. SolarCity is the nation’s largest solar service provider with more than 1,000 employees and 10,000 projects completed or underway.
“SolarCity will be able to offer solar to many homeowners and businesses in the Northeast at or below the cost they currently pay for electricity,” said Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity, in a statement. “We expect thousands of additional homeowners in the Northeastern states to go solar this year, while local incentives are strong.”
