solar electric systems phoenix
I read an article in the LA Times by Marla Dickerson a utility called Sempra Generation is using a 10-megawatt solar farm in Nevada that can feeding to 6,400 homes. If you do the math, Sempra is using renewable energy that can match or beat the price performance-based fuels carbon, creating landmark grid parity, electricity from the sun, wind or other green sources matching or exceeding the price of the operation of traditional methods. The company can produce energy at a cost of 7.5 cents per kilowatt hour, less than the standard 9-percent of normal electricity.
Article further establishes that El Dorado Energy Sola, owned by Sempra, is the production of electricity at costs below anything comparable to date. The company has closed a 20-year agreement to sell electricity to Pacific Gas & Electric, whose service territory covers much of central and northern California.
I very excited to see dynamic growth in renewable energy sources. Apparently, First Solar, a company that supplies solar modules Sempra, actions rose 20 percent on the basis of this information.
Dickerson explained that Sempra is building the 80-acre project next to its gas from El Dorado power plant thermal coal, located about 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas in Boulder City, Nevada. The facility uses solar photovoltaic panels similar to those installed at the owners roofs of houses, except the panels are anchored to the desert floor in long rows and many of them – 167,000 to be exact.
The method original convert sunlight into electricity using a semiconductor polycrystalline silicon (used in computer chips) has been expensive and scarce. Now, a method low cost by using a semiconductor known as cadmium telluride, thin film cells is a product cheaper to manufacture.
Both consumers and environmentalists should applaud the reduction in costs to generate electricity through renewable energy.
Sempra so optimistic about the cost-effective, The company plans to install another 50 MW of First Solar panels at the site of El Dorado. In addition, the company plans another project near Phoenix, of about 500 megawatts adjacent to the Mesquite Power Generating Station, a central gas.
Being a Californian I am proud to say that most of this expansion renewable energy is based on a California law requires state investor-owned utilities to generate 20 percent of its electricity renewable sources by 2010, a figure expected to increase to 33 percent come 2020.
I am sure we will see more companies like Sempra to commit to reduce their greenhouse gases significantly. Clearly the cost of solar significantly lower throughout the industry, we'll benefit consumers. The technology is getting much easier to adjust, while producers are increasingly competent as putting one foot in the market remains strong for expand, grow out and other service areas as well.
