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In around 30 years' time, if designers have got their sums right, the excess electricity flowing from the house into Denmark's grid will have cancelled out the energy costs of building it, leaving a non-existent footprint on the earth's resources.

Fracking — injecting high-pressure fluid into rocks deep underground, inducing the release of fossil fuels — is an impressive technology. But it’s also a technology that imposes large costs on the public. We know that it produces toxic (and radioactive) wastewater that contaminates drinking water; there is reason to suspect, despite industry denials, that it also contaminates groundwater; and the heavy trucking required for fracking inflicts major damage on roads.

"According to Lux Research, who will be at Organic Photovoltaics 2011, the market for this technology is anticipated to reach $159 million by 2020; OPV technologies, including bulk hetrojunction, dye sensitized and hybrid cells, are positioned to flourish in niche markets where attributes like cost, portability, transparency and flexibility are important,"

Dr. Hammond brings extensive experience in all areas of OPV, the underlying SolarWindow™ technology, including: the design and synthesis of small molecule and polymeric donor materials, the development of new solution-processed contact materials, the fabrication of OPV devices, large-area device fabrication using various coating methods, and the development of solution-processed flexible and transparent moisture barriers.

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By 2017, Pike Research forecasts that more than 1.5 million locations to charge vehicles will be available in the United States, with a total of nearly 7.7 million locations worldwide.

providing over 11,000 lumens for multi-lane highway light levels

“Este financiamiento es parte del compromiso del BID para desarrollar mecanismos que permitan apoyar la financiación a largo plazo de la energía renovable y proyectos de tecnologías limpias en la región que estimulen la innovación, la creación de empleo y el crecimiento económico verde”, dijo Daniela Carrera-Marquis, jefa de la División de Mercados Financieros del Departamento de Financiamiento Estructurado y Corporativo (SCF) del BID.

El nuevo fondo invertirá en proyectos de energía eólica, solar y geotérmica, así como en pequeñas hidroeléctricas, al igual que en empreas de servicios energéticos que utilizan tecnologías limpias, incluyendo la gestión de residuos, biomasa, eficiencia energética y proyectos de redes inteligentes

dijo John Paul Moscarella, fundador y director gerente de Emerging Energy Latin America Fund II.

rid electricity prices are not fixed, but changing.  Over the past decade, electricity prices have risen, on average across the United States, 3 percent per year.  The solar electricity price is locked in once the panels are operating. Some utilities have time-of-use rates that charge more for electricity during peak times (hot, summer afternoons) that rise as high as 30 cents per kWh.  Solar competes favorably against these rates. There are federal, state and utility incentives for solar that reduce the cost.  The 30% federal tax credit, for example, is in statute until the end of 2016.

The first step is translating solar prices into electricity prices.  Installed costs for solar have dropped dramatically, from $8 to $10 per Watt just a few years ago to as low as $3.50 per Watt for utility-scale systems as just over $4 per Watt for residential systems.  But electricity isn't sold in Watts, but in kilowatt-hours (kWh).  So, solar installed at $3.50 per Watt in Minneapolis, MN, will produce electricity for about 23 cents per kWh.  In sunny Los Angeles, the same solar PV array would produce power at 19 cents per kWh, because the more abundant and direct sunshine would make 20% more solar electricity over the same time period.

by the time their solar PV systems are halfway to their expected life of 25 years, 45 million Americans (roughly 1 in 6) would have cheaper electricity from solar if they installed right now at $3.50 per Watt.