Sunday, May 19, 2013
As the price of PV continues to drop, solar energy becomes an attainable reality for more and more homeowners, businesses and investors. However, despite compelling economics, some potential buyers are ineligible for solar due to insu cient space or too much shading. Enter smart modules: featuring embedded intelligence, these modules increase system exibility,...
The solar industry got what it wanted over the last five years: a dramatic reduction in the cost of solar panels. In 2008 the panels for a typical house cost $16,000. Now these same panels can be purchased for less than $3,000. Equipment for a complete solar installation is quite affordable. Indeed, in Germany the price for an average rooftop system is about...
The quality of all system components and the inverter quality in particular play a crucial role for the longevity of large PV power plant projects. Only if inverters function reliably and safely during the entire life-span of a PV project maximum yields and minimum risk can be ensured for all project stakeholders. Worldwide applicability and first-class quality...
Renewable sources play an increasingly important role in producing sustainable energy and contribute a rapidly growing share of the world's energy needs. Whether at the financing, construction, handover or operational stage, the failure to appropriately identify, manage, control and transfer risk is one of the factors most likely to jeopardize a renewable energy...
Most Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software originated in the automotive industry. It started off as materials resources planning (MRP), and focused largely on inventory management. But as a power generation executive, you are not managing inventory as much as you are managing the capacity of a fixed asset over its lifecycle. That is why you need IFS Applications,...
The USSD Committee on Materials for Embankment Dams has prepared this White Paper on Materials for Embankment Dams. The paper provides an outline of important points that need to be recognized and understood when selecting material for use in embankment dams. It covers soil materials; rockfill materials; granular filters and drains; asphalt concrete as a water...
As fossil fuels grow scarce and increase in price and as the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions worsen, governments worldwide are creating new, more complex and more costly regulations, shorter deadlines and higher penalties for non-compliance. Energy utilities and ISOs have mandates to dramatically increase renewable energy usage on uncomfortably short...
Utilities the world over are on constant alert. Threats from natural and man-made crises abound: hurricanes, typhoons, wildfires, lightning strikes, extreme temperature, intense wind, floods, ice, local activism and terrorism. Add aging infrastructure, an aging workforce, systems that don't talk to each other, proprietary systems that don't integrate well and...
