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Grid Parity for Solar in the UK… in 2013?

May 19th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Alternative Energy, Environmentally Friendly Design

A company called Solarcentury has written a report that says the UK will have solar grid parity by 2013, because PVs will be cheaper than fossil fuel. Given the rate of growth of PV collection power in the last six months, I think nothing is impossible - but they are strong words.The report says that consumers, not commercial markets, will be at the parity mark in 2013 - commercial will hit in 2018. An article at the Guardian also says that the consumer price for PV will be around 17p-18p per unit. This is about 7-8p than is being paid ... Read More»

Tags: grid parity, photovoltaics, PV, Solar, solarcentury, sustainable
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Acciona’s 46 MegaWatts in Portugal

January 18th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Alternative Energy, Environmentally Friendly Design, Solar

Do you know what "grid parity" means?When alternative energy sources and their generating infrastructure make so much electricity that they are at cost or cheaper than the cost of the electricity on the regular power grid, those alternative energy sources have achieved grid parity. This would be a wonderful thing - to have green technologies owning an equal share of the power grid. My wife and I used a company called Green Mountain Energy when we lived in Dallas, Texas - Green Mountain is a wind power company that adds it's percentage to the power grid. It wasn't quite a ... Read More»

Tags: Acciona, Green Mountain Energy, grid parity, Solar, solar power
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