Solar Panel Cost Price Analysis – Advantages and Disadvantages
Solar panels are undeniably expensive. they cost from around 6,000 to install the smallest photovoltaic (electricity-generating) system, up to 20,000 for a very large household system. You can spend a lot more than this – farmers or large businesses may install hundreds of square metres of solar panels to reap the rewards of the government schemes on offer. Thermal systems are a lot cheaper to install, with prices ranging from about 3,000 to 5,000. Fortunately, there is little on-going cost with solar panels....
read moreHere comes the sun
You may think that solar panels are a big expense and so not for you, but if you’re planning to stay in your home for a long time, installing them can make sense financially, as well as being beneficial to the environment. There are two types of solar panel – ones that generate electricity (solar photovoltaics or PV),...
read moreAn Appeal to Your Wallet (and Sense of Humor)
Do you go weak at the knees when you see a picture of baby dolphins? Compost religiously? Ride your bike everywhere you go? In a twist on environmentally minded marketing, the resounding answer in a television ad campaign by the California-based home solar-power company Sunrun is: “We couldn’t care less whether you do or don’t. Solar panels will save you money.” On one level, the campaign is...
read moreLatin America Report: Work Starts on Chile's Largest Wind Farm
The $245 million El Arrayán project brings together AEI, Pattern Energy and Antofagasta Minerals. the project, which will use 50 Siemens 2.3-MW wind turbines, is expected to begin commercial operation in early 2014. The region is a hotbed of copper mining, and thus it’s become a lure for renewable energy developers who are eager to help the mining companies expand their business. Spanish company Ingenostrum is looking to build six solar plants worth...
read moreInnovator: Harness city’s wind
by SANDRA GUY sguy@suntimes.com may 4, 2012 5:08PM 23618898 Article Extras Updated: may 5, 2012 2:11AM Energy-renewal innovator Beth Thomas is passionate about the possibilities of expanding “green” energy in urban environments, and she sees Chicago as a gold mine. “We have been treating our environment like a trash can since the Industrial Revolution,” said the Hyde Park resident. “The only way to correct...
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