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Success with small scale solar energy and feed-in tariffs

“It might not seem like a lot if you look at one unit, but it’s like looking at ants,” ….. “If you look at one at a time, they seem tiny, but they build up into a large population.”

Green energy from city skylines, nwi.com, 15 May 11, While large wind and solar farms catch grief from nearby residents, engineers and designers have created ways to incorporate renewable energy systems into city skylines, including Chicago’s.

Across the United States, renewable energy developers are supplementing energy grids more discreetly, more affordably and on an urban-friendly scale.In New Jersey, Petra Solar Inc. and Public Service Electric and Gas Co., the garden state’s largest utility, have been working together to install 200,000 solar panels on neighborhood telephone poles, and along highways and parking structures.

“It might not seem like a lot if you look at one unit, but it’s like looking at ants,” said John Enslin, chief technology officer of Petra Solar. “If you look at one at a time, they seem tiny, but they build up into a large population. “The entire project produces 40 megawatts of power each hour for four to five hours a day, or 58,400 megawatt-hours per year, according to Enslin.The installation is the largest “distributed” or decentralized solar electric project being deployed in the world today, he said…..Green energy from city skylines

May 16, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | decentralised, USA