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BC Hydro - Solar power for your B.C. business: an update
http://www.bchydro.com/news/articles/conservation/solar_bcbusinesses.html
BC Hydro recently had an inquiry from a business group about how they might apply solar power in lodging and campground-based businesses.
Photovoltaic technologies convert sunlight directly into electricity.
When sunlight strikes the semiconductor surface of the photovoltaic cell, an electrical current is created that can be captured and harnessed.
An emerging approach to producing photovoltaic cells that shows great promise is thin film photovoltaics, where a relatively thin layer of semiconductor is deposited on a low-cost material such as glass or plastic.
British Columbia has a moderate average annual solar resource, with nearly three times the energy available in July and August compared to December and January.
Over the year, a one-kW PV system located in Vancouver will generate approximately 1,000 kWh.
Northwest B.C. has the poorest solar resource, where one kW of installed photovoltaic will generate between 800 to 900 kWh per year.
Photovoltaic systems can be viable and economic in B.C. for off-grid applications to support residential loads in cottages and remote communities, and for non-domestic loads that are not connected to the B.C. grid, such as lighting in park areas distant from the distribution system.
While photovoltaics are still relatively new in B.C., solar hot water is catching on fast.
This technology uses an array of pipes to capture heat energy from the sun (instead of translating solar energy into electricity).
The heat can be used for domestic heating, through radiant heat systems, and/or for domestic hot water.
For additional information on financial incentives for industrial, commercial and institutional entities in B.C., visit Energy Savings Plan.
environment3929.pdf
http://www.bchydro.com/etc/medialib/internet/documents/environment/pdf/green_energy_study_wind.Par.0001.File.greenenergystudy-wind.pdf
energy, small-scale wind, Hydro, cost, Mainland, Green Energy Study,
installing, power, technology, solar, BIPV, residents, electricity,
materials.
This report was prepared by BCIT solely for internal use by BC Hydro.
The solar energy resource in British Columbia is characterized by large
variation between summer and winter.
Part of the cost of the photovoltaic system is offset by the cost of
the material replaced.
BIPV products are high quality construction materials with warranties
that match the lifespan of the solar cells.
Residential BIPV products are limited mainly to roofing materials as
the roof presents the greatest surface area on most residential buildings
suitable for PV.
The most popular approach to BIPV roofing incorporates solar cells into
conventional roofing products such as tiles or metal roofing.
News Release: YVR Becomes Power "Smarter" with new Solar
Panels
energy, airport, solar panels, Airport Authority, Power Smart, YVR,
Hydro, Vancouver International Airport, installation, energy reduction,
Canadian, engineering, customers, heating system.
RICHMOND - Vancouver International Airport Authority has installed
the largest solar powered hot water heating system in British Columbia.
The 100 solar panels have been installed on the roof of the domestic
terminal building, and will help to heat an average of 800 gallons of
hot water at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) each day.
Over the past year, Vancouver International Airport Authority and BC
Hydro have worked in tandem to reduce energy consumption and energy
costs at YVR.
The savings associated with the installation of the solar panel heating
system will add to the nearly $2 million saved to-date through various
Power Smart and energy reduction initiatives already put in place at
the airport.
environment3927.pdf
http://www.bchydro.com/etc/medialib/internet/documents/environment/pdf/green_energy_study.Par.0001.File.greenenergystudy-summary.pdf
energy, resources, costs, hydro, British Columbia, production, mainland,
technology, Alternative Energy Division, capacity, wind, electricity,
solar, power.
This report was prepared solely for internal purposes.
BC Hydro is exploring the potential for green energy---that is, energy
generated from renewable resources through licensable and environmentally
and socially responsible projects---to contribute to meeting future
demand for electricity in British Columbia.
A potential project for any of these resources would need to be reviewed
to determine whether it meets BC Hydro's Green Energy Criteria.
All projects for these resources have the potential to create GHG credits
and to be considered green energy projects under BC Hydro's definition.
Summary: Wind energy has not yet been developed at a large scale in
B.C., and BC Hydro has focused much effort in the last few years on
exploring and enabling this resource.
Pulfrey, carbon nanotube, Electronics, transistors, engineering,
modeling, John, IEEE, bipolar, semiconductor devices, Castro, carbon
nanotube FETs, compact models, Proc.
David L. Pulfrey Professor of Electrical Engineering
His research area is semiconductor device modeling, presently with emphasis
on the development of physical and predictive models for carbon nanotube
field-effect transistors.
He has published over 100 refereed articles on the topics of: electrical
breakdown in thin dielectrics; the preparation and properties of plasma-anodized
thin oxide films; the analysis and fabrication of surface junction solar
cells; the modeling and reliability of high-gain polysilicon-emitter
transistors; the analysis of silicon MIS tunnel junction structures
and related devices; circuit techniques and algorithmic macrocell generation
for CMOS VLSI; the compact modeling of bipolar heterostructures; carbon
nanotube transistor physics and modeling.
Dr. Pulfrey was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2000 for contributions
to the modeling of heterojunction bipolar semiconductor devices, and
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2003 for contributions
to teaching and research in microelectronics.
Full-quantum models for carbon nanotube transistors (David John, Ph.D.
candidate).
Compact models for carbon nanotube transistors (Leonardo Castro, Ph.D.
candidate).
Prof. José R. Martí, UBC
power, techniques, simulation, Electronics, transformers, control,
student, distributed generation, network partitioning techniques, PC-cluster
architectures, OVNI, real-time, Engineering, IEEE.
Dr. Martí's Research Group is a world leader in the development
of models and solution techniques for fast transient circuit solutions
of large systems, particularly in connection with the Electromagnetic
Transients Program EMTP.
The group has extended the basic EMTP solution techniques to very fast
Real-Time simulation.
Our Power System Simulator OVNI uses a matched software (MATE) and hardware
architecture (PC-Cluster) to achieve very fast performance for systems
of unlimited size using off-the-shelf Pentium-class personal computers.
Together with other members of the Power Systems Group and the Power
Electronics Group, we are studying the coordinated operation and control
of local distributed generation resources (LDR's), including microturbines,
fuel cells, solar, and wind generators, sharing resources with each
other and with the existing power grid.
p16.pdf
http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-9/iss-2/p16.pdf
solar, technologies, solar cells, energy, panels, silicon, production,
electricity, thin-film, efficiency, Shell Solar, amorphous silicon,
crystalline-silicon, solar-energy.
Energy from the sun---available everywhere, for every-body---has
motivated research on solar-energy technologies for about three decades.
Most photovoltaic (PV) solar technologies rely on semiconductor-grade
crystalline-silicon wafers, which are expensive to produce compared
with energy from fossil fuel sources.
a restructuring meant to make the company more competitive.
The next month, BP Solar (Linthicum, MD) decided to close down production
of its thin-film amorphous silicon and cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar
panels to focus on crys-talline-silicon technologies.
Current applications of PV solar panels include providing power to spacecraft
and isolated villages in developing countries, solar-energy systems
in homes and buildings in Western countries (Figure 1), and even powering
the lamps of remote lighthouses.
Laboratories first demonstrated silicon solar cells in 1954, and most
PV systems today use mono- or multicrystalline silicon as the semiconducting
material.
Mott Electric Solar Energy
electricity, Technology, Photovoltaics, energy, solar, BIPV, PEARL,
integration, electricity demand, British Columbia, BIPV demonstration
projects, building envelope, combining energy production, cost.
The most western province of Canada, British Columbia, has benefited
for years from an inexpensive supply of hydroelectric power generation.
However, due to the environmental disruption of large-scale hydro electricity,
much of the new electricity demand is expected to be met with combined
cycle natural gas-fired generation.
In order to meet future electricity demand and maintain low green house
gas emissions, the potential of renewable energy sources and their integration
into the existing electricity supply network must be explored.
Recognizing that Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) systems reduce
the cost of solar electricity by combining energy production with other
functions of the building envelope, PEARL embarked on several BIPV demonstration
projects.
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