Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy

Environmental impacts from the solar energy technologies

Solar energy systems (photovoltaics, solar thermal, solar power) provide significant environmental benefits in comparison to the conventional energy sources, thus contributing, to the sustainable development of human activities. Sometimes however, their wide scale deployment has to face potential negative environmental implications. These potential problems seem to be a strong barrier for a fur...

environmental impacts of urban utility tunnel construction (case study: urban utility tunnel district 22 of tehran)

urban facilities are necessary components of cities. in all grown and developed cities of the world there are tremendous network of facilities such as water and electric ties, water sewage drainage, water piping and gas piping. that has not been installed in proper depth underground and locations and with growing of the cities and consumption of population. they need to be replaced by excavatin...

Environmental Impacts of Wind - Energy Projects

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES: POTENTIAL FOR INPUT-OUTPUT AND SUPPLY-CHAIN ANALYSES IN IRAN

Energy Storage Technologies for Utility Scale Intermittent Renewable Energy Systems

In current conventional utility systems, fossil fuel or nuclear power plants must back up intermittent renewable electricity generators if the utility grid is to have acceptable reliability. For low levels of intermittent power, this can be achieved without difficulty or added expense. For high levels this reliance on other generators becomes explicit and increasingly expensive, and transmissio...