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Alberta Solar Power coggle (Availability (Justin) (Might only be available…

- - - - Require energy to manufacture
        
        More energy to manufacture than other forms of energy generation
      - Sometimes use harmful chemicals
      - Have to mine materials
        
        Quartz
        
        Produced into electronic-grade silicon
        
        Involves heating it in a high-temperature furnace
        
        Reacting it to other chemicals
        
        Processed and cleaned
        
        Aluminum
        
        Copper
        
        Silver
        
        Coal
        
        Mined
        
        Cleaned
        
        Burned on a mass scale
      - habitat loss
      - water use
      - use of hazardous materials in manufacturing
- - - - 73,000 terawatts emitted by the sun every day, 10,000x what the daily global usage is
    - - Sun shines around the globe
      - Any country could become a potential energy producer
  - - - Only operates during the day
      - Can't operate in cloudy or snowy weather
        
        Won't get sun's UV rays in those conditions
    - - Improved in this department in recent years
      - Only options previously were bright blue cells, with a white-back sheet and a silver frame
      - Now, you can get all black solar panels with black-back sheets and frames to blend in to darker shingles
    - - Major issue
      - Installed for between 10,000 and 16,000 dollars pre-rebate
      - Solar panels aren't cost, they're an investment
    - - Lots of land degradation and habitat loss involved
      - Larger-scale PV systems can require from 3.5 to 10 acres per megawatt
      - CSP can require from 4 to 16.5 acres per megawatt
    - - Lots of rare materials needed
        
        Most of rare materials are byproducts of other processes
- - - - Interconnection approval from the WSP signed on or after April 15, 2017
      - Solar photovoltaic system must be grid connected in accordance with the Micro-Generation Regulation (AR27/2008)
      - System must not be eligible for the AMSP, AISP, Growing Forward On-Farm PV System program, or any other provincial solar incentive program
      - Must not have received an incentive for a solar PV system on the same parcel/property under this program or any other provincial solar incentive program
        
        Incentive based on site ID
      - Combined incentives from the government mustn't exceed 100% of eligible system cost
      - Must own or have long-term rights to the property on which you are installing solar electricity
      - System is designed and installed by a qualified installer and system components must meet the CSA's requirements for electrical safety or equivalent certification to applicable Canadian standards
      - When available funding is fully committed, applicants will be automatically placed on a waiting list in their order of a part one approval and any additional funds that become available will be distributed to systems on the waiting list queue
  - - - 53.3i hrs
    - - 46.8 hrs
    - - 44.6 hrs