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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4948)	10/29/2006 5:05:22 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24212

Here's another way of looking at NYC: Every two days, more energy falls on New York State from the sun's rays than the total amount of energy consumed by the state all year (Perez, 2002). Each square foot of New York City receives the equivalent of 160 kWh of sunlight per year. This solar energy could be converted into over 125 thousand gigawatt-hours of electricity, or more than 2.5 times the city's 2005 demand (Perez, 2001). The challenge for New York City is therefore not whether there is enough sunlight to power the city, but how to best capture and use the city's solar energy resource. According to recent estimates, there is enough commercial and residential roof space to host between 8,500 MW and 15,700 MW of photovoltaic (PV) installations within the New York City area (Chaudhari et al., 2005; Plunkett et al., 2003b). If the correct policy incentives were put in place and market barriers were removed, a recent report prepared for NYSERDA estimates that 7,736 MW of PV could be installed within New York City by 2023 Source: CUNY (pdf) And that's just within NYC! peakguy on Saturday October 28, 2006 at 2:04 PM EST nyc.theoildrum.com