Three core factors affect the sizing of your system: your electricity usage, space availability on your property, and your budget. YOUR ELECTRICITY USAGE Do you want to try to produce 100% of your power or some smaller percentage? While any excess production from month to month will carry over as
Year: 2014
A well-designed solar electric system has clear and unobstructed access to the sun for most of the day throughout the year. Siting a PV system correctly is critical in order to achieve maximum power production and thus maximum energy offset and financial return. Orientation and Tilt Optimal orientation for solar
A PV System includes: 1. PV ARRAY Multiple PV panels installed together are called a PV array. Mounting arrays to rooftops is most common, yet they can also be located on a pole, a ground mounted rack, parking area shade covers, window awnings, etc. The PV array produces Direct Current
The first solar cell was created in 1883. It was inefficient by today’s standards, converting only 1–2% of sunlight into electricity. The breakthrough in solar cell technology came in 1954 when researchers at Bell Laboratories stumbled across the photo voltaic (or PV) properties of silicon while experimenting with new transistor
Solar electric systems are safe, reliable, pollution free, and use a renewable source of energy—the sun. Most systems have no moving parts and are increasingly easy to install. The option of net metering, or interconnecting a customer generating system to the utility grid, makes solar electric systems more
THERMOSOLAR ENERGY: Thermosolar Energy is a technology for harnessing solar energy for heat (at low temperature); it is mainly used for the production of hot water in residential buildings, to heat water in swimming pools and for climatization plants and other application.THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY: Thermoelectric Energy: (Solar thermal power) is a
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC: POWER PLANT APPLICATIONS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC:
Photo voltaic is the most recognizable solar energy technology; it is the most versatile, simplest to install and cheapest to maintain and provides a highly valued product: “electricity“. Grid Connected System: This is the most popular type of solar Photo voltaic system; it is integrated with the electricity network and
Photo voltaic technology is a term used to describe the system that converts solar energy into usable power, generating electricity from sunlight. On the earth surface there is more than sufficient solar radiation to satisfy a vastly increased demand for solar power systems. On average, each square meter of land
The age during which convenient and abundant fossil energy resources were available to build new technologies and to support a sustained energy world transition is short.Renewable energy and methodologies have a clear role in future energy policy. Governments decided to develop aggressive long term actions that can accelerate the widespread
