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What is Solar Power?

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Miguel Hart
What is Solar Power?

WHY RENEWABLE ENERGY?

As concerns about rising fossil fuel prices, energy security, and climate change increase, renewable energy must play a key role in producing clean and inexhaustible energy to supply the world's growing demand for electricity, heat, and transportation fuel.

There are little or no ongoing fuel costs associated with generating electricity from renewable sources.

Therefore, governments, industry, and private people worldwide are looking to renewable resources such as wind, water, and solar to hedge against both the environmental and economic price of obtaining energy by burning fossil fuels.

In the long term, renewable resources will satisfy a high proportion of our energy at a known cost that is not susceptible to the vagaries of fossil fuel supply and demand and without the catastrophic environmental effect.

How is Solar Power Generated?

Solar panels function using Photovoltaic technology (PV), which uses the energy from the Sun to produce electrical power.

A Sun's ray hits a PV cell and could be reflected, absorbed, or pass right through the cell. The absorbed beam generates electricity.

The energy of the absorbed ray is transferred into electrons in the atoms of the PV cell. With their now increased energy levels, these electrons escape from their regular positions in the bits of the semiconducting PV material and become part of the electrical flow, or current, in an electrical circuit. This electricity can then be used to electrical power equipment or fed into a more extensive electrical grid system.

PV systems are easy to maintain and only require visual checks and inverter servicing to keep them in a reasonable operational condition.

PV systems generate power in all types of weather, and on partly cloudy days, they can produce as much as 80% of their potential energy. There are many different types of PV panels, each of which performs differently in other weather conditions. SolarGuru ensures that the optimal solution is found for each of its sites.

The manufacturers test solar panels for hail impact, high wind, and freeze-thaw cycles representing year-round weather conditions. Consequently, PV systems no more susceptible to weather-related damage than any other type of energy production system.

The risks of systems failure or inefficient operation are so low that manufacturers provide guarantees of performance. We can be sure that each panel operates at no less than 80% of its peak performance even after 25 years of operation.

Top Solar Energy Provider in USA

There are many companies provide the solar energy. But in this list I have put affordable companies. All companies provide our service in USA local areas. Find your solar installer near me below the list.

SolarGuru Energy LLC. is the cheapest service provider in USA Local areas.  It’s a company around 30 years old solar service provider. SolarGuru achieves the best solar companies in San Diego Award last year. 3000+ happy clients archive the excellent facilities and 24/7 Call Supports.

First Solar, Inc. is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and was founded in 1999. They have developed and constructed many of the world’s largest grid-connected solar power plants.

NextEra Energy was founded in 1925 and is based in Juno Beach, Flordia. Along with supplying solar panels, NextEra Energy owns two electric companies in Florida: Florida Power & Light Company and Gulf Power Company.

Ormat Technologies is headquartered in Reno, NV. Founded in 1965, the company designs, builds, and supplies power generating equipment for geothermal and recovered energy power plants.

SolarEdge Technologies’s US headquarters are in Tuscon Arizona. It was founded in 2006 and builds and distributes equipment and technology for photovoltaic arrays.

Suniva Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia. They are a manufacturer of high-efficiency, cost-competitive PV solar cells, solar panels, and modules.

Global Solar Energy, Inc. is based in Tuscon, Arizona. It was founded in 1996. They manufacture of thin-film CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide) solar solutions. Their solar panels are used for commercial, residential, off-grid and mobile applications.

Trina Solar’s US headquarters are in San Jose, California. The company was founded in 1997 and develops and produces ingots, wafers, solar cells, and solar modules

Real Goods Solar is a residential solar installation company founded in 1978 and based in Fresno, California. They supply solar panels and solar shingles.

GreenBrilliance is headquartered in Sterling, Virginia. Founded in 2007, they supply solar panel systems to residential and commercial buildings and install solar power electrical systems.

SunPower Corp was founded in 1985 and is based in San Jose, California. They supply solar panels for residential and commercial applications.

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