Summary: A solar PV power plant generates between 3-5 kWh (units) per kW per day, depending on the solar radiation at the location. How much electricity can a solar power plant generate? What factors does this generation depend on? Output…
Battery Storage – Making Solar Power Stable
Summary: How can you use solar power when there is no sunlight? By storing the power generated during sunshine hours in batteries. Does solar power need battery storage? If yes, under what circumstances? What types of batteries are used for solar power…
DNI – Direct Normal Irradiance
Summary: DNI is a measure of sunlight availability at a location. Did you know that Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) is one of the most important factors for successful solar power generation? What is DNI, and why is it so important…
Silicon Wafer – The Chip that is Healthy and Gives You Power
Summary: Silicon cells are made from silicon wafers. Silicon wafers are in turn formed from polysilicon ingots. You surely would have heard about solar cells. But did you know that the crystalline solar cells come from silicon wafers? Yes, wafers.…
Single Junction Solar Cells – The Plain and Simple Solar Cell Technology
Summary: Single junction solar cells have just one p-n junction, as against multi-junction solar cells, which have more than one p-n junction Solar cells generate electricity owing to the presence of p-n junctions. What is a p-n junction, what are…
Multi-junction Solar Cells – More Junctions, More Power
Summary: Some solar cells have more than one p-n junction. Multi-junction cells with more than one p-n junction have much higher efficiency than single-junction cells. Conventional solar cells are single p-n junction solar cells. But there are solar cells with more than…
Area Required for Solar PV Power Plants
Summary: 1 kW of solar panels require approximately 100 sqft, or 10 sqm., when used on rooftops and in small ground mounted installations. You might have heard that solar power plants require significant amounts of land to generate power. How…
kWh – Kilowatt Hour – A Unit of Electricity
Summary: kWh is the abbreviation for Kilo Watt Hours. A kWh is the basic unit of electricity used worldwide. Have you heard of the term kWh before? No? You know what, this is a term that has been close to…