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 of a solar power plant depends on multiple aspects – but mainly on the capacity of the […]
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 plants today? And how much does battery storage cost?
In circumstances where solar power needs to be used […]
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 for solar power?
DNI (Direct Normal Irradiance) at a location is the amount of solar energy falling per […]
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. So what are these wafers, how are they made and how are solar cells made from […]
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 single junction solar cells, and how are they different from multi-junction solar cells?
The conventional solar cells […]
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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 one such junction. What are these multi-junction […]
Summary: Concentrating PV technology concentrates more sunlight onto a unit area of solar cells, resulting in much higher efficiency of sunlight conversion to electricity.
An interesting way to significantly increase the efficiency of solar cells is to concentrate the light that falls on them. How do these concentrating solar cells work, and by how much more can […]
You might have heard that solar power plants require significant amounts of land to generate power. How much area indeed is required for solar power plants?
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Area required by Solar power plants, be it rooftop or ground mounted is pretty significant. While solar […]
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 you and house for a very long time!
Watt is the fundamental unit of power. A watt-hour […]
Summary: Solar trackers enable to keep the solar panels normal to the incident sunlight, and hence enhance electricity generation significantly
Did you know that by changing the angle of solar panels frequently, you could generate much more electricity from the same panels? Trackers help you do these frequent changes.
Solar panels generate the most electricity if they […]
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