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What is Solar Power?

What are solar cells, and how do they work? Find out more about solar power - and learn how this renewable resource harnesses the power of the sun into usable energy.

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Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering

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Solar energy Renewable energy sources Photovoltaic power generation

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How do solar panels work?

The Earth intercepts a lot of solar power: 173,000 terawatts. That’s 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. So is it possible that one day the world could be completely reliant on solar energy? Richard Komp examines how solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy.

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Building Services Engineering and Environmental Engineering

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Renewable energy sources Solar energy Photovoltaic power generation

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Fundamentals of Photovoltaics

Fundamentals of photoelectric conversion: charge excitation, conduction, separation, and collection. Lectures cover commercial and emerging photovoltaic technologies and cross-cutting themes, including conversion efficiencies, loss mechanisms, characterization, manufacturing, systems, reliability, life-cycle analysis, risk analysis, and technology evolution in the context of markets, policies, society, and environment.

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Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering

Keywords:

Photovoltaic cells Photovoltaic power systems Photovoltaic power generation

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