Do you know every day the sun sends 10,000 times more energy to Earth than is consumed by the human on that day?
Solar Power equipment is a pollution-free source of energy. Solar power doesn’t produce any toxic or radioactive waste. Photovoltaic cells convert solar energy into electrical energy. This electrical energy is stored in batteries to use when the sun is not in the sky, like with a solar lamp post that goes on at night with no wiring.
Solar power can be used anywhere with the proper solar power systems but is more cost effective in rural areas, where access to a grid or generating energy with diesel generator are more expensive than solar power.
Solar power technology, like solar water heating systems, solar street lights and solar powered LED lights, is even older than fossil fuel technology. The ancient Greek used passive solar heating to keep their homes warm as early as 1500 BC. There were solar hot water heating systems installed in North America as early as 1892.
The cost of solar power consists of:
• The initial installation cost of the solar equipment
• The interest rate invested money
The cost is soon recovered by savings on energy bills
Some of solar power’s benefits are:
• Solar power is renewable, reliable and clean energy
• Solar power creates employment
• Solar power is more economical than fuel energies
• Solar power helps to develop rural economies
