Solar Power Making Green Power

One of the most known options to save pollution and to promote green energy is solar energy. With increasing population Power requirement of users has led to more power plants. Thermal power plants have advantage of getting raw material easily available but at a cost of massive pollution in the environment. Hydel power plants are just a backup to the large thermal power producers or for a small city. Solar energy has turned to be a game changer in the power plant sector. Solar power has become more acquainting to the public .

Government is promoting solar power by making solar power plants at all the government buildings ,colonies for power consumption. Street lights are using solar power and the most used form of solar energy is rooftop solar power plant. Nowadays rooftop solar power generation is trending. Rooftop solar power plants can be used for office as well as for home. Solar power plants for home do require user attention for more awareness in this field. Rooftop Solar power plant can be grid connected or off grid power plants.

 Usually grid connected or on Grid solar power plant are mostly commissioned in industries or such that it add up to the power capacity of the country . Off grid solar energy plants are mostly fitted on houses rooftop. This renewable source of energy is the boon to mother earth as it has low maintenance cost and 90% energy conversion.

                                                                         

SOLAR PV POWER PROJECT INDIA

                                                                                      The energy conversion from sunlight to electricity through photo voltaic is called as solar energy. Photo voltaic are silicon cells made of silicon alloys . There are two types of PV cells a) mono crystalline cells b) thin film  solar panel out of which former is more efficient but more expensive.

There are many types of solar power generation methods:

• ·       Parabolic trough
• ·       Linear Fresnel reflector systems
• ·       Solar power towers
• ·       Solar pond

These are the effective methods by which solar power can be generated. Let us know a little briefs about each of them.

Parabolic Trough:-

Sun lights are too diffused to be concentrated on a single point so as to use that heat for any application like cooking water heating or here we can say  to produce steam for power generation. Yes! Power Generation just like in a thermal power plant. Check out an the giph .

Linear Fresnel reflector systems

They are thin, flat mirror strips that are used to concentrate sunlight to tubes through which fluid is pumped.

Solar Power Towers

It comprises of a setup that has an array of large, sun-tracking mirrors known as heliostats that focus sunlight on a receiver at the top of a tower. In this receiver, a fluid is heated and used to generate steam.

Wait! Wait! Wait! don’t run away let me put an image to make it clear and also a layman definition .

Actually there is a long tower at a height and numerous mirrors below it that concentrate sunlight on that tower to heat the fluid to run the turbine and that runs the generator to produce electricity.