There are two kinds of solar plants, PV, or Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal.
With a PV installation, you put out a bunch of panels, these panels are hooked to a device called an inverter, which changes DC current that the PV panels make to AC current that you use on the electrical grid.
A solar thermal plant uses mirrors to concentrate sun rays on a collector array that heats a working fluid. The working fluid drives a turbine that drives a generator/alternator which feeds the grid.
But at the simplest level, the home, most systems are PV. Home PV panels are 12 volt. In my own system I have 6 solar panels, Each is a 285 watt 12 volt PV panel. I have them set up in 2 3 panel strings. These two strings - each 855 watt. feed into the combiner box; Here, we attach the two strings in parallel and the 12 volts become 24 volts. I have a 24 volt system. This feeds into an inverter which converts DC to AC which is fed into the house.
The logic of an inverter is to feed excess electricity to ground OR to a charge controller. The charge controller senses the charge state of a battery, and when the charge state is low it takes the excess electricity and pumps it into the batter which is energy storage. When the panels can not keep up with demand, the batteries are used to compensate and the battery DC is used to feed the inverter.
During the day, the batteries charge, during the night, they discharge. In my system with average use, the batteries are charged by 11 AM and then go from bulk (collecting) to float (full), the excess power then going to ground, wasted. In my case I have a 4000 watt inverter and 4 deep cycle 6 volt batteries in series.
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1) You don't need to charge solar panels. They merely convert light to electricity.
2) They don't wear out. After 20-25 years they will still produce 80% of the electricity they did.
3) Batteries maintained properly and not deeply discharged will last 10-15 years.
4) The break even point is 4-5 years in most installations.
A home use for solar thermal is solar water heater. These are required in Israel and Mexico. They save vast amounts of power that the grid does not have to supply.
3 to 5 years
define green....... anything like a solar panel or a windmill...yes. But like a power plant no it costs way to much to burn or incinerate anything to make energy...unless you consider a nuclear power plant green.
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solar power from a concentrated solar power plant costs the same as electric from a fossil fuel pant. if you install home photovoltaic solar panels, it will cost up to $25,000. after installation, there is little maintenance and the panels will last over 30 years.
It increases the supply of electricity from alternative sources
water and solar energy
solar
A Plant., photosynthetic autotroph .
It allows the plant to Photosynthesize to make its own food.
There are many different jobs available in the solar energy industry. Anything from scientific research, to solar power engineering, to manufacturing the solar power, working at a solar power plant, development of the plant, construction of the plant, plant operations, solar photovolataic installers, panel installation and maintenance and supporting occupations.
Chloroplasts are used to convert solar radiation into energy for the plant... This means they can make their own food. Animals do not do this.
from a plant
the solar power plant generates electricity
the solar power plant generates electricity
No plant organelle produces solar energy. Only the sun produces solar energy.
Solar Energy Generating Systems is currently the largest operational solar power plant in the world. It is located in the Mojave Desert of California, US.
They all use solar energy