Systems
This solar powered system is able to heat water that enters people's homes
What is a solar water heater system?
The country is the largest producer of solar energy and has the most installed solar capacity.
What is China?
Most solar panels are made using this kind of semiconductor.
What is Silicon?
The average cost to produce conventional coal (in kWh).
what is around 9 cents per kilowatt hour?
This form of renewable energy has the fastest annual percentage growth in electricity generated and nameplate capacity.
What is solar energy?
This device can automatically follow the sun's position across the sky, minimizing the angle of incidence between sunlight and the surface of a solar panel.
This state has the most amount of installed solar capacity.
What is California?
Solar panels are able to convert sunlight energy into electrical energy due to this observed phenomenon?
What is the photovoltaic effect (photoelectric effect is also acceptable)
The average cost of a solar power plant to produce one 1 kWh of electricity.
What is 18 cents?
This unit is equal to 1E6 Watts
What is MW?
Solar panels and crops share sunlight and land to reduce stress upon both systems.
What is agrivoltaics?
Mounted solar panels generally face this cardinal direction.
What is south?
The region of space between the valence band and the conduction band of semiconductors and insulators
What is a band gap?
Average capital investment(maintenance and installation) for solar power per watt?
what is around 19 cents per kilowatt hour?
What is the capacity factor for solar energy (as a percentage)?
This type of rechargeable battery can store electricity generated by a PV cell (for a short period of time)
What is a lithium ion battery?
CIGS is a semiconductor made up of these four elements.
What is Copper, Indium, Gallium, and Selenide?
Federal and local governments influences the costs of installation of solar power through these actions.
What are subsidies and mandates?
This term describes when the cost of alternative energy is equal to or less than the electricity generated by fossil fuels.
What is grid parity?
This group of technology concentrates sunlight onto a receiver, which goes on to produce steam in a heat exchanger.
What is concentrated solar power?
The amount of solar radiation reaching a given surface area is defined as
What is insolation?
This limit determines the maximum theoretical efficiency for single junction solar cells.
What is the Shockley-Queisser Limit? (detailed balance limit is acceptable)
The costs of constructing long-distance transmission lines to deliver solar power to high demand areas
What is $13.7 billion?
Solar power accounts for this percentage of America’s electricity generation.
what is 2.3%