With solar panels gaining in popularity across the UK, the question that most people ask when exploring solar installations on their own property is where would the panels go? Not every house will be ...
Dec 13, 2011
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PV, Photovoltaics – PV Cells or photovoltaics are wafer thin layers made up of semi-conducting materials (normally silicon). Electrical charges will then be generated when that silicon gets light sh...
Oct 24, 2011
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Amorphous – An amorphous panel is a particular kind of PV cell. Unlike monocrystalline or multicrystalline cells (discussed in part two) amorphous panels would not be made using interconnected cells...
Oct 23, 2011
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We know what they do, but how exactly do solar panels do what they do? It’s all down to the photovoltaic cells that they contain in an array which are able to convert energy that comes from the su...
Oct 16, 2011
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Even though the feed in tariff and various other schemes have proven to be extremely successful in the UK in encouraging home owners to move over to solar energy, many people are still worried about t...
Sep 23, 2011
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In previous posts we have looked at what makes up a solar energy system and a photovoltaic array. In this post we’ll take a brief look at the different types and scales of solar energy systems.
The ...
Jul 20, 2011
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Photovoltaic systems (or PV systems) are solar energy systems that are able to use one or multiple solar panels for the purposes of converting light from the sun into energy and more specifically, ele...
Jul 20, 2011
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