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2. Cadmium telluride photovoltaics - Wikipedia

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   Recent installations of large First Solar CdTe PV systems were claimed to be competitive with other forms of solar energy: First Solar's 290-megawatt (MW) Agua Caliente project in Arizona is one of the largest photovoltaic power station ever built. Agua Caliente features First Solar's plant control, forecasting and energy scheduling ...

3. Solar panel - Wikipedia

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   Solar panels are also known as solar cell panels, solar electric panels, or PV modules. Solar panels are usually arranged in groups called arrays or systems . A photovoltaic system consists of one or more solar panels, an inverter that converts DC electricity to alternating current (AC) electricity, and sometimes other components such as ...

4. Photovoltaics - Wikipedia

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   A photovoltaic system, or solar PV system is a power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics. It consists of an arrangement of several components, including solar panels to absorb and directly convert sunlight into electricity, a solar inverter to change the electric current from DC to AC, as well as mounting ...

5. Solar fuel - Wikipedia

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   The solar cells/panels can be placed in direct contact with the electrolyzer(s), which can bring advantages in terms of system compactness and thermal management of both technologies, [32] or separately for instance by placing the PV outdoors exposed to sunlight and the EC systems protected indoors.

6. Solar energy - Wikipedia

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   Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Solar panels use the photovoltaic effect to convert light into an electric current. [63] Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and solar ...

7. Solar cell - Wikipedia

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   By the 1960s, solar cells were (and still are) the main power source for most Earth orbiting satellites and a number of probes into the solar system, since they offered the best power-to-weight ratio. However, this success was possible because in the space application, power system costs could be high, because space users had few other power ...