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2. Solar updraft tower - Wikipedia

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   The solar updraft tower ( SUT) is a design concept for a renewable-energy power plant for generating electricity from low temperature solar heat. Sunshine heats the air beneath a very wide greenhouse-like roofed collector structure surrounding the central base of a very tall chimney tower. The resulting convection causes a hot air updraft in ...

3. Distributed generation - Wikipedia

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   Distributed generation from wind hybrid power systems combines wind power with other DER systems. One such example is the integration of wind turbines into solar hybrid power systems, as wind tends to complement solar because the peak operating times for each system occur at different times of the day and year.

4. Hybrid power - Wikipedia

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   Horizontal axis wind-turbine, combined with a solar panel on a lighting pylon at Weihai, Shandong province, China. Combined use of wind+solar systems results, in many places, in a smoother/cleaner power output since the resources are anti-correlated. Therefore, the combined use of wind and solar systems is crucial for a large-scale grid ...

5. Wind power - Wikipedia

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   e. Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly used to generate electricity. This article deals only with wind power for electricity generation. Today, wind power is generated almost completely with wind turbines, generally grouped into ...

6. Microgeneration - Wikipedia

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   a charge controller for charging the batteries or other energy storage. For converting DC battery power into AC as required for many appliances, or for feeding excess power into a commercial power grid: an inverter or grid-interactive inverter. The whole is also sometimes referred to as "power conditioning equipment".

7. Solar panel - Wikipedia

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   Solar panel. A solar panel is a device that converts sunlight into electricity by using photovoltaic (PV) cells. PV cells are made of materials that produce excited electrons when exposed to light. The electrons flow through a circuit and produce direct current (DC) electricity, which can be used to power various devices or be stored in ...