Hi again,
Another one of my learning posts, to help me understand more about the area of solar power – if you took physics at school then this page is probably covering something you learnt when you were 10!
Units of used when measuring electricity:
The main unit of power in any area of electrical power is the [...]

This story is a couple of months old, but as I was reading about the woes of General Motors, I came across this great story about their use of solar power. The monolith that is GM is one of the leading users of renewable energy sources in the US, but just to put this into [...]

Hey everyone, in this post I am going to define one of the most commonly thrown around technical terms of solar power – photovoltaics or PV.
Photovoltaics can simply be defined as “the direct conversion of light into electricity”. And according to Wikipedia the term “photovoltaic” comes from the Greek word φῶς (phōs) which means [...]

Hi again, ok, to many of you seasoned users or researchers into solar power I’m likely going over stuff you already know, and probably missing out a lot too. Well that’s ok, as this blog is representing my journey of understanding in the arena of renewable energy, particularly solar.  If you are a newbie too [...]

World’s Second Biggest Solar Farm Opens
Lieberose Solar Farm is Germany’s biggest solar farm. It is a joint venture between Germany based juwi Group and the American First Solar inc. The biggest solar farm (as of August 2009, is the Olmedilla Park in Spain with an output of 60 Megawatts per year)
The announcement was after the [...]

History of Solar Power Part 2…..
Bell Labs developed the first silicon solar cell in 1953 – the first to generate measurable electric current. By 1956, this fantastic new technology to generate electricity was costing about $300 per Watt (compared with a rough cost now of $5 per Watt).
It wasn’t until the 70s and the Oil [...]

The title of this post is a little rubbish as obviously, solar power has been around for as long as the sun, and for that matter, if you want to be pedantic, any sun I suppose (although I doubt you’d get much of a charge on your solar heating system from a star several million [...]

Hi there everybody and welcome to my new site, all about Solar Panels For Homes (amongst other places). These pages will document my journey of researching solar power, what’s available out there to buy or build yourself, what some of the technology behind solar power is and how we can use it in our homes.
I [...]