Solar Energy Essay#1

Introduction

The sun is the main source of energy on the planet earth and it can be found everywhere on earth. From this source human created the fire a thousand years ago. However, now there are many things that people uses from this source such as electricity. In this day there are many source that people use today to generate electricity, but many people feel that when others forms of energy are exhausted or become too environmentally costly, solar power will replace them. Solar power or solar energy is the transformation of sunlight into electricity. Therefore, solar power is the most important source of renewable energy that the people use today. As a result of this, there are many countries that went for the exploitation of solar energy as one of the most important sources of alternative energy than oil and gas. There are two ways to convert solar energy into electrical either directly using photovoltaic (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power. For example the countries which are using concentrated power are Spain and United States. While the other country which is using photovoltaic is India.

History

The first person who discovered the idea to create electricity from solar energy was Alexandre Edmond Becquerel. In 1839 this French scientist built the world’s first photovoltaic panel at the young age of 19.

 

Development

There are many countries that faced difficulties of using traditional energy sources from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas and the most important problems they faced from using fossil fuel are increasing prices of fossil fuel and the worst effects of global climate change like increased average temperatures. As a consequence, there are many countries and companies developing renewable energy sources and new technologies to generate electricity as opposed to fossil fuel; for example, renewable energy sources such as solar power, biomass, geothermal and hydroelectric. Despite the diversity of renewable energy sources, the most important source is solar energy for generating electricity. There are many benefits of using solar power. One of the main advantages of solar energy is environment friendly energy because the lack of pollution and clean renewable when generating electricity. Moreover, solar energy can reduce dependence on fossil fuels and the importance of preserving future generations. Also it can be used every day and everywhere in world and the Arab region has the highest solar radiation in the world.

Modern developments

The Shams site is the world’s largest solar power plant to generate electricity and the price of this is $ 600 million to generate electricity in more than 20,000 houses in the UAE (wam. 2013). Shams is located in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi and it will produce 100 MW of power to generate electricity to all houses on the United Arab Emirates. His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan said during his inauguration at Shams 1 concentrated solar power plant in Western Region Abu Dhabi, “An outstanding achievement’ in terms of the UAE’s vision to diversify its economy and sources of energy” (wam. 2013). In addition the President said, “Expanding our leadership into renewable sources of power demonstrates the commitment of the United Arab Emirates to maintaining its position as a major provider of energy” (ibid.). The idea for ​​the development of this project is to reduce the CO2 emissions and to diversify the economy and energy sources.

Conclusion

In conclusion, however, the cost of production of kilos / h from using solar energy is still high but this type of electrical power is the candidate is one of the most important sources of relatively cheap energy in the future. We should not be surprised in the future if we saw Shams Abu Dhabi illuminate many cities and occupy public facilities and economic institutions in other countries.

 

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