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Amorphous silicon
Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is the non-crystalline form of silicon used for solar cells and thin-film transistors in LCDs.
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Cadmium telluride photovoltaics
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaics describes a photovoltaic (PV) technology that is based on the use of cadmium telluride, a thin semiconductor layer designed to absorb and convert sunlight into electricity.
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Concentrated solar power
Concentrated solar power (also called concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal, and CSP) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight, or solar thermal energy, onto a small area.
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Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells
A copper indium gallium selenide solar cell (or CIGS cell, sometimes CI(G)S or CIS cell) is a thin-film solar cell used to convert sunlight into electric power.
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Crystalline silicon
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) is the crystalline forms of silicon, either multicrystalline silicon (multi-Si) consisting of small crystals, or monocrystalline silicon (mono-Si), a continuous crystal.
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Deploying Renewables 2011
Deploying Renewables 2011: Best and Future Policy Practice is a 2011 book by the International Energy Agency.
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Distributed generation
Distributed generation, also distributed energy, on-site generation (OSG) or district/decentralized energy is electrical generation and storage performed by a variety of small, grid-connected devices referred to as distributed energy resources (DER).
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Duck curve
In commercial-scale electricity generation, the duck curve is a over the course of a day that shows the timing imbalance between peak demand and renewable energy production.
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Energy development
Energy development is the field of activities focused on obtaining sources of energy from natural resources.
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Index of solar energy articles
This is a list of solar energy topics.
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List of environmental history topics
This page has a list of articles related to environmental history, the study of human interaction with the natural world over time.
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List of photovoltaics companies
This is a list of notable photovoltaics (PV) companies.
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List of top international rankings by country
This list of top international rankings by country includes global-scale lists of countries with rankings (this list only contains sovereign states), sorted by country that is placed top or bottom in the respective ranking.
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Outline of energy
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to energy: Energy – in physics, this is an indirectly observed quantity often understood as the ability of a physical system to do work on other physical systems.
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Outline of solar energy
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to solar energy: Solar energy – radiant light and heat from the sun.
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Photovoltaic power station
A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, is a large-scale photovoltaic system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power into the electricity grid.
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Photovoltaic system
A photovoltaic system, also PV system or solar power system, is a power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics.
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Polycrystalline silicon
Polycrystalline silicon, also called polysilicon or poly-Si, is a high purity, polycrystalline form of silicon, used as a raw material by the solar photovoltaic and electronics industry.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
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Solar cell
A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell, is an electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon.
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Solar energy
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis.
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Solar lamp
A solar lamp also known as solar light or solar lantern, is a lighting system composed of an LED lamp, solar panels, battery, charge controller and there may also be an inverter.
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Solar panel
Photovoltaic solar panels absorb sunlight as a source of energy to generate electricity.
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Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1978
Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1978 is a United States statute authorizing the research and development of photovoltaic systems utilizing solar energy or sunlight as a source for electricity generation.
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Solar power
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), indirectly using concentrated solar power, or a combination.
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Solar power by country
Many nations have installed significant solar power capacity into their electrical grids to supplement or provide an alternative to conventional energy sources.
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Solar power in Australia
Solar power in Australia is a growing industry.
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Solar power in Belgium
Solar power in Belgium reached an installed capacity of 3,425 MW of power generating 2,945 GWh of electricity in 2016 (provisional estimates).
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Solar power in Bulgaria
Solar power in Bulgaria has expanded by 100 megawatts (MW) in 2011.
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Solar power in Canada
Historically, the main applications of solar energy technologies in Canada have been non-electric active solar system applications for space heating, water heating and drying crops and lumber.
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Solar power in China
China is the world's largest market for both photovoltaics and solar thermal energy.
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Solar power in Germany
Solar power in Germany consists almost exclusively of photovoltaics (PV) and accounted for an estimated 6.2 to 6.9 percent of the country's net-electricity generation in 2016.
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Solar power in India
Solar power in India is a fast developing industry.
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Solar power in Italy
Solar power in Italy increased rapidly in the last ten years, reaching an installed capacity that ranks fifth in the world.
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Solar power in Japan
Solar power in Japan has been expanding since the late 1990s.
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Solar power in Mexico
Solar power in Mexico has the potential to produce vast amounts of energy.
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Solar power in Portugal
At the end of 2013, Portugal had 277.9 MWp of photovoltaics and produced an estimated 437 GWh of electricity which supplied nearly 166 500 homes and saved approximately 107 074 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
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Solar power in Romania
Solar power in Romania had an installed capacity of 1,151 megawatt (MW) as of the end of 2013 – a more than 20 fold increase from 2012.
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Solar power in Switzerland
Solar power in Switzerland has been growing rapidly in recent years due to declining system costs and a feed-in tariff instituted by the Swiss government.
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Solar power in Taiwan
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Solar power in Thailand
Solar power in Thailand is targeted to reach 6,000 MW by 2036.
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Solar power in the Netherlands
Solar power in the Netherlands has an installed capacity of around 2,040 megawatt (MW) of photovoltaics as of the end of 2016.
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Solar power in the United States
Solar power in the United States includes utility-scale solar power plants as well as local distributed generation, mostly from rooftop photovoltaics.
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Swanson's law
Swanson's law is the observation that the price of solar photovoltaic modules tends to drop 20 percent for every doubling of cumulative shipped volume.
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Thin-film solar cell
A thin-film solar cell is a second generation solar cell that is made by depositing one or more thin layers, or thin film (TF) of photovoltaic material on a substrate, such as glass, plastic or metal.
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Timeline of solar cells
The timeline of solar cells began in the 19th century when it is observed that the sunlight striking certain materials generates detectable electric current.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics
