SOLAR POWER  
     
 
Powering for long range deployments where power is not readily available & municipal wireless installations that save money & resources over the long term.

The solar revolution of the last two decades has made solar energy an increasingly powerful force in the energy arena. Solar Panels use arrays of solar photovoltaic cells to convert photons into usable electricity. With solar panels, we are provided with clean, renewable energy from the sun.

As we previously mentioned, solar panels collect solar radiation from the sun and actively convert that energy to electricity. The solar cells on these solar panels make use of the extremely small fraction of the sun's energy that passes through earth's atmosphere and strikes the cells on the solar collector. The efficiency of these solar panels, and the resultant energy produced is dependant on many climatic, geographic, and weather-related factors. Arid climates are ideal for solar panels, and they will produce more energy in areas where they are exposed to direct sunlight under clear skies. But even at optimal efficiency, solar panels only convert a
 
 
small percentage of the energy that strikes it into usable energy. The efficiency factors is in the teens for most solar cells. Advanced solar cells, like those used on the Voyager spacecraft, have much higher efficiency ratings, but are much too expensive to produce en masse for general purposes.
 
 

 

 

 

 
       

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