ENS6139: Solar Panel Energy - Feasibility, Sustainability and Ethics

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of solar panel energy, starting with an introduction to its feasibility and sustainability. It discusses the availability of land, energy yield, potential designs, infrastructure capacities, project financing, and environmental impact. The presentation highlights the economic, social, and environmental benefits of solar energy, including its potential to create new revenue streams, deliver energy independence, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It also touches upon the history of solar cell development, from the discovery of the photovoltaic effect to modern innovations like Tesla batteries and solar-powered airplanes. The presentation further examines the ethics surrounding solar energy, emphasizing technical feasibility, foreseeable consequences, economic results, and adherence to ethical principles. Finally, it addresses infrastructure, maintenance, and project planning and management, stressing the importance of consistent efficiency, sustainability, and effective project oversight. Desklib provides past papers and solved assignments for students to enhance their learning experience.

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SOLAR PANEL ENERGY
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INTRODUCTION
Solar energy is light and heat obtained from the sun. This is
achieved through technologies such as solar thermal energy,
artificial photosynthesis, solar architecture and solar thermal
energy. This is the most eco friendly source of energy in the
whole world. Solar panel energy is used commercially and
residentially all over the world.
DEVELOPMENT
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HISTORY
, Solar cells were developed in 1876 by W.G. Adams with his
student who was a French. Alexandre Edmond Bacquerel
discovered the photovoltaic effect through an electrode in a
conducive solution after exposing it to light in 1839.
2006 – New world record was set in solar cell development
technology. The new solar cell technology developed breaks the
“40 Percent Efficient” Sunlight-to-Electricity Barrier.
2010 – The United States President Barack Obama orders
installation of additional solar panels and some water heater solar
at the white house.
2007 – The Google solar panel project begins its operation
2016 - First Solar Company says it has converted 22.1 percent
of the energy in sunlight into electricity by using experimental
cells made from cadmium telluride.
PROJECT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
FEASIBILITY STUDY
SUSTAINABILITY ETHICS
INNOVATION
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EFFICIENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY
INFRASTUCTURE AND MAINTENANCE
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Environmental impacts from the solar energy
technologies.
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Solar panel energy has become one of the major
technological developments in the energy sector. The
year to year transformation of the solar energy panel
has the energy industry in different ways like provision
of power where electricity can’t be accessed. Solar
panels have been updated across the years to
enhance efficiency to achieve the energy from the
sun.
The solar panel project starts from the initialization and
ends with closing of the project in which project manager
has the role to complete feasible study, planning,
designing, construction and commissioning. Project is
managed and budget is sanctioned during the project
planning and design whereas constructors and suppliers
are considered for the successful project completion.
Feasibility study
Availability of land for the project
Speed and energy yield of solar in that location
Potential design and manufacturers for the solar panels
Capacities in infrastructure
Project financing and schedules
Impacts of environment and community along with risk assessment
Sustainability Issues
Economic
It can reveal new source for property taxation and income for rural
areas in location
Cost effective and fuel free electricity can be developed without the
use off transportation of fuel from one location to another.
Social
It can be used to deliver energy independency and good domestic
potential as people can produce and use the electricity for their
houses
Overall independency for fuel can be increased.
Environmental
It has no impacts on environment as other energy sources might
have and helps to deliver green and clean conditions.
There is no production of gases that can empower greenhouse
impacts.
Most solar generators can convert up to 23 percent of
sunlight into electricity. Although some companies such
as Ripasso Energy claim they can convert 30 to34
percentage of the sun energy into power contraption.
Elon Musk is an entrepreneur who recently unveiled a
revolutionary suite of Tesla batteries that he says could
"fundamentally change the way the world uses energy"
and get us off dirty fossil fuels. This tesla batteries can
be found at different stores worldwideIn the air and on
the road, solar technology is going the distance.
Currently, the Solar Impulse 2, the first solar airplane
able to sustain flight at night with a pilot on board, is
making its historic round-the-world trip powered only by
the sun
There are also portable solar which were invented to
help bring light to the developing world.
Ethics
For an invention to be counted among those promoting climate
change there are specific conditions that must be met (Preston
2012). Such conditions form for the ethics. In this case here are just
but a few that solar energy falls under.
Technical feasibility
Foreseeable consequences
Bring preferable economic results
Not violate well-founded ethical principles
These set principles of ethics allow us to adhere to democratic laws,
avoiding adverse changes and live with nature.
Efficiency and Sustainability
Meaning of sustainability is rather simply defined. Question if the
system of solar energy can be maintained at a rather cheaper cost
over a long period of time (Neumayer, & Dawsonera 2013). It means
to reduce the risk of project failure and enhance the sustainability
and efficiency through the adoption of new technologies over time.
Infrastructure
Existing solar panels and capabilities to distribute the solar energy
are determined in context of solar power during the design phase of
the project. All the limiting factors are determined with the heat
capacity.
Operation and Maintenance
To achieve the consistent or improved efficiency and sustainability,
the project manager has a role to control and manage the
operations and maintenance. It is assured that solar panels are
working properly to meet the goal and objectives and maintenance
is as expected. It also uses different systems for the monitoring of
the operations and conditions for the maintenance.
Solar generator Tesla Battery
Solar cell
Portable solar panel