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Major Uses of Solar Energy Daylight Drying Agricultural Products Space Heating Water Heating Generating Electrical Power Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) PhotovoltaicsTRANSCRIPT
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Solar Energy
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Major Uses of Solar Energy
Daylight Drying Agricultural Products Space Heating Water Heating Generating Electrical Power
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Photovoltaics
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Drying Agricultural Products
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Space Heating Through Passive Solar
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Active Solar Heating
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Solar Collector
Glass on outside Absorbent on inside Circulating Fluid
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Generating Electrical Power
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)• Trough systems• Power towers
Heat exchanger plus steam turbine
Photovoltaics• Small-scale (buildings)
kW production• Large-scale (utilities)
MW production Photoelectric effect
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Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)
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Ivanpah, Mojave Desert
The United States houses the largest CSP plant in the Mojave Desert.
Ivanpah is operated by NRG. It uses 347,000 garage door-sized mirrors and 173,500 heliostats.
Image courtesy of NRG Energy
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PV Cell
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PV Array Components
PV Cells Modules Arrays
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PV System Components
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Remote PV Power
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Using a Digital Multimeter
Indicates voltage from alternating current. Do not use.
DC Current Scale
DC Voltage Scale
Resistance Scale. Do not use.
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Wiring the PV Modules
Series Parallel