How Solar Panels Create Energy

Making it more cost effective for consumers and businesses to generate and store their own solar energy.

How solar panels create energy.

A south facing installation will. Solar panels work by allowing particles of light called photons to knock electrons from their atomic orbitals. Solar photovoltaic panels use the sun s energy to create electricity to run appliances and lighting. Solar panels contain cells of semiconductive material usually silicon usually encased in a metallic frame and tempered glass.

An ideal site will have no shade on the panels especially during the prime sunlight hours of 9 a m. In most solar systems solar panels are placed on the roof. This doesn t mean that it needs to be sunny all the time for power to be generated as the technology relies simply on daylight. When subject to sunlight photovoltaic cells create a flow of electric charge inside the solar panel due to the photoelectric effect.

When this occurs a flow of electricity is generated and this electricity is harnessed and preserved as electrical energy. To understand this process further let s look at the solar energy components that make up a complete solar power system. A diagram showing how a solar panel battery system works. This flow travels in a circuit of wires that connect groups of solar panels called arrays.