Solar farms are large scale solar installations where photovoltaic panels, solar panels, or other means of collecting solar energy are used to harvest the suns power.

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), established in 1974, is the national non-profit trade association of the solar-energy industry in the United States. In 2019, the group reported at least 1,000 member companies

Solar Energy is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official journal of the International Solar Energy Society.

Energy that comes from the radiant light and heat from the sun.

Solar desalination is a desalination technique powered by solar energy.

A cooker that uses concentrated sunlight to cook or heat.

The solar constant is a flux density measuring mean solar electromagnetic radiation (solar irradiance) per unit area.

A solar combisystem provides both solar space heating and cooling as well as hot water from a common array of solar thermal collectors, usually backed up by an auxiliary non-solar heat source.

Solar thermal technologies are paired with photovoltaics (PV) to increase the efficiency of the system by taking heat away from the PV collectors, cooling the PV panels to improve their electrical performance while simultaneously warming air for space heating.

The sun’s radiation heats air under a large glass collector zone (around 1 km diameter), which then rises through large turbines at the base of a 600m high tower to generate electricity.

Solar chemical refers to a number of possible processes that harness solar energy by absorbing sunlight in a chemical reaction.

This factor is a measure of quality of a solar cell.

Solar cell efficiency refers to the portion of energy in the form of sunlight that can be converted via photovoltaics into electricity by the solar cell.

Also known as a photovoltaic cell, is used to convert light energy into electricity.

A solar cable is the interconnection cable used in photovoltaic power generation.

Means that any CO2 released into the atmosphere from human activity is balanced by an equivalent amount being removed.

Individuals and businesses producing renewable energy receive credits for each kWh they produce beyond their own needs

Net force is the vector sum of forces acting on a particle or body. The net force is a single force that replaces the effect of the original forces on the particle's motion.

Negative geothermal gradients occur where temperature decreases with depth.

Negative energy is a concept used in physics to explain the nature of certain fields, including the gravitational field and various quantum field effects.