TOWARDS RENEWABILITY BY APPLYING SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVED LIFE CYCLE

Energy crisis is one of the biggest issues of this era with limited and continuously depleting conventional sources for energy and power generation such as fossil fuels. Alternate sources must be targeted to meet the continuously increasing power requirements of the globe. Solar energy as one of the renewable one is derived from natural processes that are replenished constantly. In other words by using renewable source of energy, termination of fossil fuel source and their harms to the environment will be prohibited. This precious resource is a free, inexhaustible resource, yet harnessing it is a relatively new idea. According to the point that solar energy is the energy derived from the sun through the form of solar radiation, in this paper an attempt is made to explore the application of active solar techniques including the use of photovoltaic and solar hot water systems to harness the energy.