General view of solar energy

Fuentes, Roberto; Rojas, Diego; Rivera, Marco; Riveros, Jose; Munoz, Javier; Wheeler, Patrick

Abstract

Solar energy is considered clean, renewable and seemingly inexhaustible source of energy. Solar Energy has been used since ancient times for light and as heat, but in the 20th century, thanks to technological advances, different devices have been developed capable of transforming the energy from the sun into distributable energy, such as electricity. The following article presents an overview of solar energy, presenting the benefits and passive and active technologies. Photovoltaic cells, semiconductors and the conversion of solar energy are also presented.

Citation

Fuentes, R., Rojas, D., Rivera, M., Riveros, J., Munoz, J., & Wheeler, P. (2021, December). General view of solar energy. Presented at 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON), Valparaíso, Chile

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON)
• Start Date: Dec 6, 2021
• End Date: Dec 9, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Oct 23, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Feb 11, 2022
• Publication Date: Dec 6, 2021
• Deposit Date: May 30, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: May 30, 2022
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Book Title: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies, CHILECON 2021
• ISBN: 9781665408738
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/chilecon54041.2021.9702964
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• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9702964
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