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Gain Insight In To The Solar Power Commercial Market

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12:01 CST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50373) has announced the addition of "Solar Power Commercial Market Applications 2007" to their offering.

With global warming a frightening reality, and Bush's energy policy calling for widescale use of renewable and sustainable technologies, this report examines how businesses are applying large-scale solar projects to reduce their energy use and costs.

The sun has produced energy for billions of years. Solar energy is the solar radiation that reaches the earth. This energy can be converted directly or indirectly into other forms of energy, such as heat and electricity. It is used for heating water for domestic use, space heating of buildings, drying agricultural products, and generating electrical energy.

Solar energy supplies electricity to several hundred thousand people around the world, provides employment for over ten thousand and generates business worth more than one billion dollars. In the future, the pace of change and progress could be even more rapid as the solar industry unlocks its hidden promise.

The benefits of solar power are compelling: environmental protection, economic growth, job creation, diversity of fuel supply and rapid deployment, as well as the global potential for technology transfer and innovation.

The underlying advantage of solar energy is that the fuel is free, abundant and inexhaustible. The total amount of energy irradiated from the sun to the earth's surface is enough to provide more than 10,000 times the annual global energy consumption. Yet these benefits remain largely untapped; most energy decisions today overlook solar power as a modular technology that can be rapidly deployed to generate electricity close to the point of consumption. Phasing in solar photovoltaics therefore requires a shift from centralized to decentralized power production, offering far greater control to individual consumers.

This report on Solar Power Commercial Market Applications looks at the various applications of solar power in a range of industries. This report examines the future use of solar power in commercial applications including cars, solar towers, agriculture, and outer space. An in-depth analysis of NASA's work on photovoltaics and solar power is also provided. The report outlines 14 case studies of commercial uses of solar power, and features profiles from major industry participants.

-Introduction to Solar Power -Global Photovoltaic Industry

-Applications of Solar Power: Passive Solar Energy - Uses in Architecture Solar Heating Systems Solar Lighting Solar Cooking Photovoltaics Solar Thermal Electric Power Plants Solar Cars Solar Power Satellite Solar Updraft Tower Solar Power Tower

-Technologies Involved: Concentrating and Non-Concentrating Direct and Indirect Passive and Active

-Deployment of Solar Power to Energy Grids

Africa Australia Asia Europe North America

-Renewable Solar Power Systems with Regenerative Fuel Cell Systems -Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Developments -Space Solar Power: New Architectures, Concepts and Technologies -Solar Energy Application in Agriculture -Research and Development -Bringing Solar Power to Market

Case Studies Covered:

-Google's Mega Solar Power Project -New York City's Largest Commercial Solar Power System -Las Vegas Valley Water District Solar Project -PowerLight Solar Power Project in Gwangju, Korea -First Solar City in New South Wales -Beijing Olympics and Solar Power -Project ACCESS in Philippines -Equestrian Facility in Switzerland -World's Largest Solar Energy Plant in Portugal -London's City Hall Goes Solar -Solar Powered Roadside Telephones in UK -PV Tracking System at Water Pollution Control lant in California -Solar Energy and California State University -PV Project at Luke Air Force Base

For more information, visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50373

Source: Business Wire

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