Home Solar Energy

Food can be easily and conveniently cooked with solar energy as the fuel in devices called solar cookers or solar ovens.
Solar cookers are an ideal addition to any kitchen wherever there are predictable hours of sun many days of the year. Solar cooking and baking are easy. Solar cookers are safe around children and provide a great way to learn about and use solar energy.

Solar cookers are clean, convenient, non-polluting and easy on the environment. For millions of people living in arid, fuel-scarce regions of the world, solar cookers can literally save lives.
Solar energy has a variety of practical and cost-effective applications in today’s homes.

Solar pool heating systems heat pool water to extend the swimming season and eliminate pool heating costs. Solar hot water heaters can replace existing conventional water heaters and can easily be paired with radiant panel flooring, thereby reducing utility bills.

Photovoltaic cells are solar panels that have no moving parts, yet they convert sunlight directly into electricity to be used to satisfy all of a home’s electricity needs.
Domestic lighting represents a large portion of electricity consumed and contribute a disproportionately large amount to the evening system peak load.

Most existing households use incandescent lamps and low efficiency Fluorescent Tube Lights (FTLS) for home lighting. High efficiency lighting technologies such as a Compact Flurescent Lamps (CFL) and efficient FTLs (T-8 or T-5) are available in the market but have achieved a low level of penetration. Promotion of these technologies will contribute significantly to reduced energy consumption and peak loads.
The use of solar energy at domestic level would result in reduction in evening peak demand, reduction in deficit of electricity. Therefore, when we receive plenty of sunshine, home solar energy makes a lot of sense.

Therefore, in some countries which are receiving plenty of sunshine and where it never dips below receiving atleast 78 percent of the possible available hours of sunshine in a given month, home solar systems are installed in their residential building for making maximum and best use of solar energy.
In the years ahead, we can expect to see increased use of home solar energy and get rewarded the benefits therefrom. However, for this there has to be greater awareness to be created amongst the members of public.