Residential Solar Energy

Yes solar energy is nice and clean. Agreed it is useful and shows promising future. But how can I, a common man use this so called renewable source of energy in my day-to-day life. How can I use solar energy for my residential uses?
Let us see how. There a number of daily appliances that are now working on solar energy instead of the traditional conventional sources. The Solar-Cooker, Solar Water Heater, Solar dryers are the most common of them. Let us consider a few more of the residential solar energy appliances, which are a dream child of the various technologists, engineers, scientists working for harnessing it to maximum.
Portable Emergency Light & Mini Lantern
This portable device uses the solar energy for indoor and outdoor lighting. The sun’s rays are absorbed by a solar photo-voltaic panel which converts light energy into electricity, which is then stored in the battery box. In the evening or night, the lantern can be switched on and used as required. The consumed energy is again recharged the following day. Thus the Lantern is a self-operating and reliable unit with no recurring fuel cost
Solar Street Light
Solar Street Light System is a system, comprising of a compact fluorescent lamp, lead acid battery, PV module’s, electronics inter connecting wires or cables, module mounting hardware & a battery box. The Street Light works on 12V, 75 Am Battery backup, which is charged by two Solar Photo-voltaic Panels of 37 Watts each. It can work for three sunless days, and operates automatically from dusk to dawn. A maximum distance of 15 meters between two street lights should be maintained.
Solar Street Light is protected from the battery over charging and over discharging, and from over load. These indications are provided on the battery box itself. The battery box is painted on the outside with corrosion resistance paint and on the inside by acid resistance paint. The street Light requires practically zero maintenance.
Solar Inverter
The Solar Inverter comes with the choice of charging of batteries by both solar as well as mains utility (Hybrid Version), with automatic change over from mains to battery and from battery to mains like a regular inverter. It employs an inverter circuitry, two-level battery charging from mains, Solar Charge Controller and fast change over mechanism during power failure and resumption. The unit comes with built-in protection against dangerously high mains voltages up to 400V, thereby protecting the precious electrical load connected.