Advantages

1. Fuel source without limit
2. Free main source is the sun
3. Environment friendly, clean, do not contribute to global warming, acid rains or smog, helps the decrease of harmful green houses gas emissions
4. You can use it for different purposes: vehicles running on solar power
5. Renewable
6. Give us a way to harness power in remote locations
7. The development of new technologies allows us to store the collected solar power through solar power battery chargers.
8. Cheaper than electricity heating
9. Desalination – it can be used in locations where there is a lack of drinkable water. Solar energy evaporates brine and leaves the salt crystals in the bottom of the basin. The water in turn condenses back in another basin, from which you can drink now.
10. It is produced where it is consumed
11. Does not use fuel therefore does not contribute to the cost of the recovery and transportation of fuel or radioactive waste
12. Become an official green business through Green Business Programs
13. Solar power production is a silent process
14. The equipment needs little maintenance
15. Saving money on long term basis
16. The equipment is easy to install

Disadvantages

1. Diffuse source – you need large number of solar panels to produce the needed electricity, from there you need a large land spot for this purpose
2. There are locations in the world where this energy is collected efficiently.  But some of the locations are not with the appropriate sunlight.
3. The initial cost of the solar panels are expensive investment
4. You can collect it only during the day
5. Depends on the climate conditions

This is our list of solar power advantages and disadvantages as a renewable energy sources. If you have something to add – please comment!

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12 Responses to “Advantages And Disadvantages Of Solar Power”

1. lovely says:

   October 13, 2009 at 6:22 am

   ..thanks for posting the advantages and disadvantages of solar plant…This helps me to answer my assignments in school…thank you!
2. gazi karim says:

   July 6, 2010 at 3:51 am

   Solar energy panels are notoriously ineffcient. They do help in generating
   hot water, but in converting the sun’s energy into electricity in a big way they are basically a non-starter. Research will undoubtedly produce more
   able, more effcient solar cells (photovoltaic cells) as time goes on, but we
   really don’t have the luxury of time that it is going to require to produce
   a cell that can convert high double digit energy effciency. Even so, the
   US has installed or plans to install by 2010 some 500,000 rooftop solar
   units, while Japan will have some 4,600 MW of solar generation capacity,
   a drop in the bucket of Japan’s energy consumption.
3. hannah gardiner says:

   September 23, 2010 at 6:14 pm

   thank you for helping me in homework but do you have anymore disadvantages anyone?
4. SNOWSAFE says:

   October 8, 2010 at 8:20 pm

   Thank you for the detail. I have to present a small paper and the Adv and Disadv gave me great support.
   JMS
5. Josh says:

   December 17, 2010 at 6:41 pm

   Solar power is everywhere. It is an energy that cannot be depleted.
6. Barak says:

   March 18, 2011 at 3:46 am

   Solar power will not kill people and the environment. Nuclear power and oil or coal based power has killed people and the environment. The BP oil platform diaster. Exxon Valdez. The Japan 6 reactor potential meltdown. These scare me. I don’t want to live in fear where these can happen. With solar thermal, what is there to fear? That a mirror will break. That the water that is used to generate steam will leak out? That the steam that turns conventional turbine will leak into the atmosphere? There is no worry with solar. The only worry is that we aren’t building enough utility scale solar plants to start replacing nuclear and fossil fuel based plants.
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   August 22, 2011 at 8:25 am

   thanks for the details.It helped me in my assignment.
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