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RENEWABLE ENERGY
1. WIND POWER
2. WATER POWER
3. SOLAR ENERGY
4. BIOFUEL
5. WAVE POWER
6. HYDRO POWER
SOME FACTS:
Wind power is growing at 30% annually with
capacity of 100gw.
The majority of renewable energy technologies
are powered by the sun.
The world's largest geothermal power
installation is The Geysers in California, with a
rated capacity of 750 MW.
Brazil has one of the largest renewable energy
programs in the world, involving production of
ethanol fuel from sugar cane, ethanol provides
18 percent of the country's automotive fuel.
Kenya has the world's highest household solar
ownership rate with roughly 30,000 small (20–
100 watt) solar power systems sold per year.
SOLAR ENERGY
Ways to Convert Solar
Energy into Electricity…
Photovoltaic system.
Solar-Thermal Technologies.
Photovoltaic system..
Advantages of
Photovoltaic systems…
PV arrays can be installed quickly
and in any size required or
allowed.
The environmental impact is
minimal, requiring no water for
system cooling and generating no
by-products.
Solar-Thermal
Technologies..
Different Products Based
on Solar Energy…
WIND POWER
What is it?
WIND POWER - What is it?
All renewable energy (except tidal and
geothermal power), ultimately comes from the
sun