Solar Energy Studies

The sun is a clean and inexhaustible source for humans. It can be leveraged across the land surface in varying degrees. Its abundance and availability makes it optimal for many uses, as a direct or indirect, natural or artificial, is a constant in the structure of agriculture, urban, industrial, etc.

It is convenient to differentiate the various forms of solar collectors that are considered within the concept of renewable energy.

Among the possible uses of direct solar energy for heating can highlight and among the most commonly used passive solar energy is a way of harnessing solar energy that captures, stores and distributes naturally without mediation of mechanical elements; and active solar thermal energy at low temperature in that if there is a mechanical device that helps you capture solar energy.

Furthermore direct solar gain is also responsible for the production of electricity through photovoltaic panels.

Solar power, either directly or indirectly, is also an important part in the onset and development of numerous natural cycles in which man has invented sophisticated gadgets to take some of the energy of these cycles to their advantage.

It is incomprehensible that in our country with enviable resources of sunlight, proven technology to exploit and support for the funding, is not giving the momentum to make solar thermal leave their timid and copper presence and a leading role in popular the energy scenario.

With the use of solar thermal energy consumption we are replacing a fossil product, imported and polluting, renewable for an application, enormously effective for the production of hot water, not only has environmental benefits, but generates an economic activity and, therefore local employment. We’re talking about 1,600 jobs at present, but should reach at least 16,000.

It is our duty to convince citizens that the application of this technology in homes is an improvement of the quality of it is affordable and all advantageous light.

For example, in purchasing a new home, installing solar energy can be an additional outlay of between 0.3% and 0.8%, representing a negligible amount compared to the costs and expenses of the construction. If we refer to the unit cost of the panels needed to heat the water for a family, we are talking about 1,200 Euros, which is approximately the value of a good TV or any other appliance, and we will be covering 12% of energy needs housing. That is, this technology is very profitable in purely economic terms and in addition, users can obtain financing at very good conditions through, for example, the ICO-IDEA, or aid AVEN.

Indeed, the economic balance of solar thermal energy is fairly good, but besides this immediate benefit to the user, providing its use profitability in the medium term, benefits us all because we are saving environmental impacts or external costs however, do have conventional forms of energy and that sooner or later end up paying.

There is one fact that should make us think. Germany, having solar resources far below ours, installs each year between 600,000 and 900,000 square feet of panels, while in Spain that area is 60,000, i.e. more than ten times less. How is this possible? While it would be difficult to find the causes of this situation is not our task, we must accept our current situation and strive to improve it, because it goes against common sense and logic slow down the deployment.

It is true that we have missed a great opportunity for non-implementation, through legislation, solar thermal energy to the millions of new homes being built in the last five years, so is the upcoming implementation of the Directive of Energy Efficiency in Building, the new Technical Building Code introduced the requirement of these facilities and the existence of the Municipal Solar Ordinances again put us in a unique position to address the launch of this energy use.

To produce this off is necessary to have the will to everyone from architects to housing developers, municipalities, autonomous regions and citizens, as users can take between demands solar thermal energy as synonymous with the quality of their housing and quality of life.

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