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Solar PV products for Irish Farms and Agriculture
Solar PV products exist for a range of different applications. These include:
- Solar panels or modules. These are the best known solar PV products. Now a familiar site on rooftops and in ‘solar farms’ and business roofs they have been mass manufactured for over 25 years.
- Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV). These are building material products such as roof tiles, glass or cladding with solar PV materials embedded within them.
- Consumer electronics. Some consumer products have been developed with solar PV materials integrated into them so that they can produce their own power.
- Conventional solar PV panels will help meet some of the electricity demands of a building.
- 1 sq. m of silicon solar panels will generate ~150W of power on a clear sunny day. That’s enough to power a laptop computer.
- A property solar PV system sized at 24 sq. m (~4kW) and well located would generate around 4000kWh of electricity a year. That is over 50% of the average annual electricity demand of an Irish home or small business.
- Solar PV systems will still function on overcast days in Ireland although not at their maximum rated capacity.
- You will find a Solar Energy System for your Farm to be hassle free, no noise, no moving parts and self cleaning – a true asset not a cost.