Solar PV Facts

Solar PV could provide 10,000 times more energy than the world currently uses.

If we covered a small fraction of the Sahara desert with PV, we could generate all the world's electricity requirements.

If you install a solar PV tiled roof, you could prevent over 34 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions during its lifetime.

The earth receives an unimaginably huge amount of energy which completely dwarfs the capabilities of fossil fuels or nuclear fission, and its clean and free.

Many buildings use cladding materials which cost £1,000 per square metre. By contrast, solar PV cladding - which can look every bit as attractive as marble or bronze - costs as little as £500 per square metre. It also provides clean and free power for the building.

The average household uses the equivalent of 3000kW hours of power per year to heat water. In the south of the country we can collect up to 1300 kW hours per square metre of solar panel per year. This is free energy waiting to be collected and used all year round.

Solar energy is better for the environment than traditional forms of energy.

Solar energy is a renewable resource (it may go away at night, but we will always have it).

The earth receives more energy from the sun in just one hour than the world uses in a whole year.

Solar energy has many uses such as electricity production and heating of water.

Shell Oil predicts that 50% of the world's energy will come from renewable sources by 2040.

Solar energy can also be used to heat swimming pools, power cars, mobile phones, ipods and other small appliances.

You can cook food using solar energy with a solar oven.

Solar Energy is becoming more and more popular. The worldwide demand for Solar Energy is currently greater than supply.

Two billion people in the world have no access to electricity. For most of them, solar photovoltaics would be their cheapest electricity source, but they cannot afford it.

Solar energy will not pollute our air with carbon dioxide and other harmful greenhouse gases and bad emissions. If you would like to do your bit for the environment and install your own solar panels but don't want to spend a fortune click here.