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The sun generates enough clean energy in one day to provide a year's supply of energy for your home or office. Why not tap into this abundant resource of clean energy? PV preserves the earth's finite fossil-fuel resources — coal, oil, natural gas — and reduces air and noise pollution associated with these energy sources.
Consumers and businesses also benefit from PV when faced with power outages and future electricity price increases. Recent technological breakthroughs, combined with federal and EU programs and incentives, have greatly reduced the costs of PV ownership. Depending upon where you live and taking into account current utility pricing, state and local incentives offered in some parts of the Europe and other benefits, PV can be competitively priced with traditional energy sources. Also, PV system reliability and durability are outstanding — typical PV systems may last 30 years with minimal maintenance.
Modern solar electric power-generation systems such as photovoltaics (or PV) are some of the most elegant and environmentally benign energy systems ever invented. But do people actually use them? The answer is yes — and not just in space. PV systems can also be found in the most isolated spots on Earth as well as in the heart of some of our largest cities. And every place in between.
Today's PV systems are used to generate electricity, to pump water, light up the night, activate switches, charge batteries, supply power to the utility grid, and much more. PV has so many uses today that it probably already touches your life in some way. You might have noticed the small PV systems attached to emergency telephones along the highways. But PV provides power in many ways we cannot see — for all kinds of satellites in space, including those that keep modern communication systems "up and running."
To make PV systems even more efficient, affordable, and available, research projects are ongoing, backed by Governments all over the modern world and their partners in universities and industry continue to conduct advanced research and development in this exciting, important energy technology.
The West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency, are working to improve socioeconomic conditions in the Sunderbans region of West Bengal, India. These rooftop PV modules on a village health center in West Bengal provide power for refrigerators containing medicines and vaccines, for lights, and for other important needs.
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