Book Contents

• Global energy system and solar energy
• Solar energy: resource, technologies, and materials—an overview
• Silicon for solar photovoltaics and emerging materials
• Solar cell technologies: recent advances in research and development
• Organic photovoltaics: future hope?
• Solar energy storage: technologies and sizing
• Nanotechnology for efficiency improvements in solar energy
• Information technology for solar project development

Grid-connected solar power

• Grid-connected solar photovoltaics
• Concentrating solar photovoltaics
• Solar thermal power electricity generation
• Technical challenges of grid-tied photovoltaic systems

Major off-grid solar applications

• Solar photovoltaic power for irrigation and water management
• Stand-alone photovoltaics for energy-intensive industries
• Techno-economics of solar industrial process heat
• Solar water-heating systems
• Evacuated-glass-tube-based solar collectors
• Solar drying for food processing
• Solar cooking systems: past and future
• Solar distillation of water
• Solar-energy-based air conditioning

Solar energy development in India

• Solar radiation assessment over India
• Photovoltaic technology and policy development in India: a historical overview
• Solar thermal technologies in India: a historical overview
• Clean development mechanism and solar projects
• Human resource development for the solar sector in India
• Environmental impacts of solar power generation

The solar mission and the way forward

• The national solar energy mission: history, concept, and critique
• Material limits, solutions, and policy lessons
• Regulation and the deployment of solar energy
• Needed: a smarter grid to support solar power
• Institution-building for the solar transition
• The economics of solar power
• Financing solar energy development an accelerating grid parity
• Progress in India and the way forward
• The beginning of a new dawn

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