Importance of Solar Lighting systems in Terms of Environmental Pollution

Abstract

One of the alternatives to fossil fuels is the solar energy to produce electricity parallel with today's rapidly advancing technology. Solar energy is the most important and the cleanest energy source that it can be used in almost every field. Lighting systems come at the first of these areas. Almost %25 of produced electricity is being consumed for lighting in all over the world. Therefore, using alternative energy for lighting systems has become inevitable. For example, usage of alternative energy for lighting in the local parks, gardens and streets, long-distance highways and roads have become widespread quickly. Despite there is a transmission cost in addition to production cost in power plants, solar power systems have no transmission cost so usage of them are growing rapidly. However, it should be considered more seriously that component of solar power system must be chosen recyclable from production throughout operation. It is obvious that the usage of solar power system is inevitable when environmental effects of thermal power plant are being considered. Therefore usage of the solar energy should be expanded, especially in street, highway, park and garden lighting, traffic signals and remote area lighting system. Examples of these applications around the world should be encouraged to use in our country.

In this sense, this study has provided information about solar lighting systems and their new technology. Furthermore, an example of the integration the solar energy within a city lighting system has been investigated.

Keywords

• Solar Energy,Solar Lighting,Environmental Pollution,Renewable Energy

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