RENEWABLE ENERGY

PROJECT THAT IS AND HOW

IT IS APPLIED

Team members:
Alan Aguilar
Luis Balderas
 Introduction

Sustainable energy, also known as renewable energy, focuses on reducing the negative
impact that human beings have on nature by obtaining energy from polluting and
exhaustible sources. This type of energy, in contrast to non-renewable energy, is obtained
from inexhaustible natural sources such as air, water and sun, among others. In addition,
sustainable energy is already cheaper than that produced with fossil fuels.
 It takes to apply this energy

To obtain this type of energy, the sun's radiation is used for the purpose of generating
electrical or thermal energy by using different technologies to take advantage of it in
various processes. Some of these technological inventions used to take advantage of it
are solar panels and thermal collectors, among others.

What is a solar panel?

A solar panel is a device that uses the sun's energy to generate heat or electricity.
According to these two purposes we can distinguish between solar collectors, which
produce hot water (usually for domestic use) using thermal solar energy, and photovoltaic
panels, which generate electricity from solar radiation that affects the photovoltaic cells of
the panel.
 Types of photovoltaic solar installation
There are two types of photovoltaic solar installations, depending on the final use of the
electricity produced:
Isolated facilities: All the electricity generated is used in full for self-consumption in homes,
orchards or facilities where traditional electricity companies do not arrive or in case of
doing so would be a high price.
A photovoltaic solar system connected to the network has only three basic elements:

• A group of photovoltaic solar panels. These solar panels are usually located on the roof
of a building or integrated into any structural element of the same building.
• Electronic inverter or inverter. This device transforms the energy in the form of direct
current that solar panels provide, in alternating current of the same type and value as
that transported by the electricity grid
• These photovoltaic solar energy installations considered as small power plants. In the
case of adapting these facilities to a building, it will incorporate a new electrical
installation and will have two different electrical installations..
Photovoltaic installation diagram
 Review of the list of components that make up a photovoltaic
system
• Solar panel
• Investor
• load center
• measurer
• MC4 double male / female connectors
• battery bank (isolated system only)
• PV type ZZ-F cable (recommended for this type of installation)
• Protections against overloads, against short circuit, against surges.