A Review On History And Power From Sunshine And Storage Of It

Abstract

This working paper provides a longitudinal perspective on the business history of solar energy between the nineteenth
century and the present day. Its covers early attempts to develop solar energy, the use of passive solar in architecture before
World War 2, and the subsequent growth of the modern photovoltaic industry. It explores the role of entrepreneurial actors,
sometimes motivated by broad social and environmental agendas, whose strategies to build viable business models proved
crucially dependent on two exogenous factors: the prices of alternative conventional fuels and public policy. Solar power is the
conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaic (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power(CSP).
Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam.