ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the new status of different solar energy technologies briefly. It aims to compare the approximate performance of each technology. The energy radiated from the sun is equivalent to a million billion 100 GW power stations. The sunlight falling on Earth consists of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared radiation, and all renewable energy sources are hydro, wind, waves, biomass arise due to the primary solar energy. Low-cost and non-silicon solar panels may come from thin-film solar cells based on cadmium telluride, copper indium gallium diselenide, Dye-sensitised solar cell, and organic solar cells. The manufacturing of these solar panels needs only one production line in addition to required precursors, instead of the four separate production lines required for Si technology. Next-generation solar cells will be developed in the future based on various systems. Scientists have researched the electrodeposition of semiconductors over the past three decades and have grown many different semiconductors using this technique.
