1. Some Recent Research on Solar Energy Technology.
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Allan, R., Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Klapp, Jaime, Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L., Chávez Alcalá, José Federico, Arancibia-Bulnes, Camilo A, Jiménez, Antonio E, Jaramillo, Oscar A, and Estrada, Claudio A
- Abstract
Mexico is located in the Earth's sunbelt, where solar energy is plentiful for potential applications of solar energy conversion systems. According to several estimations (Renné et al. 2000), the average insolation over the country's surface amounts to 5 kWh/day, which puts Mexico in a privileged situation for the deployment of solar energy technologies. Other renewable energy sources such as: wind, biomass, geothermal, large and small hydrological, the ocean, play a role in the national energy supply system or have the potential for being an important factor, but none of them has the potential of solar energy, which could easily satisfy all of the country's energy requirements. In spite of this, the development of solar energy in México is still marginal. There are several small industries that have been producing and installing flat plate solar collectors for household hot water production and swimming pools for several decades, and the installed capacity has been growing steadily for some years now (68,725 m2 of collectors were installed during 2004). Also, PV panels are imported and installed in a regular basis but not in very large quantities (9,923 kW were installed during 2004) (SENER 2005). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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