{"id":14103,"date":"2017-08-17T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T05:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=14103"},"modified":"2023-11-13T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T03:01:53","slug":"uv-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/uv-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Solar Spectrum And Why &#8220;UV Solar Panels&#8221; Are A Con Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14202\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14202\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/leprechaun_solar.jpg\" alt=\"rainbow power company\" width=\"650\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/leprechaun_solar.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/leprechaun_solar-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We are getting reports of people paying through the nose for 5kW of &#8220;UV Solar Panels&#8221; from fast talking salespeople. Paying more for &#8220;UV Panels&#8221; is about as sensible as buying rainbow powered panels from a leprechaun.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The sun is a very large, naturally occurring, fusion reactor in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>It constantly releases a vast amount of energy.\u00a0 Even by the standards of sky fusion reactors it&#8217;s pretty powerful and outshines at least 90% of the stars out there.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>How powerful is it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you took:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all the energy humanity produces in from burning coal, oil, and natural gas<\/li>\n<li>and all the energy from the fission of uranium and other elements in nuclear reactors<\/li>\n<li>and all the energy spun out of wind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and then took the total for an entire year, it comes to around the amount of sunlight energy hitting the earth every hour.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/uv-solar-panels\/#en-14103-1' id='enref-14103-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(14103)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update Nov 15 2021: <\/strong><\/em><em> I originally had 7 seconds rather than an hour, but it has been pointed out to me that is not enough.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sunlight energy arrives in the form of photons, which is a word that means &#8216;the smallest amount of light possible&#8217;.\u00a0 These photons have different wavelengths<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/uv-solar-panels\/#en-14103-2' id='enref-14103-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(14103)'>2<\/a><\/sup> with longer wavelengths having less energy and shorter wavelengths having more.<\/p>\n<p>If a photon doesn&#8217;t have enough energy our eyes can&#8217;t see it.\u00a0 The same goes if it has too much energy.\u00a0 But if photons are just Goldilocks, then our eyes can see them and we call them visible light.<\/p>\n<p>Photons that don&#8217;t have enough energy to be seen are called infrared and those with too much are called ultraviolet.<\/p>\n<p>Sunlight energy that reaches the ground is around 4% ultraviolet, 43% visible light, and 53% infrared.\u00a0 Solar panels mostly convert visible light into electrical energy, and they also can make use of almost half the infrared energy.\u00a0 But solar panels only use a small portion of ultraviolet.<\/p>\n<h2>Why UV Panels are a con job<\/h2>\n<p>Because ultraviolet is such a small percentage of sunlight energy, if anyone ever tries to sell you a panel they claim uses ultraviolet light, then if ultraviolet is all it uses it is really, truly, crap compared to a normal panel. \u00a0Or if it somehow functions like a normal panel as well as making uses of ultraviolet, then it wouldn&#8217;t be that much of an improvement over an ordinary panel.\u00a0 It would just be maybe 5% more efficient.\u00a0 That&#8217;s enough to make a 20% efficient panel 21% efficient.<\/p>\n<p>As solar panels that can make good use of ultraviolet don&#8217;t really exist, even that modest improvement is not realistic.\u00a0 While you can get solar cells that make better use of ultraviolet for use in space, those cells aren&#8217;t used in panels you can put on your roof.<\/p>\n<h2>Sunlight In Space<\/h2>\n<p>Because the sun is a giant, uncontrolled, nuclear reactor, you might think that it would create a great deal of dangerous radiation.\u00a0 And you&#8217;d bloody well be right.\u00a0 But because the nuclear reactions happen deep within the sun&#8217;s core and the sun is what we scientists call very, very, big the deadly radiation can&#8217;t get out.<\/p>\n<p>Light itself can have a hard time escaping the sun and it can take 100,000 years for a photon to get from the center of the sun to its surface.\u00a0 From there it only takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to splat into someone&#8217;s solar panel.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to its total energy output the sun only produces a trivial amount of high energy radiation such as x-rays and gamma rays.\u00a0 But if you are a fragile organic being traveling into space, that trivial amount could become rather important, so I recommend taking precautions<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/uv-solar-panels\/#en-14103-3' id='enref-14103-3' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(14103)'>3<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Monty Python Galaxy Song\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/23Dm7sQ1C1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Sunlight On Earth<\/h2>\n<p>By the time sunlight energy reaches the top of earth&#8217;s atmosphere its intensity will be around 1,366 watts per square meter<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/uv-solar-panels\/#en-14103-4' id='enref-14103-4' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(14103)'>4<\/a><\/sup>.\u00a0 Passing through the atmosphere will reduce that by 18% down to 1,120 watts.\u00a0 Mind you, that&#8217;s 1,120 watts at noon, at the equator, on a clear day.<\/p>\n<p>Because conditions are rarely perfect, Standard Test Condition (STC) for solar panels is set at the nice round number of 1,000 watts per square meter.\u00a0 This means if you have a 270 watt panel it will provide that many watts of electrical power when exposed to sunlight of 1,000 watts per square meter.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t worry &#8212; nothing in your solar system will blow up or break if sunlight exceeds that amount.\u00a0 Hardware manufacturers and system designers take it into account.\u00a0 They also take into allow for sunlight intensity going even higher if it shines through a hole in clouds and panels are hit at the same time by direct sunlight and indirect light scattered by surrounding clouds.<\/p>\n<h2>Sunlight Spectrum<\/h2>\n<p>This diagram from Wikipedia commons (I must remember to give them some money at some point) shows how much sunlight gets through to \u00a0the earth&#8217;s surface. The yellow area shows the amount of sunlight hitting the top of the atmosphere , and the red area is how much reaches the ground.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14177\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14177\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spectrum.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Radiation Spectrum \" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spectrum.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spectrum-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image source: Wikipedia commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At noon, at the equator the atmosphere reduces sunlight energy hitting the ground by 18%. However the graph above isn&#8217;t a snap shot taken under ideal conditions at noon on the equator, but is instead representative of sunlight hitting the earth as a whole. This is why it shows the atmosphere taking \u00a0a lot more than an 18% bite out of sunlight.\u00a0 In the morning and afternoon sunlight passes through more atmosphere before it hits the ground and higher latitudes have a similar effect.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the UV column, the atmosphere stops more than half the ultraviolet light, mostly thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ozone_layer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ozone layer<\/a>, which is what the O3 at the bottom left corner stands for. \u00a0Moving to the right, more than one quarter of visible light is lost and then the atmosphere takes some big bites out of infrared.\u00a0 The big pieces missing from the red are the result of gases in the atmosphere absorbing specific bands of sunlight energy before it hits the ground<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/uv-solar-panels\/#en-14103-5' id='enref-14103-5' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(14103)'>5<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<h2>The Visible Light Spectrum<\/h2>\n<p>Examining only the visible light section of the sunlight spectrum shows it is made of a beautiful rainbow of colors, as this image that fell off the back of a truck on its way to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/jetstream\/clouds\/color-of-clouds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration<\/a> displays:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/visible_spectrum.jpg\" alt=\"The Visible Spectrum\" width=\"600\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/visible_spectrum.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/visible_spectrum-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the spectrum as six colors.<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute, let me change that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As far as <strong>I<\/strong> can see, the spectrum has six colors.<\/p>\n<p>As far as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Issac Newton<\/a> could see the spectrum had seven colors.<\/p>\n<p>The people who made this image decided to tack deep red on at the end, making for eight colors.<\/p>\n<p>And for all I care, you can divide it into as many different shades and call them colors as you like.<\/p>\n<p>The mnemonic I use to remember Zaccy Newt&#8217;s seven colors is Roy G. Biv.\u00a0 This stands for Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.<\/p>\n<p>Visible light starts at a wavelength of around 390 nanometers and ends with red (or deep red) at around 700 nanometers.\u00a0 A nanometer is one billionth of a meter.<\/p>\n<h2>Spectrum Of Sunlight Used By Silicon PV<\/h2>\n<p>Now here is a spectrum I stole from the University of NSW.\u00a0 It shows sunlight reaching the ground as the one I used earlier does, but this one uses a horrible greenish-grey color to show what portion of sunlight energy a silicon solar panel could convert into electrical energy:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pvspectrum.jpg\" alt=\"PV Spectrum\" width=\"600\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pvspectrum.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pvspectrum-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a problem with this graph because it shows 49% of the energy being converted to electricity and this is much too high.\u00a0 The highest efficiency of any solar panel that can be bought today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunpower-panels-set-new-efficiency-record-24-1-x-series\/\">around 23%<\/a> which is less than half the amount shown.\u00a0 So I drew on the original diagram with my purple pen to show how much light gets converted \u00a0by such a solar panel. Note that whilst the area is about the correct size &#8211; the shape of the enclosing line is a guess.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14203\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14203\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-17_14-36-26.png\" alt=\"graph\" width=\"599\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-17_14-36-26.png 599w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-17_14-36-26-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A doctored version of the first diagram to show how much light is used by a commercially available panel.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, silicon solar panels can manage to use some of the ultraviolet portion of sunlight on the far left.\u00a0 The amount increases as it becomes visible light and panels go on to produce most of their electricity from visible light.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike with ultraviolet, in the infrared there is a very sharp cutoff in the sunlight energy used by the panel at 1,100 nanometers.\u00a0 This is because wavelengths longer than this simply ignore the silicon atoms and pass by them with little or no effect.\u00a0 The silicon is transparent to infrared of this wavelength or longer.<\/p>\n<h2>Multi-junction Solar Cells<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/eere\/sunshot\/multijunction-iii-v-photovoltaics-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multi-junction solar cell<\/a> is basically several solar cells crammed into one, with each part specializing in a portion of the spectrum of sunlight energy.\u00a0 The diagram below, that I stole from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ise.fraunhofer.de\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems<\/a>, shows an example:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multi.jpg\" alt=\"Multi-Junction Cell\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multi.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multi-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Multi-junction cells can have efficiencies of over 35% in normal sunshine and over 46% in concentrated sunshine.\u00a0 But because of their great expense they are not used in panels for rooftops or solar farms and are instead used on space probes and satellites and in specialized concentrated solar applications.<\/p>\n<h2>Ultraviolet Panels Don&#8217;t Really Exist<\/h2>\n<p>Today silicon solar panels make up over 97% of world panel production.\u00a0 The rest is almost entirely <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cadmium_telluride_photovoltaics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cadmium telluride<\/a> thin film panels produced by companies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstsolar.com\/en-AU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Solar<\/a>.\u00a0 These panels can use slightly more infrared than silicon ones, but they should also use slightly less ultraviolet.<\/p>\n<p>Currently people are working to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_cell_research#UV_solar_cells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increase the amount of ultraviolet<\/a> solar panels use.\u00a0 Despite this, all currently available panels are visible light panels first, infrared panels second, and ultraviolet panels only as a distant third.\u00a0 So little ultraviolet hits the earth&#8217;s surface that nothing is likely to ever change this.\u00a0 So if a salesperson tells you they have an ultraviolet panel, they are either not being truthful or they don&#8217;t know what they are talking about.<\/p>\n<h2>What Matters Is A Panel&#8217;s Watts And Efficiency<\/h2>\n<p>Because ultraviolet only makes up a small portion of the energy in sunlight, the amount of ultraviolet light a panel uses is not going to make much difference to its performance.\u00a0 All else equal, the more ultraviolet energy it uses the better, but there is no need for anyone who is looking to put panels on their roof to worry about it.\u00a0 An all else equal panel that uses more ultraviolet will have a slightly higher wattage and a slightly higher efficiency and those are figures you can easily use to compare it with other panels.\u00a0 Just how much ultraviolet light it uses shouldn&#8217;t be a concern.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun is a very large, naturally occurring, fusion reactor in the sky. It constantly releases a vast amount of energy.\u00a0 Even by the standards of sky fusion reactors it&#8217;s pretty powerful and outshines at least 90% of the stars out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-14103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-panels-2","tag-solar-panel-technology","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Solar Spectrum And Why &#039;UV Solar Panels&#039; Are A Con Job<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If anyone offers you a special &#039;UV Solar Panel&#039;, run don&#039;t walk to a reputable solar company. 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