What are common PV applications?
PV products are used in many different applications, covering a power range from 0.0001 Watts to 2,000,000 Watts. Traditionally, the most common application of PV has been for electrical loads that cannot be easily plugged into the electricity grid, either because they should be transportable such as solar calculators, watches etc or because the electricity grid does not exist at a particular location. When the grid is located far away from a particular application, PV is being used to provide “remote power”. Examples of these applications are houses not connected to grid power, telecommunications, remote villages, water pumping and space. However, a recent and rapidly growing application for photovoltaics is for residential or building integrated which are connected to the electricity grid. During the day, power is used from photovoltaics, and at night power is used from the electricity grid. A final application is utility-scale photovoltaics, in which a utility company installs a lar
