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A Technology for Today and Tomorrow

Each day more energy falls to the Earth from the sun's rays than the total amount of energy the planet's 5.9 billion inhabitants would consume in 27 years.

Only in the last few decades-when growing energy demands, increasing environmental problems and declining fossil fuel resources made us look to alternative energy options-have we focused our attention on truly exploiting this tremendous resource. The requirement for energy in space for powering satellite systems provided a big impetus to advance the technology, more of which is discussed below.

Solar electric systems are simple to operate and have no moving parts; however, photovoltaic (photo - light and voltaic - voltage producing) or PV cells employ sophisticated semiconductor devices, many of which are similar to those developed in the integrated circuit industry over the last 35 years.

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