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Sun light during night

Capture the sun and save it for the night with a solar light! For decoration or lighting purpose, or both, solar lights come in a variety of models suitable to your specific needs.

Uses: While solar lights come in many styles, all perform the same essential function. A solar light shines in the night without fussy electrical cords crossing around. Take a look at some popular types of solar lights for home usage:

Landscape: Illuminate paths and gardens with a solar light array.

Motion: Safety and security are foremost. This solar light deters prowlers, but also lights the way for you and your guests.

Deck: The party's not over when the sun goes down. These solar lights have stored keep the festivities going deep into the night.

Floodlights: Give your house a gentle wash of solar light to accent its architectural features.

Spotlights: This outdoor solar light put the focus on your home or landscaping. Illuminate a beautiful statue, or keep a dark corner of the yard safely lit.

Hassle Free Energy: Without wires crowding the outdoor sockets, a solar light set keeps the lawn clean and safe for kids. The convenience begins when you set up your solar light. Simply dust off the collecting panels on your solar lights and they will shine through many nights to come. What's more, solar lights have no affect on electricity bills. For safety, landscaping, or both, outdoor solar lights bring the warmth and clarity of the day into the beauty of the night. Consider the numerous models and decide which solar light is right for you. What is an LED?

Solar lights are equipped with LED's.

An LED, or Light Emitting Diode, contains a chemical compound that gives off light when an electric current passes through it. They've been around for many years, but only recently has the technology advanced so that they can be made bright enough to actually use as an independent light source.

How much light does an LED produce?

LEDs put out a tremendous amount of light for their size and energy draw. They create almost no heat and use very little electricity. In general, an LED uses about 1/10th the power of an incandescent bulb and they are up to 90% more efficient than both fluorescent and neon bulbs of similar wattage. Best of all, an LED will last thousands of hours; some have been tested to over 50,000 hours (vs. a standard flashlight bulb that will only last a few hundred hours).

A common mistake is to compare wattage between LED units and their incandescent and fluorescent cousins - wattage is a function of power consumption, not brightness.

What are the advantages of Solar Lighting?

An advantage of buying solar lights is that LED bulbs will never burn out during the lifetime of the product. Low voltage incandescent and fluorescent systems will need bulb replacements often and add cost and inconvenience to the product.

1-2 LEDs(equiv. to a night light):3-5 LEDs (equiv. to a desk light)
6-8 LEDs(equiv. to a porch light):9 LEDs and Up (equiv. to a flash light)

India aspires to be global leader in Solar Energy

In a country with 80,000 impoverished  villages having no access to grid electricity, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  laid out an ambitious plans to make India a global leader in solar power by launching a government initiative to boost use of the solar technology.  Solar can help secure India's energy independence and tackle climate change  as well as offer new opportunities for industry in a country with a crippling shortage of power.

The National Solar Mission, launched in January, 2010   would "establish India as a global leader in solar energy" in the areas of power generation and technology production.  "The rapid spread of solar lighting systems, solar water pumps and other solar power-based rural applications can change the face of our rural energy sector,"

The Solar Mission has the goal of increasing solar energy capacity exponentially to reach 20,000 megawatts for the year 2022, reducing reliance on fossil fuels.  That amount would provide enough power for 20 million homes, with each receiving one kilowatt of power.

 India currently produces just under nine megawatts of solar power, data from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) show.    India produces more than 15,000 megawatts of power from all renewable sources, according to the MNRE, with more than 10,000 megawatts from wind power alone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_India

Solar Energy : Economic Necessity for Indian Villages

The climate change is just one facet of a reality bearing down on India. India's rapid growth comes in an era when cheap, easily available natural resources are gone. This country almost has to follow a different path -- relying on the resource from Sun, above the surface of earth than the one  we could get under our feet -- because that's the only resource available in sufficient quantity. 

India faces a severe coal shortage. Its existing power plants cannot burn imported coal unless it is mixed with domestic. So the more domestic coal it commits to new plants, the sooner it will have to retire its existing fleet. Already, the increase in the world price of coal is driving up the price of cement. Citizen protests have forced the cancellation of a major coal mine and power project in western India, near Mumbai. Efforts to assemble land parcels for industrial facilities are becoming more contentious, with massive protests building. Increasingly, public opinion is mobilizing against even proposals to allow mining companies access to India's reserves of iron ore and bauxite -- because they are under some of the nation's most important remaining forest habitat, because protecting habitat involves a real tradeoff -- unlike the shift to cleaner energy, which is just good business. 

India pays huge sums to import crude oil and then subsidizes kerosene for lighting and cooking, diesel for irrigation pumping, and LPG for cooking -- at enormous cost to the treasury. New proposals are being floated to reduce at least some of these subsidies -- but the idea is enormously controversial because neither the government nor India's poor can afford to rely on oil at today's world market prices.

At the same time, in only a year and a half, this country has shifted into high gear in its engagement on climate. Last year was the hottest on record in India. Rainfall patterns already have been disrupted over the past twenty years. Sea level rise threatens a quarter of the population.  The government doesn't want to sit on the sidelines, and its solar energy mission is already far more ambitious. 

India is not a "mandate from the top" country. There's a strong democratic dialogue here. That can slow things down -- both good things, like massive investments in solar power, and risky things. 

India, which has the greatest unmet need for electricity in the world, have acknowledged that clean energy is an economic necessity and the wave of the future. 

US Solar Energy Mission to India

A Trade Mission on Solar Energy  headed by U.S. Assistant  Commerce Secretary Mary Saunders  visited Banglore in February 2010 .

The Solar Energy mission helped the US solar technology firms to initiate or expand their exports to India. The event was part of Obama Administrations strategic Dialogue to advance commercial ties between India and the US.  The mission visited New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai, where  the US Companies received market briefings and meet with Key government decision makers and prospective private sector partners. Bangalore was chosen as a destination due to Karnataka government's progressive renewable energy, including solar, policies and implementation of solar projects.

Affordable Solar Panels

Price of solar panels has fallen down because  price of  poly silicon, an essential material used in those panels and other raw materials has fallen  drastically.  Private sector funds are also targeting firms meeting India’s renewable energy requirements. India is engaged in a vast expansion of power infrastructure to meet the demands of  its rapidly growing economy and provide solar energy to its  vast population  who do not have access to electricity.