For thousands of years, the Sun was humanity's sole source of energy. We've used the Sun for drying clothes and food amongst other things.

Its role started to decrease only a few centuries ago, with the beginning of the industrial revolution and the discovery of new fossil fuels and eventually nuclear power. Others such as coal have been in use since ancient times.

Solar energy involves capturing and harnessing the sun’s energy.

Technically, most forms of energy on earth were originally derived from the sun. Even the fossil fuels are the products of photosynthesis from when ancient plants used the suns energy to grow, and then became fossilized.

The Sun is 150 million kilometres away, and is incredibly powerful.

Just a small fraction of the Sun's energy that hits the Earth should be enough to meet all our power needs many times over.

Solar energy is free, clean, endless and technically exploitable in most of the inhabited earth. It needs no fuel and produces no waste or pollution.

Solar power can be used where there is no easy way to get electricity to a remote place.

Whenever the sun shines heat energy is generated, therefore independent of how much energy you use, more energy will be produced.

There are three main ways of using solar energy:

       Passive solar design.

       Solar water heating.

       Solar photovoltaic (PV).

Using solar energy means contributing to the environment by choosing clean energy, saving on your day-to day energy costs, and an increasing independency from your utility supplier.