Clean Technica | By Zachary Shahan | GPE – July 23, 2017:
Everything has its advantages and disadvantages, its pluses and minuses. So, naturally, there must be a number of solar power advantages and solar power disadvantages too, right? It’s been awhile since I ran down a list of solar power advantages and disadvantages, so I figured this topic was ripe for a refresher.
Solar Power Advantages:
Originally published on October 8th, 2013: There are many solar power advantages worth noting. In no particular order (well, perhaps simply the order in which they come to mind), here are some of the top advantages (NB. More information on each bullet-point is contained in the original article):
- Solar power saves society billions or trillions of dollars.
- Solar power saves you money.
- Solar power provides energy reliability.
- Solar power provides energy security.
- Solar power provides energy independence.
- Solar power creates jobs.
Solar Power Disadvantages:
Solar power disadvantages are actually not so plentiful. In fact, there’s only one notable disadvantage to solar power that I can think of. That disadvantage is that the sun doesn’t shine 24 hours a day. When the sun goes down or is heavily shaded, solar PV panels stop producing electricity. If we need electricity at that time, we have to get it from some other source. In other words, we couldn’t be 100% powered by solar panels. At the very least, we need batteries to store electricity produced by solar panels for use sometime later.
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