1Department of Physics, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo
2Department of Integrated Science, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo
Online published on 6 April, 2016.
Solar energy technologies (SETs) provide obvious environmental advantages in comparison to the conventional energy sources, thus contributing to the sustainable development of human activities. Not counting the depletion of the exhausted natural resources, their main advantage is related to the reduced CO2 emissions and, normally, absence of any air emissions or waste products during their operation. On the other hand, it must be realized that no man-made project can completely avoid some impact to the environment, so neither can SET installations. This article therefore, reviews various environmental aspects of the deployment of SETs and illustrates the ways that can be used to successfully address potential burdens to the environment.
