What is solar energy? How does it work (answer in Eng)

Solar power is the technology of obtaining usable energy from the light of the Sun. Solar energy has been used in many traditional technologies for centuries and has come into widespread use where other power supplies are absent, such as in remote locations and in space.

Solar energy is currently used in a number of applications:

Heat (hot water, building heat, cooking)
Electricity generation (photovoltaics, heat engines)
Desalination of seawater.
Its application is spreading as the environmental costs and limited supply of other power sources such as fossil fuels are realized.

Contents
1 Energy from the Sun
1.1 Types of technologies
1.2 Solar design in architecture
1.3 Solar heating systems
1.4 Solar cooking
1.5 Solar lighting
1.6 Photovoltaics
1.7 Solar thermal electric power plants
1.7.1 Power towers
1.7.2 Concentrating collector with steam engine
1.7.3 Concentrating collector with Stirling engine
1.7.4 Solar updraft tower
1.7.5 Energy tower
1.8 Solar pond
1.9 Solar chemical
1.10 Biofuels
2 Classifications of solar power technology
2.1 Direct or Indirect
2.2 Passive or active
2.3 Concentrating or non-concentrating
3 Advantages and disadvantages of solar power
3.1 Advantages
3.2 Disadvantages
4 Availability of solar energy
5 Energy storage
6 Development & deployment of solar power

Solar Panels COLLECT SOLAR ENERGY from the sun. If we place the solar panels on the roof of a building, solar energy can be collected to use.

In a solar power station, solar energy is used to BOIL WATER INTO STEAM. The STEAM DRIVES THE TURBINE in a steam engine which in turn DRIVES THE GENERATOR to produce electricity.

Light and heat energy CHANGE TO Kinetic energy CHANGE TO electrical energy