A Better Life with Steem : A day as a Solar Engineer

Installing Solar Panels with my team
When thinking about the planet positives .. I think solar engineers should be in the top of the list of planet saviors. When comparing to the other countries in the world , sri lanka is blessed with sun light and have a great potential for solar power generation. I was working as a Solar Engineer for around 2 years and have managed around 50 solar photovoltaic sites including both domestic and commercial varies from 3kW to 1 MW systems. So today I'm going to discuss how solar system will positively affect the environment.

Rooftop Solar Panels mounting

Rooftop Solar Panels mounting
Working as a solar engineer or a solar technician is not an easy work . We had to work whole day facing the sun heat and on the roof tops of high rise buildings .. there is a great risk associated with our work of installing solar panels. But I see it's not only a occupation, but a great service to the mother nature

Inverter Unit

We can basically give these reasons on how Solar PV protects environment

• It reduces the carbon footprint - Solar Photovoltaic panels have no any emissions when converting sunlight to DC electricity. And also solar panels don't need water for this conversion. So it reduces carbon footprint.

• It reduce fossil fuel usage - Normally fossil fuel is widely used in conventional power generation methods ex: diesel generators , gas turbines etc. When the portion of total electricity demand can be supplied from PV systems .. the fossil fuel usage for power generation can be reduced.

• Saves water - Normally in power generation , fresh water is used in lot of applications .. directly in hydro power and for generator cooling etc. But for PV systems is not essential .

• No environment pollution - Solar PV power generation is 100% green. No emissions , No sounds .. 100% environment friendly ( But the pollution in generating and recycling solar panels have to be considered .. but still it's greener than conventional methods )

I feel really happy as I have directly involved in around 3 MW ( 3000 kW) of Solar PV systems , So that is approximately 5,365,500 kg of CO2 saved annually. So as a person I'm very happy to have a opportunity to do something positive to the planet.

Thanks all and this is my first post in this session 3 .. will meet again with a new one..