Solar energy history can be traced back to a hundred years ago. Although there are lots of people using solar power and researching to install solar power systems at home nowadays, solar energy history began just a hundred years ago.

The world today is face with crisis in the application of the natural resources. The prices of crude oil in the global market greatly affect the economy over the world. Thus many experts, inventors, and scientists nowadays are trying to find alternative source for power energy. Among the alternatives is the solar electricity. Solar electricity is created by using sun by converting it into energy by means of electricity from sunlight. This process converts the sun rays into solar energy.

Solar energy consists of the light and heat emitted by the sun, available as electromagnetic radiation.