This book covers all aspects of generating electricity from the sun using photovoltaic cells, a clean and completely reliable renewable energy source, applicable anywhere the sun reaches.

It can be used as a textbook in relevant higher education courses as well as a reference book for Engineers, in studies of energy installation applications that include photovoltaics.

All topics related to photovoltaic technology are presented and analyzed in detail, with numerous scientific references, such as: solar radiation and its collectors, the physical principles of solar cell operation, the technology of producing and managing electricity from photovoltaic systems, and finally, hybrid systems, which combine more than one renewable/conventional source, with special reference to wind turbines.

In the text and appendices, the reader will find a multitude of solved exercises, application study examples, tables, and graphs with useful data.