How to Use solar panel in a Sentence

solar panel

noun
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  • All of the house's electricity is produced by solar panels on the roof.
  • Just place the solar panel in the sun to charge the lights.
    — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 13 May 2024
  • The batteries charge during the day from both the solar panels and the grid.
    — WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The roof of the home is also covered with solar panels.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
  • And yes, every solar panel that gets installed on a rooftop, rather than in the desert.
    — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Not to mention the solar panels on the parking garage and free public transit to games.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Most of the value in the solar panels comes in the form of silver used for wiring and the high-purity silicon of the cells.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
  • First Solar, a solar panel maker that happens to sit in the tech group.
    — Lauren Pollock, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Will the eclipse cause problems for people with solar panels?
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The house has two gas fire pits, high-end appliances and Tesla solar panels.
    — Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The solar panel is discreetly attached to the top of the modern white fixture, which can be pole- or wall-mounted.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The back of the vehicle is fitted with a solar panel that can absorb up to 1,840 watts of clean energy.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2022
  • To top it off, the cat sports just over 1,600 square feet of solar panels that generate more energy for the hotel load.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2024
  • In the past two years, the growth in the deployment of solar panels has been fast enough to align with the rate envisaged in the IEA’s pathway to net zero emissions by 2050.
    — Fatih Birol, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • There is no perfect method for protecting solar panels from hail, but there are ways to reduce the risk.
    — Dan Gearino, WIRED, 29 June 2024
  • The bite-size rovers, less than an inch tall and each weighing next to two ounces, are shaped like flattened rings encircling two wheels and a solar panel.
    — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The funds paid for construction, installation of the solar panels and the future creation of a park.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2024
  • The company opened its first Georgia solar panel plant in 2019, and is now one of the biggest U.S. producers.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 12 Jan. 2023
  • It has also been equipped with more fuel, more solar panels and sturdier legs.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • So to intercept the most light, solar panels need to be set up vertically.
    — John Landreneau, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2023
  • The summers near Sacramento are hot, and no one wants to install solar panels under the midday sun.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
  • The metal is used in solar panels, wind turbines, electrical cables, and even your iPhone.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Among the eco-friendly technologies is an array of solar panels.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The company also plans to equip the L1 with a number of solar panels, which Lightship claims can generate up to 3 kW of power.
    — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Which isn’t to say there are no luxuries in their off-the-grid home, which is equipped with a solar panel array and a rainwater catchment system.
    — David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The south pole gets near-continuous sunlight to power the spacecraft’s solar panels and is thought to have water ice.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Just avoid covering the solar panel with your hand as the tool needs a light source (sunlight or electric light) to generate the microcurrents.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Without control of the solar panels, the Peregrine won’t be able to charge its batteries and maintain a power supply.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The pavilion and about half of the food truck canopies will support roughly 5,000 square feet of solar panels to provide sustainable energy to the facility.
    — Laura Kinsler, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
  • Photo courtesy of Nizar Haddad The quaint-looking house runs on solar panels and collects rainwater, which is used as part of a larger recycled water system in the house.
    — Maghie Ghali, Architectural Digest, 13 July 2024

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