How to Use solar panel in a Sentence

solar panel

noun
  • All of the house's electricity is produced by solar panels on the roof.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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 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
  • With no electricity, he was forced to charge his own cellphone from a neighbor’s solar panel.
    Kevin Collier, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • On the other side of the table, Grimm — her business and romantic partner — was reviewing the fine print on a solar panel contract.
    Steve Hendrix, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Installing a solar panel above a parking space costs several times more than installing one on the ground or on a rooftop because of the need to build the supporting structure.
    WIRED, 23 Jan. 2023
  • They are not heated and will supposedly be rat-proof; some models are equipped with solar panels.
    Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Abdul Fattah Ibrahim, a Deir al-Balah resident who has four solar panels affixed to his roof, has opened up his home to strangers.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
  • To charge batteries, satellites often have large arrays of solar panels that spread out like wings.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Those five cans of soup include your helicopter blades, which are several feet long, the batteries, the computer, the sensors and camera, the legs, the solar panel—all of it.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024

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