Investigation of environmental effects on the photovoltaic properties of silicon solar cells

Most of the energy resources used today compose of fossil fuels. These fossil fuels have a certain amount of reserves in our world. Due to the increase in energy demand in our daily lives, existing energy resources are rapidly depleted. The use of alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, wave, geothermal, biomass, hydraulics and hydrogen has gained great importance in the near future due to the rapid depletion of fossil fuel sources and environmental pollution caused by fossil fuels. Using solar energy, energy production is the most preferred among alternative energy sources. In this study, the emphasis is on the alternative energy sources used in the world and also solar energy 's current status,in developed countries and Turkey , types and working principles of solar power plants are evaluated. As it is known solar energy systems could not reached the desired levels, the application areas of solar energy plants are mainly known that these are solar farms applied the lands and solar energy systems applied to the roof. These systems can convert solar energy into electricity by photovoltaic method. Photovoltaics are called solar cells that produce electricity from sunlight. In this study, the most preferred silicon solar cells among the types of photovoltaic solar cells are mentioned and ıt is focused on the environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, dust, and pollution which affect the silicon solar cells during the energy production stages. It has been focused on how to reduce the energy losses of the systems that generate electricity by using photovoltaic solar cells which its usage area is increasing day by day, how to increase the energy efficiency and how to minimize the environmental factors that affect the energy production stages.