Permanent Architecture and Using Solar Energy

Many industrialized nations have installed significant solar power capacity into their grids to supplement or provide an alternative to conventional energy sources while an increasing number of less developed nations have turned to solar to reduce dependence on expensive imported fuels. Solar energy can be utilized in buildings and consumer devices in different ways so as to economize in the consumption of fossil energies, or to conserve them for future generations by not using them at all. By establishing solar power plants, centralizing the solar energy in one spot, it would be feasible to transmit the energy to the consumer places. Another way is to initially design buildings as solar houses (passive systems), and furthermore to benefit from active solar systems. Consequently, using solar energy via both active and passive systems in the building design can provide a high percentage of the energy required by the building.