Advantages of solar energy:

Main advantages of solar energy are as follows:

1. It is renewable source of energy; therefore, it is inexhaustible source of energy.

2. Energy is available is abundance is hot countries like ours.

3. Solar energy does not cause any pollution.

Disadvantages or limitations of solar energy:

1. The solar energy comes to earth in very diffused form therefore, solar energy has to be concentrated by special type of devices – solar energy collectors, before it can be put to any practical use. These solar energy collectors are generally quite bulky and hence are not always convenient to use.

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2. The solar energy is not available uniformly :

Its intensity is less during winters and during rainy season. It also keeps on changing during the day at a particular place.

3. It is not available in plenty at all places.

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4. It is not available during night.