Solar Power The use of solar energy for the generation of electricity is not something new. Most of the countries are doing it successfully for decades and their population benefiting through the use of this free resource. But, to most of the people, it may still look like a mystery. These days, this energy is being utilized to light our homes, run fans, provide power to our fridges and microwave ovens, assist in warming our homes and swimming pools, provide power to our gardens and street lights, run our TVs and computers, and extract water from the sub-soil for irrigation purposes. Pakistan needs to produce 16,000 megawatts of electricity to cater for daily demand, but falls short by providing only 13,000 megawatts, according to the state-owned Pakistan Electric Power Company. Pakistan would be very smart if the encouraged investment in Alternative Energy (AE) now for a number of reasons. The most obvious being the shortage of electricity and the second and perhaps more important being the fact that oil prices are going to keep escalating making it more difficult for Pakistani's to afford electricity in the future. Advantages of using Solar Power System Saves your money Environmentally friendly Independent/ semi-independent…