Design and Develop a Rotational Solar Collector Panel for Effective Trapping of Sunlight Radiations in Order to Optimise Power Generation in Solar Energy Systems

The growth or energy demand in response to industrialization, urbanization and social affluence has led to an extremely uneven global distribution of primary energy consumption in Zambia. The Sun, Wind, Waves and geothermal heat are renewable energy sources that will never run out. They are perpetual or self-renewing. The rate of consumption does not exceed rate of renewability. The cost of generating electricity from wind and solar power has decreased by 90% over the past 20 years. Maximizing power output from a solar system is desirable to increase the efficiency of a solar tracing system, therefore, the purpose of this project is to design and develop a rotational Solar Collector Panel for effective trapping of sunlight radiations in order to optimises power generation in solar energy systems. To maximize the power output from solar panels, we need to keep the panels aligned with the sun. In this paper, the design of an efficient solar tracking system based on Real Time Clock (RTC) using microcontroller is described. The proposed tracking system is a low cost, high accurate, more efficient with low power consumption.