solar energy

English

Noun

solar energy (uncountable)

1. Energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation emitted from the Sun; especially that part of this energy that is converted into usable thermal or electrical energy by man.
   • 1981 December 6, “Imports planned to meet energy needs”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[1], volume XXII, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

     The Energy Research Institute under the Industrial Technological Research Institute has decided to build the nation’s first solar energy plant at Chutung Township in Hsinchu county.

   • 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:

     Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.

Synonyms

• solar power (broadly synonymous despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit))

Hypernyms

• energy
  • renewable energy

Coordinate terms

• nuclear energy
• water power (broadly coordinate despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit))
• wind energy

Translations

energy from the sun

• Afrikaans: sonenergie
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太陽能 / 太阳能 (zh) (tàiyángnéng)

• Danish: solenergi (da) c
• Dutch: zonne-energie (nl) f
• Esperanto: sunenergio, suna energio
• Finnish: aurinkoenergia (fi)
• French: énergie solaire (fr) f
• Georgian: მზის ენერგია (mzis energia)
• German: Sonnenenergie (de) f, Solarenergie (de) f
• Hebrew: אנרגיה סולארית f (energiya solarit)
• Hungarian: napenergia (hu)
• Italian: energia solare f, elioenergia (it) f
• Japanese: 太陽エネルギー (ja) (taiyō enerugī)
• Korean: 태양 에너지 (taeyang eneoji)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: enerjiya tavê (ku) f, enerjiya rojê (ku) f

• Latvian: saules enerģija f
• Limburgish: zóninnerzjie (li) f
• Macedonian: сончева енергија f (sončeva energija), соларна енергија f (solarna energija)
• Maori: pūngao kōmaru
• Mongolian: нарны эрчим хүч (narny erčim xüč)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: solenergi m

  Nynorsk: solenergi m

• Portuguese: energia solar f
• Russian: со́лнечная эне́ргия f (sólnečnaja enérgija)
• Spanish: energía solar (es) f
• Swahili: nguvu ya jua, kawi ya sola
• Swedish: solenergi (sv) c
• Telugu: సౌరశక్తి (te) (sauraśakti)
• Vietnamese: năng lượng mặt trời
• West Frisian: sinne-enerzjy c