Do Solar Panels Use Mirrors

This might be less intuitive but manufacturing and installing solar panels is a pretty straight forward process.

Do solar panels use mirrors.

Student from nigeria where solar illumination is not a problem but the use to be between 35 oc to 40 oc which highly affect the performance of solar panels. I am intending to use the same principle but in case i want to shade the solar panel leaving the reflecting mirror in direct solar radiation to reduce the panel temperature. A solar mirror contains a substrate with a reflective layer for reflecting the solar energy and in most cases an interference layer this may be a planar mirror or parabolic arrays of solar mirrors used to achieve a substantially concentrated reflection factor for solar energy systems. See article heliostat for more information on solar mirrors used for terrestrial energy.

In this receiver a fluid is heated and used to generate steam. I am an m sc. Concentrated solar power csp also known as concentrating solar power concentrated solar thermal systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a receiver. Electricity is generated when the concentrated light is converted to heat solar thermal energy which drives a heat engine usually a steam turbine connected to an electrical power.

Aside from the damage described in the other answers there are a few other compelling reasons not to take this approach. A solar power tower is a system that converts energy from the sun in the form of sunlight into electricity that can be used by people by using a large scale solar setup. The setup includes an array of large sun tracking mirrors known as heliostats that focus sunlight on a receiver at the top of a tower.