solar energy

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]‎, 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.

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

• energy
  • renewable energy

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