In recent years, growing attention on renewable energy has risen significantly. Particularly, solar energy has gained popularity among households around the world in view of saving households expenses. However, I consider drawbacks of solar energy are greater than the advantages.
Admittedly, compared to purchasing energy from companies, houses which produce energy at home can save money more than those. This is because they have no need to be supplied energy from companies as they are eligible to generate power at home. As a result, solar energy is especially popular in Tokyo, where inflation has been pressuring individuals finance. In Tokyo, many houses set up solar panels to generate energy and harness those energy at house.
Nevertheless, I believe that shortcomings of solar energy outweigh the advantages of solar energy. Solar energy is expensive in view of installing and maintaining the solar panel which is essential on generating solar energy from the sunlight. For example, majority of houses set up solar energy on the roof top. At the time of preparation, owners have to incur costs on solar panels, which are expensive and owners place solar panels as many as they can, because the more solar panels, the more energy they gain. Also, setting solar panels on the roof requires special equipment and professionals to place those. Moreover, after setting up the solar panels, owners still have to pay expensive money on maintenance in order to generate power efficiently.
Another disadvantage is that solar energy is unstable in producing energy. As solar energy is generated only from sunlight, the amount of energy generation fluctuate dramatically day by day. Especially, during night time and winter season, the levels of solar energy decrease exponentially as lack of sunlight cause less energy generation. Therefore, the levels of energy produced by solar energy is unstable in view of weather and time.
In conclusion, solar energy is globally popular among houses as it possible to harness energy that produced in household and save money from that. However, there are drawbacks: it is expensive in installing and maintaining solar panels, as well as instability of energy generation caused by verified levels of sunlight.