St Clement s Retreat And Conference Centre - 1615 Words

St Clement’s Retreat Conference Centre is located at Galong, where is between Yass and Harden NSW. There is nearly one and a half hour’s drive from Canberra. Also it is close to train routes. It covers an area of 800 acres in a peaceful place where also has picturesque scenery [1]. This retreat and conference centre can offer air conditioned accommodation with modern facilities. It is an ideal center for prayer, study and reflection. Figure 1 shows the map of St Clement’s Retreat and Conference center. This retreat and conference center includes accommodation, prayer rooms, dining rooms, chapels, pool, library and other living facilities. St Clement’s history can go back to 1918, it was the home for priests of Redemptorist Congregation.†¦show more content†¦In order to meet the energy demand and a sustainable future, renewable energy is a better way to achieve it. Commonly, renewable energy is defined as energy which is able to be captured from existing natural resources that are replenished rapidly, such as flowing water, sunshine, wind, geothermal heat flows and ocean [2]. Renewable energy technologies are required to provide technologies to use one or several renewable energy resources. There are some different types of renewable energy technologies, which include solar energy, bioenergy, hydropower, wind energy, geothermal energy and tidal energy. This thesis project will focus on the solar photovoltaic which is currently one of types of solar energy technologies, and this technology using photovoltaic cells to converts sunlight directly into electricity.Solar photovoltaic system can generate electricity from sunlight through using PV modules, and the system can be integrated into building designs, installed on rooftops, or large scale power plant. With the development of photovoltaic technologies, solar photovoltaic capacity has been incr eased from 3.7 GW (2004) to 177GW (2014) [3]. Figure 2 shows this change from 2004 to 2014, there is a big trend of increase in these years. The increase of PV capacity can reduce the carbon emission and provides more job opportunities. It also helps to reduce air pollution and make a friendly environment for living. One of the common PV system is