11 May 2021, 08:05 am Solar Panels are one of the innovations that are being focused on to help reduce energy consumption across the globe. This technology allows people to convert sunlight into electric energy. However, some of the current solar cell products have limitations that prevent its people to use their full potential. (Photo : Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Night settles over solar panals at Solarmine, the first solar photovoltaic facility in California to help power oil field operations, on July 8, 2003 near Taft, California, 40 miles west of Bakersfield. Solarmine is a new six-acre demonstration project installed by the ChevronTexaco subsidiary, Chevron Energy Solutions, (Chevron ES) in collaboration with United Solar Systems Corp. (Uni-Solar), a subsidiary of Michigan-based Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD).