Since ancient times, sunlight has been used by humans as a source of energy passively, either for homes or to build greenhouses and generate the right conditions for the growth of exotic plants or seeds. Throughout the history of humanity, technologies have been developed for the proper use of this energy.
It is in the last decade of the twentieth century that solar energy began to be considered as an alternative to the use of hydrocarbons as an energy source, becoming a category of renewable energy, since it does not exhaust, does not pollute and also has a use potential in spaces from self-consumption to large industrial plants.