英語検定ライティング準１級（第65回）

タイトル「太陽光はパネル以外の発電はあるのか？」

Yes, this suggestion is supportable.
This reason makes the opinion acceptable.

化石燃料の燃焼は炭酸ガスを排出する。地球温暖化の原因の１つと言われている。それで再生可能エネルギーが注目されているのだが、その中に太陽光も含まれる。
Burning fossil fuels is said to be one of the causes that too much carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, which is called “global warming phenomenon,” a kind of climate change.
In order to overcome this critical situation, not a few experts have paid close attention to renewable energy sources, which includes sunlight, wind power, water power and so on.

太陽光をダイレクトに電気に変換できる太陽光パネルが一般的には利用されている。東京では新築の建造物には屋根にパネルを設置することが義務付けらるらしい。
Talking of solar power generation, making use of solar panels is widespread and popular because they can change sunlight into electricity directly.
Solar panels will be forced to be installed on new buildings constructed in Tokyo from now on, an article says.

その発電にはいろいろと欠点がある。初期費用とメンテナンス費用は高額で、それを回収するのにかなりの期間がかかる。詐欺業者に騙されたという話もよく聞く。
Solar panel generation has several disadvantages : both initial expenses and maintenance ones take so much money, which a consumer finds it almost impossible to collect in a short while.
In addition, we frequently hear that not a few purchasers have been involved in a fraud case.

太陽光を利用する発電はパネルだけではない。アフリカの砂漠では、太陽光の熱を利用して水蒸気をつくり、それでタービンを回す発電所もあるということだ。
Solar power generation can be fulfilled without using solar panels, and there is actually a solar power plant where much vapor produced with sunlight’s heat spins turbines to generate a large amount of electricity in the desert in Africa, an article says.

それは将来的にはヨーロッパの電力をもカバーする予定がある。いろいろメリットがあるようで、昼間に蓄えておいた熱を利用すれば夜間でも発電できるのだ。
A large amount of energy described above would cover most electricity consumed in several European nations in the near future, which has various advantages : a solar power plant there could generate much electricity during the night time when it takes advantage of sunlight’s heat stored during the daytime.

その発電所で作られた電気で海水を真水に変えれば、農業用水としても利用できる。それは砂漠における農業の収穫に役立つということで地域にも貢献している。
People in Africa could change ocean water into clean water by making use of electricity produced at the power plant, which a large number of farmers can use it as agricultural water to obtain abundant harvests.
Such a power plant has made positive contributions to the local economy in a profitable viewpoint in Africa.

This reason makes the question titled above favorable.