The goal of this project is to acquaint the reader with problems of solar cells and project of systems for solar cells power a small electric machine performance. Preliminary discussion of the energy produced by the Sun incident on the Earth. Another chapter contains information about the fundamental function of solar silicon cells and conversion of solar energy to electric energy. Main part of this work is devoted to various types of solar cells, production materials, the structure of cells and solar panel. The last part is a measurement system for solar cells, the verification of theoretical assumptions and evaluate the results of the work