The environment awareness and increase demand for energy along with remarkable progress of inexhaustible energy technologies, has given up new opportunities for utilization of renewable energy resources. Since the beginning of this era, people have been allured by the sun that is the ultimate source of energy. The power received by Earth is many times larger than the present rate of all the energy consumption. Photovoltaic technology is one of excellent ways to use the solar power. There is an immense increase in solar power technologies. Solar power systems provide an optimal solution for generating power for residential, commercial and industrial applications. This paper aims at providing a great help to researcher to deal in solar power technologies and gives an idea regarding performance efficiency of different solar photovoltaic cell. | Solar photovoltaic technologies: An approach to sustainable energy