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Solar renewable energy source has the potential to fullfill the energy demands with the groth of radiation absorvent material and futher improvement of emerging technology in upcoming years and reserchers are working on the level best. Solar Energy demand globally has been growing day-by-day and at about 30% per annum over the past 15 years. In comparison, the hydrocarbon demand growth rate is 0-2% per annum. This high growth rate in solar energy is due to many reasons � increasing cost of petroleum products and the parallel decreasing cost of producing power from solar, and a concern world over on the harmful effects of using fossil fuels. Thesis presents thermal analysis for 10 W polycrystalline solar photovoltaic modules with regard to the first and second laws of thermodynamics by taking analytical and experimental test readings at, Bhopal and observations were taken for different ambient conditions. Evaluation was done energy, exergy or availability, and power conversion efficiency of the module. This evaluation depends on various parameters like Sectral wavelength variation, solar intensity, wind speed module temperature and ambient temperature. On Earth surface temperature varies with the geographical location so its is neccessity to evaluate the thermal performance of PV module at various gegraphical location so installation facility successfulluy improved with maximum power production in an efficeint manner. Both spectral irradiation wavelength and temperature are mutually reciprocal to each other and variable in nature with earth climatic change. Energy efficiency of PV module clear day, Hazy day and cloudy day at different spectral wavelength are found to be (?en= 10.61, ?en= 6.44 and ?en= 2.17), Exergetic efficiency of polycrystalline photovoltaic module varied from (?ex = 10.01, ?ex = 7.42, ?ex = 5.32 and ?ex = 1.47) to 0.37% for different ambient conditions and power conversion efficiency (?spce) for different ambient conditions (?spce = 8.55, ?spce =6.33 and ?spce = 3.33). Through the study is clear that PV modules are very promising devices for power generation and can provide longer energy supply at lesser cost. All these evaluation and analysis will result to give recommendation that will benefit to improve the efficiency of PV module, along with making it cost effective and more compatible in today�s market and installation facilities of PV module should be prevailing at each geographic location in India so that huge amount of spectral energy can be effectively utilized into electrical energy to full fill our daily electric demand.