Posted on 06/16/2021 12:30:10 PM PDT by PGR88
kWh Analytics’ most recent figures place the median annual degradation for residential solar systems as 1.09% and non-residential systems at 0.8%. The report states that over a 20-year asset life, project degradation could therefore be underestimated by as much as 14%, resulting in severely overestimated performance and revenue forecasts produced within a P50 model.
(Excerpt) Read more at pv-tech.org ...
Solar and wind are interruptible supplies and should never ever be in a peak day portfolio. See Texas and California blackouts.
That’s far more than “a few engineering problems” ... Better would be to put the collection device near the sun and run an extension cord ... :)
Sure the early ones...but we had some in the next generation go five years so they are getting better...I think it was the lithium batteries that failed so I’m not sure if the solar cells were really at fault.
Degrading panels “ultimately damages the industry’s collective credibility.”
Well, solar industry does not and should not have credibility, since solar panels are weak, expensive and non-efficient. It takes 75 years for one solar panel to pay for itself.
Nuclear reactors and oil refineries are the strongest, cheapest and most efficient generators of power.
Well, see, we’ll put up these big celestial mierors to bring in more light to make up for the degradation. Then we’ll spread an atmospheric layer of SO2 to overcome the heating, and then...
Made in China: Supplies, supplies, supplies.
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