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Uninformed speculation: maybe because the places where it's windy are not necessarily the places where it's sunny (and vice versa).
by bfstein 9y ago
Uninformed speculation: maybe because the places where it's windy are not necessarily the places where it's sunny (and vice versa).
- CydeWeys 9y agoThat's definitely part of it, but as solar panel prices continue to fall I suspect that the marginal cost of adding on solar panels to a wind installation will be low enough to justify it even in sub-optimal sunlight conditions. You've already got the land and the power transmission infrastructure taken care of, so it's just the additional cost of the panels. It could start making sense.
- eagletusk 9y agoExactly, anywhere plants grow you can put solar, Germany has one of the highest concentrations of solar but pretty dismal sun. Germany stopped building Neuclear Plants and didn't like buying Natural Gas from Russia, so they basically invented the modern Renewable industry.
- tgjsrkghruksd 9y agoSometimes, other times it's just wind farms are put in by companies who do wind farms and buy those rights, often from regular farmers, who continue to farm around the turbines. If you put in solar, then there's nothing left to farm. Though for grain crops solar is likely going to be more profitable on an acreage basis.