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Why shouldn't it? It works just fine for Germany which gets the same amount of sunshine as southern Alaska.
by eliaspro 9y ago
Why shouldn't it? It works just fine for Germany which gets the same amount of sunshine as southern Alaska.
- acidburnNSA 9y agoThey only get like 6% of their total energy from solar. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/10/10/why-arent-renewables-decreasing-germanys-carbon-emissions/#6766188868e1 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/10/10/why-arent...
- ars 9y agoGermany has among the highest electrical prices in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Global_comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Global_com... Only some isolated Islands were higher.
- usrusr 9y agoToo close to the equator and/or lack of regular rainfall and you get problems with dust accumulation on the panels. Also, heat does not really help PV efficiency. The latitudes in Germany may not be perfect for PV, but they seem to be much less bad than one would initially expect. (I do find PV-covered landscapes visually less appealing than wind farms though, but of course PV must be much less annoying to live close nearby, haven't tried either. PV is competing with agriculture in a way that wind does not, so maybe we shouldn't overdo PV buildup on arable land..)