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New England just doesn't have a lot of light. The time to return on investment is commendurately longer. And in the winter it's much worse. NREL has solar avai
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
New England just doesn't have a lot of light. The time to return on investment is commendurately longer. And in the winter it's much worse.
NREL has solar availability maps. Alas the scale sucks; there's great monthly average views, but all done with the same yearly average scale, so during the summer everything is the same full-red potential (>5.75 kWh/m^2/d) and during the winter everything is (mostly) the same low potential (<4kWh/m^2/d). Still, one can kind of read some pattern from fall/spring & see how a lot of NE looks a lot like, say, Seattle (<<4 average).
https://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar-resource-maps.html https://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar-resource-maps.html