Comment on Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 79.5% of original output power
DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Those are way more interesting than this single installation with -0.66%:
“Another more recent study carried out by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on 1,700 American sites totaling 7.2 GW of power, showed a median degradation of around -0.75%/year. Moveover, another research focused on 4,300 residential installations in operation in Europe and used different data processing methodologies. Depending on the methods, a median loss of -0.36% to -0.67%/year was obtained.”
Also the article doesn’t mention standard deviation or IQR of the drop, or what efficiency they originally had. Which is the minimum of information I would expect.
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You are totally right. Median and average alone mean shit without each other and without deviation, and such article like this is considered by me a manipulation without further correctness check. The same shit is with journalists confuckulating percentages with percentage points.
In over 10 years I was made aware of these practices by my university professor I haven’t found a single article which got that right.