Comment on Solar PV Installations Will Reach Up To 660 Gigawatts In 2024 - CleanTechnica

• will_a113@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like capacity x capacity factor, e.g. if your 100MW site produces power 50% of the time (because of nighttime, clouds, etc) then it would produce, over the course of a year 100,000,000 x 24 x 365 x 0.5 = 438 GWh annually (very simplified).

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  • Hugohase@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always use a factor of 1200 as approximation e.g. 1GW produses 1.2 TWh per year but thats very very rough.

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    • will_a113@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup, typically I just mentally multiply by 1000 (nice round numbers). But obviously a 100MW farm in the Sahara is going to produce more in a year than the same 100MW farm in Germany. It’d be cool to see a list on a global scale that showed a table and maybe generation vs demand curves for the area they serve. Maybe I’ll put it on my “projects I’ll never get to” list.

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      • Hugohase@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe you can get something out of here

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