akaPABLO01
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Are you aware that only 15% of your solar panel is usable electricity?
This is why storage will not work at our location with solar panels. Until efficiencies in solar cells are increased to 30%. It would be financially wrong to invest.and?
Are you aware that only 15% of your solar panel is usable electricity?
Solar cell efficiencyIf your that concerned about efficiency then change your solar system there are plenty with electrical efficiency in excess of 30% with the added advantage of thermal heat as well.
Solar cell efficiency
"Well" being a not so educated statementSolar cell efficiencies are well on the way to 50%.
"Well" being a not so educated statement
what he is saying is true but the cost of these panels makes them not worth the cost of installing them. better to go for less efficient and lower cost.
This is why storage will not work at our location with solar panels. Until efficiencies in solar cells are increased to 30%. It would be financially wrong to invest.
Solar panels are being used with great success all around the UK. Lighthouses and buoys use them in life saving roles, so to say they are not worth installing, is a bit of a sweeping statement.
They are like anything else, they have their place, but not for everyone.
Totally taken my comment out of context. The type of solar system I was referring to which are useful in desert conditions are these which have been around a long time.
http://www.zenithsolar.com/ImagesFck/Zenith/file/3rd Gen PhotoVoltaic ZenithSolar Press Release.pdf
Which are far removed from the flat inefficient panels we use in this country. The only reason our flat inefficient panels are viable is because there so cheap and land area is not a constraint so efficiency is irrelevant.
Perhaps another reason is we frequently have little use for the heat produced by these systems.
They are relatively inneficient at electricity production due to the heat produced. They would work in certain situations.
There are tracking installs solar installs in the UK . 2 is fairly local to me and I suspect some on here would know whose farm they are on at Thorpe Merieux. I would love to see output figuresfor them.
It depends on what is available at the time. There is bound to be higher efficiency panels available but they will be priced accordingly. If there is no incentive at the time they will not sell. Remember when solar started over here the cost was very high. Right now the cost of panels here is about .50p a watt but it was well over £1.40 at the start