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Old 03-30-2018, 09:48 AM   #1235 (permalink)
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I have a question.

Is a power plant of a given X watts value (like 10)KW) refered to the type and quantity of solar panels ?. Is this value refered as the summatory of the solar panels output (in ideal sun condition), even that it don't work at noght or almost nothing in heavy cloud rain weather ?

For example, If I placed 100 solar panels of 250W each one, will this be a 25000W (25KW) solar power plant ?
I suspect it's not, because if was so a identical system on sahara desert and one identical in Finland, would produce a very different final output per month.
Yes pretty much.
Then when you start charging batteries or transmitting the power long distance, overall losses are even higher.
A remote solar farm would have transmission losses of up to 20%. This is where individual roof top solar grid tie systems win big and the huge government funded projects lose.
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