PLEASE NOTE: While this article uses 20 years as the expected lifetime of solar panels, most warranties on solar panels are for 25-30 years, so in our calculations in other parts of our website, we now use 25 years as the expected lifetime for the purposes of calculating the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE). - ...
Smartphones, smartcars, smartTVs - everyday we seem to hear the word "smart" in front of a new word. You may have also heard about the smart grid. This one happens to be very important for the future of solar energy. In fact, without a smart grid, it is very difficult to imagine a world where ...
As we have discussed in a previous post, one of the main determinants of solar radiation at a given site is its latitude. Generally speaking, the higher the latitude, the lower the solar radiation level will be. This is purely a result of the Earth's shape: the sun's rays are distributed across a larger geographical ...