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Originally Posted by Firebot
I have no rationale for wasting taxpayer money. Solar is horrible in Canada no matter how you sugar coat it. Medicine Hat shut down theirs because it was cheaper to not use it when natural gas is so much better.
I said median in my post.  That Brooks got 10 MW in a full sunny day just at noon for about hour with 0 well over half the day at 0 is the absolute opposite of reliable. You know why? Because we have short days in the winter and late fall. The cold doesn't even come in the equation, you also have to remember you need sun lol.
https://www.dispatcho.app/live/BSC1?...0&e=1613718000
Look at that graph, Feb 3 to Feb 16 . That's what depending on solar would look like in Canada in a cold spell.
4.0%
Capacity Factor
Jan 20, 2021 0:00 - Feb 19, 2021 0:00
Beautiful efficiency! |
My previous math on this came out to, at best, 18% of nameplate capacity over a year. So Brooks is 15MW, it will average to 2.7MW or less over a year.