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by jprd
849 days ago
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When I worked at Malta 5y ago, that parking lot was too small. If you didn't get in at an early hour, you were parking in the gravel lots that are off this picture to the right. Combine that with the actual size of the Fab, hella lot of walking :) As for solar panels, the Fab operates 24/7/364 (usually 1 downtime day a year). Which means even with the large amounts of snow that will build-up in the winter, there are always cars in the lot - clearing that is a big job and not sure how to do it with solar panels. |
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I'm not sure how much sense it'll make in this specific case, but in general, interestingly, with a high albedo (e.g. snow covered or white for some other reason) ground surface, vertically mounted bifacial panels produce very close to equator facing panels with the appropriate tilt. The value of that generation might actually be greater, as it obviously spreads out the profile towards the evening peaks.
For the regular horizontal/tilted ground mounts, NY is quite far north, so you're looking at a mount angle of 43° or so to optimise overall power production, and you can go about 15° more tilt and only lose maybe 1 or 2% of summer production, but increase production in winter when the sun is angled lower. If you go for like 55° to 58° tilt, there's probably not going to be very much snow accumulating on the panels themselves.