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> I don't get why solar is so popular.

> In more northern regions, you get much less light in the winter. You effectively can only generate around one tenth of the energy you can in the summer - this is from experience talking to others who monitor their solar installations.

When we looked at installing solar on our house in Sweden the calculations showed that in winter we'd produce about 20% of the power IIRC. I just had a look for a source and I could only found this [1] which might be more like 10%. That said Sweden is quite extreme, all of the US save Alaska get much more sunlight in winter.

[1] https://adelsfors.se/2022/12/29/solar-vs-wind-power-in-swede...



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