QUOTE(jswong @ Jun 4 2010, 05:58 PM)
100kWh!!! Are you sure about that? If a solar panel was 100% efficient and could capture 100% of the sun's spectrum, and could track the sun through the sky so that it's always incident against the sun, it would take 100 square meters of these solar panels to produce that much power.
If it's a fixed installation that doesn't track the sun, you'll need 400 square meters to generate 100kWh.
But since polycrystalline solar cells can only capture 20% of the sun's spectrum, we'll actually need 2000 square meters to generate 100kWh on a totally sunny cloudless day.
RM90k is a bargain for 2000 square meters of polycrystalline solar cells! Is it a subsidized price? Such as the solar panels under that TNB's BIPV subsidy program?
The efficiency rating for solar panels takes into account the spectrum IIRC. That was a mistake I used to make myself.If it's a fixed installation that doesn't track the sun, you'll need 400 square meters to generate 100kWh.
But since polycrystalline solar cells can only capture 20% of the sun's spectrum, we'll actually need 2000 square meters to generate 100kWh on a totally sunny cloudless day.
RM90k is a bargain for 2000 square meters of polycrystalline solar cells! Is it a subsidized price? Such as the solar panels under that TNB's BIPV subsidy program?
reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell#En...sion_efficiency , and standard test conditions are defined here http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/spectra/am1.5/ . So yeah, it's not going to be that bad.
Jun 7 2010, 12:34 PM

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