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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by kragen on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:34PM (#33928862)
it's true that you get 100% of the sunlight that falls on the land, or near enough (albedo is not literally zero at any angle) but you need more solar panels per output watt

it'll be interesting to know if they're derating the nameplate capacity by cos(latitude) as they should be

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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by tuatoru on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:28PM (#33929183)
Their agreements with their local grid operator will specify power delivery. Marketing numbers like an individual panel's nameplate output are not important at utility scale, which this is designed for.
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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by kragen on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:53PM (#33929353)
probably the local transmission companies are interested in not only average ouptut but peak output, but also, there were a number of numbers in the article cited as "per watt" which look like they might be talking about peak watts
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