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6 hours of daylight, then you need to over-provision the solar so you can charge 18 hours worth of batteries in that time. This is still cost competitive with nuclear


It is way worse than “6 hours of daylight” due to the lower angle of the sun.

I don’t know the numbers for southern Sweden but for Stockholm level you get maybe 5% to 10% of the production you get in the summer.

Here in Finland we have it even worse but I know where to find the numbers.

https://www.fingrid.fi/en/electricity-market-information/sol...

Basically if we are lucky we hit 5% of a typical summer day for an hour maybe two. As the days are less then half as long you end up with ~1% the production vs summer.

But in reverse the panels are really good during the summer as the days are very long. This is why people bother installing solar here.


Is it really? Including the batteries?

And we're still ignoring the fact that many days you'll get barely any direct sunlight during those 6 hours of "daylight"




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