Solar Eclipse And How Does It Affect Solar Panels

On august 21 a solar eclipse will obscure the sunlight needed to generate electricity at approximately 1 900 utility scale solar pv power plants in the u s.

Solar eclipse and how does it affect solar panels.

As the solar eclipse started to end the shadow slowly moves away from the solar panels. This causes the energy production to rapidly increase. As the shadow of the moon covered the sunlight rapidly it also reduces the amount of energy being produced by the solar panels. In that instance germany saw a dip from 21 7 gw to 6 2 gw during the duration of the eclipse but was still able to provide the power needed by the german people.

Solar power is becoming an increasingly dominant source of energy and so while it might be strange to consider the impact of infrequent phenomena like eclipses as solar energy rises in. While solar power is still a small albeit rapidly growing contributor to the grid solar eclipses won t have a major impact on our electricity supply. Likewise solar panels demonstrated the decrease in energy with mathematical precision.