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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone know of a site that tracks the typical GWh of these big installations?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like capacity x capacity factor, e.g. if your 100MW site produces power 50% of the time (because of nighttime, clouds, etc) then it would produce, over the course of a year 100,000,000 x 24 x 365 x 0.5 = 438 GWh annually (very simplified).

[–] Hugohase@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I always use a factor of 1200 as approximation e.g. 1GW produses 1.2 TWh per year but thats very very rough.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yup, typically I just mentally multiply by 1000 (nice round numbers). But obviously a 100MW farm in the Sahara is going to produce more in a year than the same 100MW farm in Germany. It’d be cool to see a list on a global scale that showed a table and maybe generation vs demand curves for the area they serve. Maybe I’ll put it on my “projects I’ll never get to” list.

[–] Hugohase@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Maybe you can get something out of here