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The Price Per Watt Will Drive Solar Main Stream

Solar Energy Land Area Efficiency or How Many Acres per MW, kWp per Acre

Solar Photovoltaic ParkSolar power alongside the applauding it gets it is also being criticized by the opponents of it especially in terms of the different measures of efficiency – physical, economic (investment) and land area use efficiency. Land area use efficiency is the topic of this study. Let’s look at the definito0ns for the other measures of efficiency just to put our essay in proper context.

A Short Science Lesson for Journalists – Watts, Kilowatts, Megawatts, Kilowatt Hours.

Electric Meter Showing Power in kW and Energy in kWhWith us having to research so much information about solar and other renewable energy we came across an enormous number of articles in which no respect is given to the units of measure in which electric power and energy are being measured. In actual fact when the correct units of measure are not used the statements do not make any sense.

What do we mean? Much too often watt hour (Wh) and the derivatives kilowatts hour (kWh) and megawatts hour (MWh) – as a measure of produced energy – are used wrongly instead of watt (W) or it’s derivatives kilowatt (kW) and megawatt (MW) and the other way around.