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really stupid question, street light go on when the sun sets and it is dark, at whicht point in time PV doesnt produce electricity? Or are there combinations of really good batteries and low-consumption LED lighting available????
by crankykarsten (cranky (where?) gmx dot organisation) on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 07:27:46 AM EST
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Yes, it's in combination with batteries. But, as said, contrary to MfM's intuition, such standalone applications make up only a fraction of installed photovoltaic, most of it is grid-connected.

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 07:31:25 AM EST
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cool, any links to such battery/light combos?

Yes, many big PV plants in Spain, when flying over them they look like lakes!!!

CSP has the advantage that with molten salt and buffers you could/can actually produce 24/7...

by crankykarsten (cranky (where?) gmx dot organisation) on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 08:12:18 AM EST
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[Now no more server error...]

Yes, many big PV plants in Spain

I haven't seen numbers for the distribution in Spain, but in Germany, the overwhelming majority of PV intsallations is rooftop, not free-field.

SP has the advantage that with molten salt and buffers you could/can actually produce 24/7...

That's indeed a big advantage. But, CSP is more limited geographically, and it remains to be seen whether and when it can be rolled out big-time (with multi-GW installations annually).

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 08:54:42 AM EST
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The Spanish ministry of Industry, Tourism, and commerce produces a set of annual electrical statistics.  Looking through it I'm surprised because the capacity of most of the installations are in the MW range.  Now, I don't know if this includes things on rooftops and the like.

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by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 11:17:10 AM EST
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MW range, that's large free-field (private home rooftop is in the kW range, even industrial rooftop rarely exceeds 1MW). But I'm not sure that all projects are listed: if a significant percentage is rooftop, then it would be in the tens of thousands. Do you have a link?

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 02:01:00 PM EST
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It's all in .csv format and in Spanish.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 04:59:45 PM EST
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[for some reason I get a server error when trying to respond to crankykarsten, so I reply here]

A short Google search turned up this, it's illustrated.

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 08:45:47 AM EST
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