You sometimes see newspaper headlines to the effect that, say, a 50 megawatt solar power plant is being constructed. But you shouldn t count on getting anything remotely approaching 50 megawatts of power from such an installation. Energy expert Isaac Orr explains: Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that production from solar panels plummets in the winter. The graph below shows the percentage of electricity generated by solar
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