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dzonga • yesterday at 4:45 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

I have said it before in another comment - on a related post.

It's wild that Southern US which gets most of the sun - has relatively little solar compared to the North - which gets less sun days - but has more solar.

the damage politics has done to the US is crazy n sad.

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Jblx2 • yesterday at 7:33 PM

Is this blog potentially suspect/misleading? Up-thread someone pointed out another source for PV production with rankings:

  1 - California
  2 - Texas
  3 - Florida
  4 - Arizona
  5 - North Carolina
  6 - Nevada
  7 - New York
https://seia.org/solar-state-by-state/

And here's a different source for residential PV:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1419901/us-residential-g...

  1 - California
  2 - Arizona
  3 - Texas
  4 - Florida
  5 - New York
Is there any chance that people are jumping to incorrect conclusions?
rootusrootus • yesterday at 5:25 PM

Optimistically, I would expect to see more panels in raw numbers up north due to necessarily overbuilding the capacity to account for fewer sun-hours per year.

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