alt Hacker NewsHow viable is Solar in Canada given its weather? (I am ignorant about it and only know that it's really cold and cloudy most of the time).
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_whiteCaps_ • yesterday at 9:53 PM
Cold is fine - solar panels perform better the lower the temperature.
That's what makes Calgary ideal for solar.
sleepyguy • yesterday at 9:46 PM
A city like Calgary gets 233 days of sunny days a year. All across the prairies there is plenty of days filled with sun. British Columbia would probably not be great (like Seattle) but they could probably generate wind and hydro.
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Alberta is one of the best locales for solar on the continent -- it's sunny most of the year -- and had an exploding renewables sector.
Until the far right O&G lobbyist provincial government kneecapped the sector.