The first map shows the installed solar energy capacity per person for each country.
The second shows the efficiency of the 10% most efficient land per country.
I think its very important to tackle this from the EU and not each member state by itself. Money from Germany or the Netherlands is much better spent in Italy or Portugal, as it will produce much more electricity.
I love it when colours are deliberately turned around to flip the impression. Red is generally connected for most with ‘danger, bad, worse than’ which is why we use it as ‘stop’ in traffic lights etc.
It is such a cheap marketing trick.
Saldering goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
It’s sad that the panels efficiency is still I around 22%
So you make up for the lack of sun by adding panels
Spain already has the ‘duck curve effect’, solar energy production gets so big during dayling that the price of energy falls to zero, making it nonsense to invest in this technology. Batteries for storage are not cost effective enough. So, up to now, solar energy investments have limits
Would be interested to see, how many of those solar panels are private, and not big corps, or goverments.
Solar efficiency decreases from south to north.
The south of Germany offers more solar efficiency than the north of France.
Install solar energy in the south of Germany, and wind in the north.
Belgium had huge subsidies for people who installed solar panels for a long time. Making it an investment that relatively quickly paid itself back.
Watts per capita is a terrible metric for displaying what you are trying to display. Something like installed W per square km makes a lot more sense
In Spain we have a thing called private energy companies, that preffer to not invest in solar energy because they get paid way more by producing energy with coal, because they charge you the light by the most expensive source they have, even if represents only a 1%. Wich is made in propouse to make people pay as mutch as possible, that’s because almost all retired corrupted politicians end up in energy companies, making laws to enforce them when they are in charge.
Seeing EU maps with norway just missin looks weird af
The second map doesn’t really do justice to Finland. Southwestern Finland has as much solar potential as northern Germany or the Netherlands but northern parts of our country are keeping the average down.
Oh the sunny Holland.
There are ppl who have lots of sun and there are ppl who can afford solar panels
Wait Netherlands is- nor-nor-nordic?
I am once again asking for Dutch colonisation.
Now do “Installed Solar Panels vs Break Even Time”.
Taking into account incentives, tax schemes, net-metering possibilities, etc.
100% the result of good policy and little to do with weather.
My boy Croatia sunny and poor.
This is pretty updated though. Spain has increased capacity by like 40% since
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The first map shows the installed solar energy capacity per person for each country.
The second shows the efficiency of the 10% most efficient land per country.
I think its very important to tackle this from the EU and not each member state by itself. Money from Germany or the Netherlands is much better spent in Italy or Portugal, as it will produce much more electricity.
From: https://x.com/Horizonomics/status/1781673131318411453
I love it when colours are deliberately turned around to flip the impression. Red is generally connected for most with ‘danger, bad, worse than’ which is why we use it as ‘stop’ in traffic lights etc.
It is such a cheap marketing trick.
Saldering goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
It’s sad that the panels efficiency is still I around 22%
So you make up for the lack of sun by adding panels
Spain already has the ‘duck curve effect’, solar energy production gets so big during dayling that the price of energy falls to zero, making it nonsense to invest in this technology. Batteries for storage are not cost effective enough. So, up to now, solar energy investments have limits
Would be interested to see, how many of those solar panels are private, and not big corps, or goverments.
Solar efficiency decreases from south to north.
The south of Germany offers more solar efficiency than the north of France.
Install solar energy in the south of Germany, and wind in the north.
Belgium had huge subsidies for people who installed solar panels for a long time. Making it an investment that relatively quickly paid itself back.
(Thats over now)
cries in Belgium
Ireland aka Hibernia (Latin root Hiber: stormy, of/for winter time/rainy season)
Watts per capita is a terrible metric for displaying what you are trying to display. Something like installed W per square km makes a lot more sense
In Spain we have a thing called private energy companies, that preffer to not invest in solar energy because they get paid way more by producing energy with coal, because they charge you the light by the most expensive source they have, even if represents only a 1%. Wich is made in propouse to make people pay as mutch as possible, that’s because almost all retired corrupted politicians end up in energy companies, making laws to enforce them when they are in charge.
Seeing EU maps with norway just missin looks weird af
The second map doesn’t really do justice to Finland. Southwestern Finland has as much solar potential as northern Germany or the Netherlands but northern parts of our country are keeping the average down.
Oh the sunny Holland.
There are ppl who have lots of sun and there are ppl who can afford solar panels
Wait Netherlands is- nor-nor-nordic?
I am once again asking for Dutch colonisation.
Now do “Installed Solar Panels vs Break Even Time”.
Taking into account incentives, tax schemes, net-metering possibilities, etc.
100% the result of good policy and little to do with weather.
My boy Croatia sunny and poor.
This is pretty updated though. Spain has increased capacity by like 40% since
Wth Spain? Put that sunshine to work!