Solar Eclipse And How Does It Affect Solar Panels

Solar power is becoming an increasingly dominant source of energy and so while it might be strange to consider the impact of infrequent phenomena like eclipses as solar energy rises in.

Solar eclipse and how does it affect solar panels.

This causes the energy production to rapidly increase. But in places that are becoming more reliant on solar power like germany grid operators are paying attention to and planning for upcoming eclipses. As the shadow of the moon covered the sunlight rapidly it also reduces the amount of energy being produced by the solar panels. The graphs below show a normal sunny august morning s energy output vs the output on the morning of the eclipse and as you can see when it would normally be producing about 5 700 watts the array bottomed out at just above 200 watts.

As the solar eclipse started to end the shadow slowly moves away from the solar panels. In that instance germany saw a dip from 21 7 gw to 6 2 gw during the duration of the eclipse but was still able to provide the power needed by the german people. Power companies watched the 2015 european eclipse carefully to see what impact if any the eclipse had on the much more heavily solar dependent countries like germany.