• antler@feddit.rocks
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    42
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    5 months ago

    As far as I know that’s nothing to write home about, monocrystaline solar panels get like ~30 years dropping down to 80% and then slowly begin to fail from there. I’m far from an expert, but my understanding is this is the norm and that if we found out they weren’t lasting this long then people would be getting worried about a messed up cost calculous.

    • viking@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      59
      ·
      5 months ago

      That’s correct, but most of those calculations were based on theoretical figures used by artificial aging methods and computed failure rates. Now we have real world data from panels that actually aged that long.