Snow slips off solar panels
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Snow slips off solar panels
Image: © David Hawgood Taken: 5 Feb 2012
The previous evening 8cm of snow fell in a couple of hours. We had thought it would cover the solar panels, but by midnight it had all fallen off the shiny surface. Notice the soft snow still on the myrtle on the right; there was so little wind that the soft snow stuck on the branches. The panels generated about 180 kwh in October, and about 80 in each of November, December and January.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.520784
Longitude
-0.26734