2.25PWh of generation has no concept of peak usage. It is just electricity. It may not be as useful 24/7 as steady state electricity, but it is just electricity. You count it. You work around its inefficiencies. There are grid problems. etc.
Old, small not-really-utility scale
Old, small not-really-utility scale
https://twitter.com/WEschenbach/status/1437844691987271680
farms in any modern sense of the word featured in the up-to-2012 data collected for that 2013 NREL report cited do not compete with modern, existing farms for which we have data.
2.25PWh is 1350x the output of the nearly 10yr old Solar Star Farm which is on 3200 acres.
2.25PWh is 1350x the output of the nearly 10yr old Solar Star Farm which is on 3200 acres.
Total of 1350x3200 acres is 6750 sqm. Other large farms are reasonably similar. As also noted repeatedly, Solar Star is not the most efficient in panels or land use. It's old. But it exists.
More modern empirical data exists. One just has to look a little harder for it.
More modern empirical data exists. One just has to look a little harder for it.
As to whether it is possible, W says 483GW of nameplate capacity required - "not remotely possible" in 28yrs. But China will install 480GW that in the next 8yrs.
[In the real world, 483GW of capacity won't produce 2.25PWh/yr. Nasty empirical data again. need 60-100% more.]
[In the real world, 483GW of capacity won't produce 2.25PWh/yr. Nasty empirical data again. need 60-100% more.]
Have at it.
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