Comments on: Average Size of Solar in the United States: Small http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/08/average-size-of-solar-in-the-united-states-small/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 10:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/08/average-size-of-solar-in-the-united-states-small/#comment-136460 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:13:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=43726#comment-136460 Perhaps most solar systems are being installed in places that have more solar hours than at your latitude.

You’re generalizing from the second lowest solar hour part of the lower 48 to the entire 48 states. Just moving from Zone 5 (4.2 solar hours) to Zone 4 (4.5 solar hours) drops the required system size to 8kW.

]]> By: Stan Stein http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/08/average-size-of-solar-in-the-united-states-small/#comment-136457 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:11:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=43726#comment-136457 Hey, where’d those figures come from? If a family has a $200 electric bill, on the latitude Pa/Nj is on, it would take 10kw, not, 5 to produce that amount of power…..unless the utility was only charging .06 delivered….which no one does…..here, PECO is .18 delivered……there is no point in stats which exclude delivery costs in a comparitative analysis, because it is in the billing price….
34kw, will power only 3.4 homes with an average electric bill of $200….that’s the average bill, yr round…..for homes with other than electric heat…..less in the winter….much more in the summer due to air conditioning.
These stats are readily available, please make sure you inform the readers, using accurate stats…..Clean Technica shoulod, mideally, provide as, or more realistic info than the regular newspapers.

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