Square Kilometers Of Solar Panels

There are 1 2 million square kilometers of farmland in china.

Square kilometers of solar panels.

The thin film solar panels cover an area of 4 square meters and the cover itself is integrated into the body of the car so at the flick of a switch it can be rolled out retracted and safely stored. This is 2 1 2 times the area of solar farm required to power the world in 2030. June 7 2020 at 10 01 am suppose that there are solar panels with 20 conversion efficiency. It doesn t take into account the possibility of future systems with higher efficiencies that could reduce the land footprint needed.

So 200 mw peak output and 400 million cost. Depends on the details. Given 1kw of panels produces 1642 kwh per year in ca and 1kw of panels takes up 68 42 square feet solar panels installed in california on average produce 23 99 kwh kilowatt hours per square foot per year. But to be on the safe side you should have an area of 30 square meters available.

Whether solar requires 10 000 or 100 000 square kilometers the point is to illustrate that the technology exists to facilitate a transition. Conventional panels cost 2 per watt installed and produce 200 watts per square meter. This analysis goes. Average capital utilisation is 18 8 in north america according to doe eia so 32 96 million.

You can use the table of solar power production per kw for each state above to do the same math for your state. Solar panels on houses. Compare it to the saharan desert. And the solar estimate of 50 000 square kilometers of course is with solar systems already deployed.

The saharan desert is 9 064 958 square kilometers or 18 times the total required area to fuel the world. Solar power is a gigawatt per square km. All you need is a 100 by 100 mile patch in a deserted corner of arizona texas or utah or anywhere to more than power the entire usa.