I'm trying to decide between 550w mono panels and 545w bifacial Longi panels. Price is nearly the same.
We have extreme winds of up to 200km/h at our off grid property. Which has us very nervous about ground mount solar. We currently have 1200watts of panels mounted on the cabin roof. It works great in the summer, but the angle is all wrong for winter as we never planned on being at the cabin in the winter. My retired parents have spent most of this winter at the cabin.
We do need to build a shed for storing the UTV, skidoos, etc... So we are considering building it with solar in mind and having a wall/roof at the optimum angle for winter solar collection. This option wouldn't be ideal for bifacial. But would the bifacial still outperform mono in this situation? Under the grey skies of winter?
If we do go ground mount, we will be putting two ~6" post in the ground between each panel and 2x4" rough lumber between the post. It would need to be very sturdy to handle the wind. So the backs of the panels will be partially blocked.
In recent years we only seem to get significant snow in February and March. Temperatures in this summer rarely go above 23C with very hot days being under 30C
Looking at adding 8 panels for atleast 4360W. Currently running a 2000W generator for 4+ hours a day in the winter. In the summer the 1200W array actually meets our needs. Our objective is to nearly never have to run the generator.
We have extreme winds of up to 200km/h at our off grid property. Which has us very nervous about ground mount solar. We currently have 1200watts of panels mounted on the cabin roof. It works great in the summer, but the angle is all wrong for winter as we never planned on being at the cabin in the winter. My retired parents have spent most of this winter at the cabin.
We do need to build a shed for storing the UTV, skidoos, etc... So we are considering building it with solar in mind and having a wall/roof at the optimum angle for winter solar collection. This option wouldn't be ideal for bifacial. But would the bifacial still outperform mono in this situation? Under the grey skies of winter?
If we do go ground mount, we will be putting two ~6" post in the ground between each panel and 2x4" rough lumber between the post. It would need to be very sturdy to handle the wind. So the backs of the panels will be partially blocked.
In recent years we only seem to get significant snow in February and March. Temperatures in this summer rarely go above 23C with very hot days being under 30C
Looking at adding 8 panels for atleast 4360W. Currently running a 2000W generator for 4+ hours a day in the winter. In the summer the 1200W array actually meets our needs. Our objective is to nearly never have to run the generator.
