PV north facing in US [RE-wrenches]

[Michael Welch]

Hey Jay. Right in your own back yard. Arcata H.S. installed two identical arrays earlier this year with the partial intent to test north facing array performance. One faces permanently south, and the other can be rotated north (tilt angle unknown to me). The arrays were performing nearly identically facing south. They recently moved the rotatable array north, and it began out-performing the south-facing one! Go figure.

Obviously something is wacko, and they are working to figure it out. But, expect some real-world test data in the future.

Jay Peltz, Peltz Power wrote at 07:34 AM 07/24/2003:
  
>I think this issue points out the lack of real field data on how PV systems
>really work.
>
>Is there nobody outhere who has this kind of data?,, real world tested data? 

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