Winter cloudy days (CDs) over China exhibit significant spatiotemporal variability, greatly impacting agriculture, transportation, and the solar photovoltaic (PV) power industry. However, the physical mechanism and future changes of winter CDs in China under global warming have not been extensively explored.
Our findings provide valuable insights for policymakers in the solar PV industry, particularly in relation to the challenges faced under global warming. Winter cloudy days (CDs) over China exhibit significant spatiotemporal variability, greatly impacting agriculture, transportation, and the solar photovoltaic (PV) power industry.
Solar panels' efficiency often raises questions, especially when faced with cloudy weather. This blog aims to debunk myths surrounding solar panel performance during overcast days and shed light on how they still harness solar energy despite limited sunlight. 1. Solar Panels and Clouds: Solar panels can generate electricity even on cloudy days.
Regions that would become cloudier and less able to generate solar power include the Middle East, southern Europe, India, eastern China, Australia, and the US south-west. Areas that would generate more solar include Central and South America, the Caribbean, central and eastern US, Scandinavia and South Africa.
Because China is of a large amount of the installed solar capacity, the existing large-scale solar energy curtailment problem have greatly affected the development of the solar power industry (e.g. the investors' profits) and the long-term development of the China's clean energy policy.
As China has the world's largest installed capacity of solar energy, the development of the solar power generation in China will have a profound impact on the healthy development of the global solar power industry. Based on the China's experience, the following suggestions are given for the other countries: