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How much energy would this solar panel produce?

Rated in kilowatts, what is the maximum output of one 8 by 0 solar panel? Assume this solar panel is located at the equator for maximum sunlight.

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8 by 0 what? inches, feet, meters??
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Using MTRstudent's information of 000 watts per square meter and 5% efficiency or 50 watts per square meter, your 8 ft by 0 ft panel has 7.43605 square meters of area. A panel of this size could generate about .5 Kilowatts of electricity.
The world record efficiency for a solar panel is about 42%. At the equator, you can get up to about 000W m^-2. The efficiency of commercial cells tends to range from 0-20%. They're almost all single junction cells, so will never exceed 3% efficiency. To work out your maximum power output, multiply 000 x efficiency (as a decimal) x area covered. So an 8m x 0m solar panel would be 80 square metres. At 5% efficiency its peak output would be 2000W or 2kW. Total energy output will be different, since it won't be maximum power output all the time. In fact, it will more likely generate something like 20% of its maximum theoretical output, since the Sun won't always be overhead (and sometimes it's night!). The 2kW panel above might have a mean output of 2.4kW, or 57.6kWh/day.

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