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Remote possibilities

If the Canadian Arctic strikes you as a place that doesn’t have enough sunlight for PV, you wouldn’t necessarily be correct. Although there are periods of 24-hour darkness in winter, there are locations with sufficient sunlight for PV to make a major dent in remote communities’ diesel consumption, reports Anteo Petkovic, from Green Sun Rising.

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pv magazine

10 Feb 2020

Image: Green Sun Rising

In the territory of Nunavut, in Canada’s far north, PV arrays can capture up to 24 hours of sunlight per day during the longest days of summer. Many communities in northern Canada have begun to integrate solar energy to reduce the environmental and financial impacts of their reliance on diesel to generate electricity. These projects …

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