A study of solar electricity generation potential suggests that, compared with urban solar panel placement, placement in snow-covered mountains with steep tilt angles could generate similar amounts of energy with less surface area, and could shift a large fraction of electricity production from summer to winter months without compromising total annual production, thereby reducing the seasonal mismatch between electricity demand and production.
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Article #17-20808: "The bright side of PV production in snowcovered mountains," by Annelen Kahl, Jerome Dujardin, and Michael Lehning.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences