Wind energy is a source of renewable energy. It does not contaminate, it is inexhaustible and reduces the use of fossil fuels, which are the origin of greenhouse gasses that cause global warming. For these reasons, producing electricity through wind energy and its efficient use contributes to sustainable development.

Wind energy is not considered to be reliable. Electricity from wind energy must be stored (i.e. batteries). Wind turbines are a potential threat to wildlife such as birds and bats. Deforestation to set up a wind farm creates an environmental impact.

As with all energy supply options, wind energy can have adverse environmental impacts, including the potential to reduce, fragment, or degrade habitat for wildlife, fish, and plants. Furthermore, spinning turbine blades can pose a threat to flying wildlife like birds and bats.

Wind is a renewable energy source. Overall, using wind to produce energy has fewer effects on the environment than many other energy sources. Wind turbines may also reduce the amount of electricity generation from fossil fuels, which results in lower total air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions.

Wind power is more expensive than power from old, established power plants, but is cost competitive with any new power plant. Today, wind power plants can generate electricity for less than 5 cents per kilowatt-hour, a price that is competitive with new coal- or gas-fired power plants.

Solar

Per kWh, solar panels are cheaper than wind turbines. Not only is solar a cheaper way to generate power, but solar costs less when it comes to long-term maintenance because wind turbines will require more upkeep due to their many moving parts, which are more prone to breaking.

Wind is a more efficient power source than solar. Compared to solar panels, wind turbines release less CO2 to the atmosphere, consume less energy, and produce more energy overall. In fact, one wind turbine can generate the same amount of electricity per kWh as about 48,704 solar panels.

A 1.5-kilowatt wind turbine will meet the needs of a home requiring 300 kilowatt-hours per month in a location with a 14 mile-per-hour (6.26 meters-per-second) annual average wind speed. The height of a wind turbine’s tower also affects how much electricity the turbine will generate.

The new wind turbine will generate 3.4 kWh per day in an average 12 mph wind zone (Class 4). However, the local average wind speed is only about 10 mph (Class 2). So we now calculate that with these conditions, your turbine will produce an average of 2.8 kWh per day (about the equivalent of 8 solar panels).

The most efficient solar panels – IBC N-type The world’s most efficient and best performing solar panels are manufactured by SunPower and LG using IBC N-type monocrystalline silicon cells and although they are the most expensive, they are without doubt the most reliable and highest quality panels available.

Are Chinese panels lower quality than other manufacturer brands? Moving on to the question of whether solar panels manufactured in China are of lower quality than other manufacturer origins (a concern we hear frequently from homeowners), the straightforward answer is “no they are not lower quality”.

But when they examined country-specific factors for this price difference, they found that China’s historical advantage of low-cost labour was counteracted by other regional influences, and that the dominant reason behind its success is primarily the scale of solar panel manufacturing in the region, enabled by access …

Cells Duo+ or LG NeON panels are made in South Korea by South Korean owners. We have noticed that these non-Chinese manufacturers are increasingly adding more and more premium to their prices. That’s double what a top quality Chinese Huawei ‘solar & battery’ inverter costs.

Out of all the companies currently making solar panels, here are some of the top names most often associated with the best solar panels on the market:

• SunPower.
• LG.
• Panasonic.
• Silfab.
• Q CELLS.
• Canadian Solar.
• JinkoSolar.
• Trina Solar.

Solar Panel Maintenance: Cleaning your Solar Panels To ensure that they operate to their optimum capacity it’s best to get them cleaned a few times a year.