You know how dark solar panels are?
You know that they heat up?... and trap heat from the sun that would otherwise be reflected back, like in "huge solar plants in deserts"?
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35070
However, this effect is much lower when you compare a PV installation with a parking lot, so it makes sense to cover parking lots in PV panels, thur providing shade to cars and further lowering the need to use AC to cool down a car that spent hours in the scorching sun.
You know that they heat up?... and trap heat from the sun that would otherwise be reflected back, like in "huge solar plants in deserts"?
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35070
Quote:The Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect: Larger solar power plants increase local temperatures :
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Average annual temperature was 22.7 + 0.5 °C in the PV installation, while the nearby desert ecosystem was only 20.3 + 0.5 °C, indicating a PVHI effect.
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The results presented here demonstrate that the PVHI effect is real and can significantly increase temperatures over PV power plant installations relative to nearby wildlands. More detailed measurements of the underlying causes of the PVHI effect, potential mitigation strategies, and the relative influence of PVHI in the context of the intrinsic carbon offsets from the use of this renewable energy are needed.
However, this effect is much lower when you compare a PV installation with a parking lot, so it makes sense to cover parking lots in PV panels, thur providing shade to cars and further lowering the need to use AC to cool down a car that spent hours in the scorching sun.
