Talk:Solar power by country

message: These two statements appear mutually contradictory.
"The world's largest solar power plant is located in the Mojave Desert. Solel[11], an Israeli company, operates the plant, which consists of 1000 acres (4 km²) of solar reflectors."
"The 10 megawatt Bavaria Solarpark in Germany is the world's largest solar electric system, covering 25 hectares (62 acres) with 57,600 photovoltaic panels. [4]"
Perhaps the author can resolve this.
Ordinary Person 09:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The second is a large photovoltaic plant. The first is a much much larger solar trough plant. Article sorted out. Rmhermen 17:32, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction

message: This article is not clear whether it talks about PV only, or Solar power as a whole. Jdpipe 00:34, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I took out "cheap" and some other stuff, but put "economic".  The conditions that make it economic can be discussed if you like, and if you have a good source, but obviously the solar power is economic for some reason, and not necessarily limited to the reasons you suggest.  Even in the US where energy is subsidized by the government supporting the energy companies, and where many of the costs of fossil fuel are externalized, there is a new capital business investing in solar capacity because the economics makes sense.
Am I missing something?  Isn't the title of the article Deployment of Solar Power to energy grids?  To me this means all types of solar power, not just pv. 199.125.109.104 06:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Feel free to add any other solar technology you know about that puts energy into the grid.  I know there's a big solar thermal plant in southern california; are there more? Dicklyon 07:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  PV or Solar Power? 

message: I moved the summary table over from PV.  It would be good to replace the off grid data by CSP data.
Also a global list of solar power stations should pulled from PV and the CSP and hybrid added in.--Oldboltonian 20:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary table 

message: Something doesn't add up in figure 1 and its caption:
"Growth rate of photovoltaic installations, as a percentage of total 2004 energy use. By 2007 less than 0.011% of energy came from photovoltaics - at a 40% annual increase this would reach almost 30% by 2030, or by 2015 at a 200% annual increase."
Starting from a total PV energy production of 15 TW*0.011%=1.76 GW, a 40% annual increase would give a total PV energy production after 20 years of 1.76 GW*1.4^20=1.47 TW. This is 1.47/15=9.8% of the total consumption (assuming consumption doesn't increase), not 30% as claimed by the caption/figure. Or am I missing something/doing the calculation wrong??
O. Prytz (talk) 05:39, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I'm removing the figure as I consider it erroneous. O. Prytz (talk) 16:15, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Error in figure 1 and caption?

message: I suggest we rename this article to Solar power by country since it's a very wordy and indirect title now.  There is a lot of overlap in solar power articles and this title could collect information now scattered in other places.  --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:47, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest move 

message: I see that there is no page for Mexico, and there is a pretty limited amount of details. The potential in Mexico is supposed to be significant. This also talks about potential there. I think it would be nice to expand here or even create a new page for it, so I plan on taking a look around and seeing what I can do. Spangled53 (talk) 01:22, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mexico 

message: By the end of 2014, cumulative photovoltaic capacity increased by more than 40 gigawatt (GW) and reached at least 178 GW, sufficient to supply 1 percent of the world's total electricity consumption of currently 18,400 TWh. 
Is this correct???  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.15.190.123 (talk) 03:44, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it is correct as the reference at the end of the paragraph shows. Baseload or capacity has nothing to do with that sentence, though. Rmhermen (talk) 03:55, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baseload vs Capacity??? 

message: Column data for 2017 are way off.
I've looked at the sources link and I can't find any of those figures. You can see by the link provided here (Global Solar Market Installed 98.9 Gigawatts In 2017) citing data from SolarPower Europe, the US installed 10GW not 2.5GW. India installed 9.6GW not 9.0. This column should be removed until a proper data source is cited with the correct data in place. I had trouble trying to revert the table.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by LostLucidity (talk • contribs) 00:17, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank for noticing. I replaced the table with an existing table that seems to be better referenced from Growth of photovoltaics with transclusion. From now on, we need to keep only one table up to date. --Ita140188 (talk) 04:04, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately the table described as Photovoltaic Solar (now in both articles) is a copy of the Irena statistics [ref 21] for total solar energy which includes both photovoltaic and concentrated solar power. The difference only affects a few countries but in those cases it's quite significant. e.g. Morocco is marked as 734 but only 204 is PV; USA is 75,572 but only 73,814 is PV; Spain is 14,089 but only 11,785 is PV. The Irena source gives all 3 tables. Chris55 (talk) 21:40, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for noticing. This should be corrected in the original table for the few countries affected. I have no time right now, but if anybody wants to do this please go ahead. --Ita140188 (talk) 10:02, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global deployment figures 

message: I plan to refurbish the main table to focus on the most recent year only. Having all those old years seems like data hoarding to me (WP:NOTDATABASE)).
The table would look like the version I recently updated Wind power by country with, or something similar. Please comment there or here with your thoughts. Wizmut (talk) 19:57, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main table