Snow on the solar panels

Sneeuw op de panelen

Snow on the solar panels

When I looked up yesterday morning when I left home for work, I saw that our roof was still covered with snow while our neighbours’ roofs were clear.

I think that’s because the hatch I mounted in the stairwell to the attic, which prevents warm air from rising and being lost through the roof.

The disadvantage is that snow takes longer to melt and thus covers the solar panels for a longer period, but because the panels produce very little energy in this season that’s really no problem. The amount of energy saved in natural gas will almost certainly be more than the amount of energy the solar panels would have generated without the snow.

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