What happens to solar panels when it snows?
A snowy day in the life of solar panels.
What happens to solar panels during a snow storm? Colorado has 300 days of sunshine — right, does that mean there’s only 300 days of power produced by the solar panels?
No!
Find out why there’s actually 364/365 days where your solar system will create power — even during the winter — even in a place like Colorado!
A common question I get asked about solar panels is “What happens when it snows?” So, I recorded the results of my solar production on this snowy day!
(See the complementary video to this article on YouTube here.)
It was early February near Denver, CO and it had started to snow. The day before, the high was in the 50s, and it was a ‘perfect solar day’, so the my panels were clear before the snow started to fall.
As you can see in the photo above, the panels are covered with snow. This is the reading from the monitoring system at the exact same moment.
You can see my array and each number on each blue box is the amount of electricity each solar panel has produced up to that…