Wind and Solar Farms Tackle the Variables of The Weather

solar panels for homesGrand Ridge, Illinois, population 550, is a small village in the Corn Belt flatlands stretching south and west of Chicago. The in Grand Ridge swings just outside the American average. Winters are windy and mostly overcast, while the summer months tend to be calmer and sunnier.

Sunny side up: High-efficiency thin film panels were developed at GE’s Global Research Center.

All this makes Grand Ridge the perfect place for a new project that aligns wind and farms to generate a more reliable source of renewable power. The idea is that when the long nights set in and the breeze kicks up, will replace idled capacity. The reverse will occur during long and radiant summer days. “We’ve built 30 gigawatts of wind farms so adding solar is a good utilization of assets,” Vic Abate, vice president of GE’s Renewable business told Forbes last week.

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