How Many Solar Panels Per Acre

Calculate the energy per acre.

How many solar panels per acre.

This can make it tricky to get a rough estimate of how much it will cost to build per acre of solar panels. When we use thin film technology a 1mw plant will require an average of 4 5 to 5 acres of land. By comparison imagine solar power. That depends on the amount of kw of mw you would like to accommodate.

On average 1 square meter of solar panels directly exposed to sunlight will receive about 1 kilowatt hour kw h of energy per hour for the six hours it is exposed to effective sunlight or 6 kilowatt hours of solar energy a day. A good rule of thumb is that on average a one acre field of solar panels will cost from 400 000 to 500 000 before government incentives. In other terms we can say that for each 1 kw of solar panels you need 100 sqft of an area on average. This means that for a 1mw solar pv power plant the area required is about 2 5 acres or 100 000 square feet.

However this is a rough estimate as space can also be influenced by the efficiency of the panels and technology. Extrapolating this a 1 mw solar pv power plant should require about 100000 sqft about 2 5 acres or 1 hectare.