Alaska builds solar farm to mitigate climate warming

    Willow Solar Farm, about 50 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska, is the state's largest and newest solar farm. In northern regions like Alaska, where daylight hours  are short for most of the year, the use of solar energy also seems impossible. However, the Willow hybrid solar system price Farm proves that solar energy works even in the most unexpected cold and northerly climates. The pace of climate change in the Arctic and its surrounding areas is much greater than in the rest of the world, so there is an urgent need to reduce the use of fossil fuels and expand the options for renewable energy.

    Whether solar power can exist in an area depends on two things: solar energy resources and electricity prices. The price of electricity in Alaska is almost double the average price in the United States, which has caused great interest in alternative technologies. And, on average, Alaska is a sunny place. It is not necessarily sunlight that restricts the development of solar energy, but the time available for solar power generation in a year, because the peak output does not match the peak energy consumption. In general, Alaska uses less electricity in the summer, but has strong power generation capacity. In the winter heating season, electricity consumption peaks, but the power generation capacity is weak.

    Given the rate of warming in the Arctic, finding local clean energy solutions is particularly urgent. "Warming in the Arctic is often above the global average," said Chera Lagoff, a climate change expert at IUCN. "Solar energy helps reduce dependence on fossil fuels, either off-grid, on-grid or through hybrids. System installation."

    Falling solar-related costs are also an incentive. Overall, the cost of solar panels has been declining for the past 40 years. As the price of solar energy becomes cheaper and cheaper, the cost of future projects will continue to fall. Alaska's solar use is on the rise and it has become cheaper than fossil fuels such as coal.