Smoke From California Wildfires Dimmed Solar Energy in 2020

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By Cristen Hemingway JaynesDec 9, 2022, 7:47 pm176 pts
In September of 2020, the smoke from major wildfires in California made the skies so dark that the state’s solar power production was reduced by 10 to 30 percent during peak hours, according to a National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) study. For several days during the wildfires, solar energy…

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