Re: Any Energy Gained From Solar Panels Toward Water

[Nick Rosen]

If you are talking about facing half of your panels up, and half down, then you would be loosing a LOT of your potential and would want all of them facing the sun directly.

If you are talking about a single panel’s ability to create electricity from light that strikes from below, I wasn’t aware that they performed that way, but I really don’t know . . . but I can say that once you face your panels toward the sun for maximum efficiency, there will be very little sunlight reflecting off the lake and hitting them.

If panels produce power from light striking both above and below then you would see some gain from having panels suspended over water, but very little.