Solar street light power calculator for Weipa City

Our calculator uses hourly typical meteorological year (TMY) data from NREL.

Data from TMY is for a 1 year period. The collection of this data is over many years.

About this calculator

This calculator is for solar street lights using a lithium battery. It is important to keep the charge of the battery high to extend the life of the battery.

Location: Weipa City, Qld (using solar data from Weipa Aero, Qld, Australia)
Lithium LiFePO4 battery
Solar panel tilted 20° and facing North

Other locations closest to Weipa City

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Solar light specications

10w LED output
80w solar panel
386wh lithium battery

This calculator shows the performance of

Other lights can be modeled as the calculator accepts different parameters.

Performance

On average this system has 68.88% battery remaining at dawn.
56.14% is the minimum battery charge at dawn (15 February)
Weipa City has a lot of sunny days and the solar data is fairly consistent throughout the year.

Weather predictions

Past weather performance is not an indicator of future weather paterns.
Yet, this is real historic weather data and, it is a good starting point.

This calcualtor is editable.

██ coloured cells are editable