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The summer workhorse — and an honest reckoning with mountain shading, winter sun angles, and snow.
Solar is the summer workhorse and the natural partner to micro-hydro: when the creek runs lower in late summer, the sun is at its strongest, and vice versa. Panels are cheap, modular, silent, and need no licence — you can add capacity a cell at a time.
We won't oversell it. A Kootenay valley has real solar challenges: mountain shading shortens the usable day, the winter sun sits low and weak exactly when demand for light and heat is highest, and snow covers panels. December here is a hard month for solar — which is precisely why solar alone can't run this place and why the stacked approach matters.
This is where it ties back to the land tool: a panel's output depends on its aspect (which way the slope faces) and tilt. GeoSeal records the aspect of every cell. That means we can site solar on genuinely south-facing ground — rooftops, pole mounts, or a small shared array on a sunny bench in the commons — rather than fighting a north slope. Design with the terrain, not against it.
Two models to weigh: panels on each home (independence, no shared wiring) versus a shared array on the best-aspect ground feeding the micro-grid (better siting, shared batteries, easier maintenance). Likely both — and that's a governance call as much as an engineering one.
Model your cell's solar potential from its aspect, pledge panel capacity, and join the energy guild that sizes the commons array and battery bank.
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