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In practice it's kWh you care about, and you get significantly fewer hours of sun in winter. No cloud days are rare in some regions in winter too.


Sure, but the time factor wasn't present in the above comment, it was just instantaneous power.


It was about how that could heat (or not heat) a cabin, time is definitely a factor in that.


"5kW of panels don't produce 5kW in winter" -> there is no 'time' factor in there.

What you could say is that solar panels in the winter do not produce the same amount of power in an average day as they do in the summer due to the shorter day and the bigger chance of occlusion as well as the longer path the suns rays have to travel through the atmosphere.




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