{"schemaVersion":"report-figure-v1","report":{"slug":"solar-wind-cooling","title":"Wind: The Free Coolant That Refunds Part of the Heat Penalty","url":"https://solaranalytica.com/solar-wind-cooling","datePublished":"2026-05-28","lastReviewed":"2026-09-17"},"figure":{"id":"wind-clawback","title":"What the wind is worth. Output recovered vs a still-air baseline, against mean wind speed","unit":"% recovered; m/s","valueLabel":"Output recovered vs still (%)","valueBLabel":"Wind at 10 m (m/s)","caption":"Wind translated into output: each market's modelled yield recovered against a dead-still baseline, set against its mean 10 m wind speed. The recovery is the Faiman module model (800 W/m², PERC coefficient) run with and without that wind, so the rising curve is the model's own; what the figure adds is the scatter around it, which is air temperature. Every market gains, and the windiest recover nearly twice the calmest.","series":[{"label":"Cape Town","value":6.9,"valueB":6.32},{"label":"Perth","value":6.87,"valueB":6.29},{"label":"New York","value":6.46,"valueB":5.31},{"label":"Reykjavik","value":6.43,"valueB":5.25},{"label":"London","value":6.29,"valueB":5.01},{"label":"Berlin","value":6.02,"valueB":4.51},{"label":"Cairo","value":5.71,"valueB":4.04},{"label":"Riyadh","value":5.61,"valueB":3.91},{"label":"Jodhpur","value":5.37,"valueB":3.56},{"label":"Jakarta","value":5,"valueB":3.11},{"label":"Los Angeles","value":4.76,"valueB":2.83},{"label":"Bogota","value":3.6,"valueB":1.81}]},"csv":"https://solaranalytica.com/reports/solar-wind-cooling/figures/wind-clawback/data.csv","publicationState":"fixed-edition","boundary":"The figure remains bound to the report edition. A newer upstream release creates a review obligation and never rewrites these rows automatically."}