4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm
4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm
Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.
I feel like this is one of those things that definitely has to have happened before now; after all, grid-scale solar isn't something we've just started doing in the last two or three years, we've been at it for at least 15 that I know of. And hail isn't exactly a new phenomenon in TX. So I wonder why we're hearing about it like it's news. Is this fossil fuel funded bad press? Did they skimp on protection they shouldn't have?
Placing hardware cloth or similar over the panels with a couple inches of stand-off should prevent most any damage from even lege hail. It will probably reduce sunlight by a few percent across the entire field, but considering the storms Texas gets it would likely be worth it in the long run instead of having most of an entire farm wrecked.
But then Texas isn’t big on protecting their power sources from environmental impacts, are they.
Don’t tread on my private infrastructure!!
sucks to be the insurance in this case
Technology is fragile.
I wondered if this was the one from years ago, or new.