Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
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Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
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Re: Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
#2I thought those solar panels are designed to survive hail stone storms.
Re: Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
#3Everywhere I have read has said solar panels are specifically designed to handle this. Maybe these were scammer panels?
Re: Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
#4Largely a non-story, and anti-solar propaganda. It is a consideration when designing solar panels and fields, but a minor one. Simply an insurance question: insure all the panels, if a storm happens, replace the destroyed panels. With the massively falling cost of solar panels, the cost to replace will soon be trivial, making this even less of a concern.
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Re: Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
#6Largely a non-story, and anti-solar propaganda. It is a consideration when designing solar panels and fields, but a minor one. Simply an insurance question: insure all the panels, if a storm happens, replace the destroyed panels. With the massively falling cost of solar panels, the cost to replace will soon be trivial, making this even less of a concern.
If I have to choose between an earthquake crippling a nuclear power plant, and hail storms damaging solar panels, I know which disaster I’d prefer.
Re: Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
#7I thought those solar panels are designed to survive hail stone storms.
You never design things to be indestructible. You design for a 100 year storm or something like that, or a 500 year earthquake when designing buildings. Eventually, something will happen that destroys it, but that's an acceptable risk to take. Cars aren't designed to withstand all crashes, just a certain fraction.
Re: Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
#8I thought those solar panels are designed to survive hail stone storms.
> Hail is becoming a prominent issue for the PV industry as more sites are being built in the central U.S. — a hail-prone region — and modules are moving towards larger formats with thinner glass.
Re: Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
#9Golf-ball sized hailstones are unusual and likely outside the design space.
Crazy that people were concerned about "chemicals leaking" -- do they think the panels are full of goo?
Re: Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
#10Largely a non-story, and anti-solar propaganda. It is a consideration when designing solar panels and fields, but a minor one. Simply an insurance question: insure all the panels, if a storm happens, replace the destroyed panels. With the massively falling cost of solar panels, the cost to replace will soon be trivial, making this even less of a concern.
I mean the linked tweet does seem to be from some anti-renewables idiot.