They say that this is “one of the nation’s biggest solar facilities of its kind” and will supply electricity to “about 120,000 homes”.
Hmmmmmm. 36 million people in California. Figure 4 people per “home”. means about 9 million “homes”. 120k homes powered for each of these type projects means that they will need 25 more like this to supply “a third of the state’s electricity”.
And they are having trouble getting permits & greenie approval for just this one?
Ain’t gonna happen!
Especially after the friends of the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard start up their lawsuits.
120k homes when the panels are clean, and the sun in shining. Not at night (obviously), and less after the dust from the dead areas under the panels which receive no light or water settles on them. I just can’t see the economic sense of these projects. You want low carbon emissions electricity? Build nuke plants.
One of the few uses I’ve seen where photo-voltaic cells look like they might make sense is on top of buildings, where the electricity will be used to help run the air conditioning at peak times (like when the sun is bearing down full strength, and the roofs are essentially wasted space anyway. Particularly large flat building with large air conditioning demands, like grocery stores for example.