Looks like some panels may have survived.
Looks like some panels may have survived.
Should be declared a Superfund Hazardous Waste site - the ground beneath can no longer support vegetation from the chemicals spilled - land is forever polluted.
Democrat waste!
That’ll buff Out!
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Greenies are dangerous.
That’s got to be Photoshop Disinformation. EVERYBODY knows this is our energy future and anything “green” is indestructible, low-cost, non-toxic, and reliable.
That won’t buff out.
Just eye-balling the photo I'd say 10% survived. A 90% reduction in throughput is a major deal, especially if the grid depends on it (I hate, hate, hate grid power being dependent on solar and wind).
Even so, the 10% of panels that are still good need to be re-arranged so that they're all on the same inverter strings (assuming they used string inverters since those tend to be the most efficient). I have 8 strings for my 64 solar panels. If one panel goes bad the entire string would go down (much like a bad light in a string of Christmas lights) but the other 7 strings would produce just fine. Assuming in this photo they had one inverter string per row of panels, then right now none of the inverter strings are producing power (every row has at least one "blown" panel).
As far as cost of loss goes, I wonder if there's insurance. I added $40/year to my homeowner's insurance to cover the cost of replacing solar panels (and other added costs, since with rising construction costs even if I hadn't added solar and other energy improvements it would cost me more to rebuild my home today than it would have 17 years ago when we first started the homeowner's insurance policy). IMHO, $40/year is a reasonable expense to offset this kind of problem from a cost/benefit analysis. (Obviously their insurance premium would be more, but for more production.)
Even if they have enough insurance that this loss is a drop in the bucket financially, I hate, hate, hate solar power for the grid because the grid is supposed to be dependable power. The only solar worth considering is decentralized solar (personal use) and even then it should be a free market thing and not some government induced push to support some warmageddon fear religion.
Will finish those off in round #2
China sending replacements Xi much happy.
So is Biden
American companies not so much
Watching ebay closely...
There’s a giant array of those things right next to 1-95 up by Fort Pierce, FL. Surprised it hasn’t been whacked by hail yet. It storms every day up there this time of year.
Nobody thought to put in one of those systems like they got at the ballpark to automatically drag a tarp over them if a storm hits?
What would that have cost, a couple thousand bucks?