Now that's the way to let the public know that you are a responsible company and that you are educating the students to make it mainstream kudos Sgt z USA engineer
One company came to offer services…the have a huge brush sorta like a carwash, attached to a tractor type machine that “floats” over the panels…they can clean them very quickly. My company just uses rain though.
To avoid one panel shading its neighbors as it tracks the sun position changes - particularly in the morning and evening. The only way all the area could be used would be to make the panels stationary and parallel to the surface, forming a big sheet. However, in this situation, all plant life would die under the panels, leading to soil erosion, and the panels would not be cleaned by rain, and a panel cleaning vehicle could not get access to them either..
Let's divide by 365 = 30.1MWh per day. Not all days the same so lets ambitiously assume 6hours of 100% sun (that's also the same as say 12 hours of 50% sun). To be technical these are double-glass panels that can receive electricity from both sides and achieve 120% of nameplate capacity. Anyway 30MW / 6 = 5MW (Megawatt) solar farm. If a house average 2kW. So can run 2500 houses. But note this is a very small solar farm it seems. Also 5MW made from approx 500watt panels = 10000 panels. Panel prices have crashed in the last year. Buying on this scale they'll be likely paying $100 per panel. So it's about $1m of solar panels. And probably about the same on racking. Maybe $500k on inverters. Note in China and the Middle East there's a few solar farms measuring 10 square miles that are 2GW in power = to a typical nuclear power station. Ones having 2 million or more panels!
Hi what would this Acre cost to rent and buy? This is a plan for future life residents to work and stay in their Community. Don't lose it to holiday letting
Well think about it. It doesn’t matter who is making the power someone is going to need paid. Than the infrastructure doesn’t get more reliable or maintenance intensive. Add in the inefficient practices of a utility. At what point does anyone in that chain feel the need to lower prices.
You think businesses are going to financially do what’s best for the consumer just because they’ve become able to do what’s best for the consumer?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 bud you need to figure out real fast how the real world works, you aren’t even close yet
@@scooterss2112 capital development costs for new infrastructure won’t be recouped for many many years if not decades. The goal in private utilities isn’t to pass on savings consumers it’s about reaping the federally subsidized green energy dollars. Solar farms are developed to produce electricity at scale. The amount of infrastructure required from source to your home makes it economically unlikely you would see a bill decrease. To do that you would benefit most from solar on your home directly.
@@cameronwhite2918 it's 11,000MWh (hour) per year / 365 days and maybe 6 hours of sun a day and you get a 5MW plant. Divide by a typical American house averaging 2kW and you have the power for 2500 houses.
36 acres to power 11,000 homes. Inefficent use of land. We need CO2 for plants to grow and every living thing to survive. Put a natural gas or methane powered mini power station on just ten acres and power 100,000 homes! Use the other 26acres for livestock, housing or whatever! I have worked in the renewable industry (wind energy) and doen solar panels on roofs. I have recently been asked to work on solar panels on land and having been involved in farming, I can see no benefit of panels on land. I have some questions listed below. 1, How are and who cleans the panels to ensure they as efficient as possible being in mind they loose efficiency over time? 2, What happens to the panels after 25yrs since they cannot be recycled? 3, After 25yr and the solar array is removed, what is put in place to restore power to those 11,000 homes?
1: they just pay someone to occasionally maintain them. the panels are also prob insured for stuff like hail damage 2: i believe they can be recycled. also, after 25 years, they have already made plenty of profit. also, the panels dont just explode on year 25. they're just less efficient. 3:New panels when needed to be replaced. There is a balance of everything in this world. too little CO2 and we're all dead However, the same is true for too much CO2, hence global warming I'm not saying natural gas needs to be suddenly cut off forever, but we need to be very mindful of our emissions. With the significantly increasing cheapness of solar, this is our best bet.
Ya... the basics they dont want to talk about. So in Palm Springs, San Gorgonia Pass... one of the wind farms have large troughs of water between the rows of turbines... do you know why... is it in hopes of not zapping all the moisture etc., out of the soi? Thanks and great questions you point out !
I simply can't see how after 25 years of cleaning chemicals, probable seal deterioration and leakage, the EMF radiation, the heavily compacting machines used in the set up, the concreted sections of field, the removal of ALL the materials used in the construction (what a task), the field will not be written off as 'returnable to farming'. It seems to me in essence to be an underhanded, long term ruse to create brown sites out of farmland to then build new industrial sites or residential properties. Here in the UK, we cannot afford to lose any more farmland, nor have more badly made housing! I suppose I'm hoping someone with insight to both solar panels and farming could settle my worries lol. But that is a lot to ask of a stranger 🤦🏻♀️
@@JuliaHartley EMF radiation? What kind of facebook conspiracy echo chamber rabbit hole did you get flushed down lol. Agrovoltaics has existed for years and isn't going away anytime soon. Lets see what gives off EMF radiation from a quick search. The sun You (literally) Your phone The radio tower Your internet Your microwave Your flashlight The crops Oh, and the earth itself.
it's 11,000MWh (hour) per year / 365 days and maybe 6 hours of sun a day and you get a 5MW plant. Divide by a typical American house averaging 2kW and you have the power for 2500 houses.
The company who installs the farm typically has a decommissioning plan with the county to decommission and remove or repower (new panels/equipment) after a set period (typically about 30 years). Part of that plan is a bond that is placed with the county so if something were to happen to the company then the county would be able to draw down the bond to have the plant decommissioned and restored.
The company does when the lease is up. They either re-power it or they have to take it all out and recycle it. Solar very rarely actually buys land outright and even if so state sanctions make it so they have to take care of it when they’re done with it. So check your States energy commission policy!
@@danadam008 good to know. I hope that’s how it’s handled. Seeing abandoned junk from other industries is so common. Glad they have a plan in place. I hope it works.
On a really cloudy day those panels only produce 1% of their rated output on a moderate cloudy day they produce 10% of their rated capacity. That land will be unusable after the solar is removed. Also those panels only tilt east and west but don't adjust for winter and summer so they're really only good for about 6 months if that.
yes, they produce less during cloudy days, but you're exaggerating it a bit. estimates are done before systems are installed. Companies do their due dilligence. Do you really think they'd just plop these down without profiting? The land is fine. It's not going to explode when solar panels are raised above it, and agrovoltaics exist if thats a big concern.
Enough power for 12,000 homes. That's a total lie. Solar power is unpredictable so its impossible to supply 12,000 homes or any on-demand load. It can only substitute for other generation sources when available and can't add any supply capacity. Its value is for charging storage or something similar. If forced onto the public power gird that wild AC it is largely worthless with its dips in output are having to made up by standing-at-the-ready fossil fuel generators It is worse than worthless when the public power grid is having to buy nearly worthless wild AC at many time the cost of generating grid quality electricity internally. Those costs are paid for by other electric customers. This is why southern California has the highest priced electricity in the USA and bankrupt power grids unable to up grade their transmission lines.
That is not how it works. You want solar farms to be build in inhabited areas, so trees don’t create shades. In fact developers pay to company’s to go out and spray seed mixes to have weed grow. These farms actually create habitats. In addition, farmers can have livestock on these solar farm to eat the grass and manage the vegetation
Now that's the way to let the public know that you are a responsible company and that you are educating the students to make it mainstream kudos Sgt z USA engineer
Agrivoltaic+tracking system+battery storage 👍👍 nice
Very informative, sir Jack Black!
Voice sounds like Peter griffins wife I love it 😂
Interesting Cable system
Thanks for this video! Showing the BESS is extra cool!
Does anyone know the type/model of inverter being used?
great video thank you for sharing!
You got to get a Chandeliers !
Really cool!
what if you used Ground Mounted in Concrete? how much concrete will be needed?
Too much. Piles are easier, faster, and recyclable.
0:24 Very clean energy from those machines.
Good job
Great job
Amazing stuff
Can you use that land to build a small nuclear reactor
How do you clean the solar panels ?
Rain
An O&M company is usually contracted to take care of these panels
One company came to offer services…the have a huge brush sorta like a carwash, attached to a tractor type machine that “floats” over the panels…they can clean them very quickly. My company just uses rain though.
What's the installation capacity?
It’s all up to availability of space and cost
Hi, is it okay to use your film for education purposes?
what's the best distance of solar panel from each other?
About three times the panel length.
nice
how can i have a training under your company
why is only 1/3 of the land covered in panels? Why not use all of the available area?
To avoid making shadow
@@heshamabas6523 ya, but why not?
Cost
@@HesHim2025 what? profit is greater with more land covered
To avoid one panel shading its neighbors as it tracks the sun position changes - particularly in the morning and evening. The only way all the area could be used would be to make the panels stationary and parallel to the surface, forming a big sheet. However, in this situation, all plant life would die under the panels, leading to soil erosion, and the panels would not be cleaned by rain, and a panel cleaning vehicle could not get access to them either..
13,000 volts ?
What dose 11,000 megawatts Hours mean? What is the real average hourly output?
Incorrect on their end, 11,000MW is equal to 1.1e+9 lol. 1MW=1000000watts
@@cameronwhite2918 NO! They said 11,000 MWh not 11,000MW!
Let's divide by 365 = 30.1MWh per day. Not all days the same so lets ambitiously assume 6hours of 100% sun (that's also the same as say 12 hours of 50% sun). To be technical these are double-glass panels that can receive electricity from both sides and achieve 120% of nameplate capacity. Anyway 30MW / 6 = 5MW (Megawatt) solar farm. If a house average 2kW. So can run 2500 houses. But note this is a very small solar farm it seems. Also 5MW made from approx 500watt panels = 10000 panels. Panel prices have crashed in the last year. Buying on this scale they'll be likely paying $100 per panel. So it's about $1m of solar panels. And probably about the same on racking. Maybe $500k on inverters.
Note in China and the Middle East there's a few solar farms measuring 10 square miles that are 2GW in power = to a typical nuclear power station. Ones having 2 million or more panels!
thanks for this short video. i got an oveview of how a solar farm is constructed for my systems engineering report.
Emmerich Plains
Hi what would this Acre cost to rent and buy? This is a plan for future life residents to work and stay in their Community. Don't lose it to holiday letting
I have NEVER seen an electric bill decrease.
Well think about it. It doesn’t matter who is making the power someone is going to need paid. Than the infrastructure doesn’t get more reliable or maintenance intensive. Add in the inefficient practices of a utility. At what point does anyone in that chain feel the need to lower prices.
You think businesses are going to financially do what’s best for the consumer just because they’ve become able to do what’s best for the consumer?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 bud you need to figure out real fast how the real world works, you aren’t even close yet
@@scooterss2112 capital development costs for new infrastructure won’t be recouped for many many years if not decades. The goal in private utilities isn’t to pass on savings consumers it’s about reaping the federally subsidized green energy dollars.
Solar farms are developed to produce electricity at scale. The amount of infrastructure required from source to your home makes it economically unlikely you would see a bill decrease. To do that you would benefit most from solar on your home directly.
This install is super inefficient. Could be sped up by probably 50%.
is it 11k MW or 11MW?? i thing u have given a wrong information. it 11MW rite?? is 11K MW to supply to 1.2k home is inefficient
Yea there’s no way 11,000MW. 1MW=1000000W
@@cameronwhite2918 it's 11,000MWh (hour) per year / 365 days and maybe 6 hours of sun a day and you get a 5MW plant. Divide by a typical American house averaging 2kW and you have the power for 2500 houses.
So let's say I have 20 acres of land I can use 8 to build my power plant and 10 for apartment building
is this the vast swaths of horrific environmental annihilation that the nuclear simps assure me comes from solar?
lol no
In europe you go to prison if you do cable menagment like this.
How is it done in Europe?
What is that even mean
36 acres to power 11,000 homes. Inefficent use of land. We need CO2 for plants to grow and every living thing to survive. Put a natural gas or methane powered mini power station on just ten acres and power 100,000 homes! Use the other 26acres for livestock, housing or whatever!
I have worked in the renewable industry (wind energy) and doen solar panels on roofs. I have recently been asked to work on solar panels on land and having been involved in farming, I can see no benefit of panels on land. I have some questions listed below.
1, How are and who cleans the panels to ensure they as efficient as possible being in mind they loose efficiency over time?
2, What happens to the panels after 25yrs since they cannot be recycled?
3, After 25yr and the solar array is removed, what is put in place to restore power to those 11,000 homes?
1: they just pay someone to occasionally maintain them. the panels are also prob insured for stuff like hail damage
2: i believe they can be recycled. also, after 25 years, they have already made plenty of profit.
also, the panels dont just explode on year 25. they're just less efficient.
3:New panels when needed to be replaced.
There is a balance of everything in this world. too little CO2 and we're all dead
However, the same is true for too much CO2, hence global warming
I'm not saying natural gas needs to be suddenly cut off forever, but we need to be very mindful of our emissions.
With the significantly increasing cheapness of solar, this is our best bet.
Ya... the basics they dont want to talk about.
So in Palm Springs, San Gorgonia Pass... one of the wind farms have large troughs of water between the rows of turbines... do you know why... is it in hopes of not zapping all the moisture etc., out of the soi?
Thanks and great questions you point out !
Typically efficiency only drops to 87% after 25 to 30 years, which is still quite efficient
I simply can't see how after 25 years of cleaning chemicals, probable seal deterioration and leakage, the EMF radiation, the heavily compacting machines used in the set up, the concreted sections of field, the removal of ALL the materials used in the construction (what a task), the field will not be written off as 'returnable to farming'. It seems to me in essence to be an underhanded, long term ruse to create brown sites out of farmland to then build new industrial sites or residential properties. Here in the UK, we cannot afford to lose any more farmland, nor have more badly made housing! I suppose I'm hoping someone with insight to both solar panels and farming could settle my worries lol. But that is a lot to ask of a stranger 🤦🏻♀️
@@JuliaHartley EMF radiation?
What kind of facebook conspiracy echo chamber rabbit hole did you get flushed down lol. Agrovoltaics has existed for years and isn't going away anytime soon.
Lets see what gives off EMF radiation from a quick search.
The sun
You (literally)
Your phone
The radio tower
Your internet
Your microwave
Your flashlight
The crops
Oh, and the earth itself.
That can provide for way more than twelve hundred homes 🤣
it's 11,000MWh (hour) per year / 365 days and maybe 6 hours of sun a day and you get a 5MW plant. Divide by a typical American house averaging 2kW and you have the power for 2500 houses.
@@markyates5744 2500>1200, thank you for the math! My point stands correct!
Who pays to return the property back to its natural state. Our country is littered with abandoned mills and plants. How will solar farms be different?
The company who installs the farm typically has a decommissioning plan with the county to decommission and remove or repower (new panels/equipment) after a set period (typically about 30 years). Part of that plan is a bond that is placed with the county so if something were to happen to the company then the county would be able to draw down the bond to have the plant decommissioned and restored.
The company does when the lease is up. They either re-power it or they have to take it all out and recycle it. Solar very rarely actually buys land outright and even if so state sanctions make it so they have to take care of it when they’re done with it. So check your States energy commission policy!
@@danadam008 good to know. I hope that’s how it’s handled. Seeing abandoned junk from other industries is so common. Glad they have a plan in place. I hope it works.
Yes exactly correct and they also have sheep to graze the ground to help maintain the land.
Pretty sure if you watch the whole video lol it tells you
I worked on one of these…the environmentalist told me the heavy metals from those piles will never leave the ground. 😪
So it’s merely a billion times better than a coal mine? Dang
The piles are aluminum, so a strong thin layer of protective aluminum oxide forms on its surface, making it harmless.
On a really cloudy day those panels only produce 1% of their rated output on a moderate cloudy day they produce 10% of their rated capacity. That land will be unusable after the solar is removed. Also those panels only tilt east and west but don't adjust for winter and summer so they're really only good for about 6 months if that.
Did you even watch the video?
1%! So much confidence with false information 😂
I'm around solar panels almost everyday.
so am I, would you like a recording showing the actual proof?@@techtactics788
yes, they produce less during cloudy days, but you're exaggerating it a bit. estimates are done before systems are installed. Companies do their due dilligence. Do you really think they'd just plop these down without profiting?
The land is fine. It's not going to explode when solar panels are raised above it, and agrovoltaics exist if thats a big concern.
Lmao the comments are killing me 😂😂😂😂
Enough power for 12,000 homes. That's a total lie. Solar power is unpredictable so its impossible to supply 12,000 homes or any on-demand load. It can only substitute for other generation sources when available and can't add any supply capacity. Its value is for charging storage or something similar. If forced onto the public power gird that wild AC it is largely worthless with its dips in output are having to made up by standing-at-the-ready fossil fuel generators
It is worse than worthless when the public power grid is having to buy nearly worthless wild AC at many time the cost of generating grid quality electricity internally. Those costs are paid for by other electric customers. This is why southern California has the highest priced electricity in the USA and bankrupt power grids unable to up grade their transmission lines.
how to destroy farm land and our food supply to make a few ricjh
That is not how it works. You want solar farms to be build in inhabited areas, so trees don’t create shades. In fact developers pay to company’s to go out and spray seed mixes to have weed grow. These farms actually create habitats. In addition, farmers can have livestock on these solar farm to eat the grass and manage the vegetation