Try to contain your schadenfreude: a massive, multimillion dollar solar park in Nebraska has been smashed to bits by a single hailstorm.
Solar panels destroyed by large hail north of Scottsbluff, Nebraska last night. #newx Photo Courtesy Matt Larsen #hail pic.twitter.com/2ND7BHmYlB
— Daryl Orr (@WxWyDaryl) June 27, 2023
From the No Tricks Zone:
The Scottsbluff, Nebraska 5.2 MW Community Solar project was part of the [Nebraska Public Power District]’s Sunwise program that consisted of an array has over 14,000 solar panels. It’s reported that it had been put into operation in 2019.... Now it has been just recently reported that the multimillion dollar solar energy park was literally reduced to a heap of rubble as hail literally pummeled it to a pulp in just a matter of minutes.... The disaster underscores once again just how vulnerable to the forces of nature solar energy parks are. The system’s 25-year expected lifetime was cut to down to less than 4 years, and makes you wonder if setting up such weather-vulnerable plants make any sense at all.
Give another reliability point to traditional energy sources like oil, natural gas, coal, and even nuclear. Those tend not to be utterly destroyed by entirely predictable weather events.
Article tags: Energy, green energy, Nebraska, Oil and Gas, solar panels, wind and solar
As the classic ads for Chiffon Margarine ITS NOT NICE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE
The only solar/wind project that makes economic sense is a clothesline, and only if the government stays out of it.