Baseball-sized hail took out a 5.2-megawatt solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, on Friday, as part of a giant supercell thunderhead that moved across eastern Wyoming and into Nebraska.
A cost study analysis probably showed that baseball sized hail didn’t happen regularly enough to warrant the extra cost compared to changing out some broken panels every X number of years.
Seems like a bit of an oversight to not spec the panels to be extremely hail proof when you’re in the Midwest supercell central.
A cost study analysis probably showed that baseball sized hail didn’t happen regularly enough to warrant the extra cost compared to changing out some broken panels every X number of years.
Cost studies aren’t always correct.