Got fossil fuels???

[sumdumguy]

1. That is probably not snow but ice. Black panels were warm when snow fell. To remove would damage panels.

2. Why not angled ? maybe because wind could get under them and kaput.

I dunno

[shtferbrains]

Not worth the time to change them or sweep them.

[Old Cowzilla]

Nothing more than sled jumps at that stage. Warming up here this morn only -30 with sun up already!

[shtferbrains]

Freezing on the south Texas coast.
They will have to buy some brooms.

[chuckChuck]

The snow and ice should melt off once temperatures recover. I brush mine off regularly. If they are leaving snow and ice on all winter that will reduce production a lot.

The angle is too low for winter compared to mine. That will also reduce wintertime production. Some arrays can easily adjust the angle seasonally

According to Dispatcho the Brooks solar site has made 46.26 Gwh of electricity since it was built.

Take a look at Dispatcho for yourself.

https://www.dispatcho.app/live/BSC1?r=76782840 https://www.dispatcho.app/live/BSC1?r=76782840

Yup solar still needs complete backup. But when the sun is shining what solar produces can be matched to load requirements which displaces grid supply. Wasn't there some irrigation farmers in Alberta who installed solar to offset some of their high electricity costs.

[Guest]

and unfortunately , the grid needs back up, as painfully demonstrated here last week

[shtferbrains]

The story I hear from over there is they brought in the big portable plant that you see sitting at Tisdale and something cracked in the cold?
Had to sit till the new transformer came in and fully installed?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

We obviously missed the other obvious explanation for the angle of the panels.
Their angle is optimized for the sun being almost straight overhead.
The Brooks solar farm was starting to be built in April, finished in December.
In April, the sun is getting higher in the sky every day, as it has been doing for 4 months already.
The person( or team) in charge of panel angles was obviously a member of the same Church of Al Gore that Chuck is.
In these people's world, there is no such thing as cycles, every trend continues forever in the same direction. You see this in their global warming temperature projections every day. Start measuring at the bottom of the current warming cycle, and project that trend forever into the future, completely ignoring the cyclical nature of climate, or any evidence to the contrary, adjust the data when it doesn't fit.
As they observed the sun getting higher in the sky everyday all spring, they made the logical conclusion that the sun would keep getting higher forever, therefore pointing the panels straight up would save the effort of constantly adjusting the angle in the future. They created a computer model designed to confirm this.
Then June 21 came and went, the sun started getting lower again, so they adusted the data instead of the panels.
According to their models, the sun is now straight overhead.
Anyone who pointed out pointed out that the sun might just follow a cycle was branded a denier and fired.
They also concluded that snow would be a thing of the past thanks to the sun getting higher every day, so they refuse to sweep it off, as that would be acknowledging the continued existence of snow.

[chuckChuck]

Maybe they hired out of work Alberta petroleum "engineers" to design the system who decided it wouldn't work anyway, so why pay attention to details?

One solar system in one location does not tell the whole story of solar does it? Not to mention that prices are coming down and efficiency is going up.

And just so you don't forget solar is supplementary and requires backup.

[farming101]

Dispatcho....not very accurate.

Brooks BSC1 has produced 64,800,500 Kwh till the end of 2020.

Considering that the most output will be in the summer the designers may have decided that since the angle will be fixed they might as well set them for optimum summer angle