Re:Solar farm has to switch off every second day due to nega...
by seized on Thursday November 07, 2019 @02:47AM
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Likely if they need to most of them can turn the panels away from maximum sunlight and that would take care of the turning off/full light no load problems. Same with the molten salt tower systems, just just the aim on the mirrors.
If your solar panels are on an open circuit with no way to generate electric power, I guess the amount of heat produced in the panels would be roughly equivalent to the heat produced by other dark objects -- which may or may not be too hot. If you keep turning the sunlight into power to route some of that energy into the ground, that may be a lot if you're doing that in a single spot, but I don't think it would be impossible to come up with a workable grounding system.
That said, I'd be very interested to hear how a large solar farm like this turns off their panels.