Re:After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit
by dmix on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:25PM
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Interesting, they seemed to be attempting to solve the cleaning problem via automation from an Israeli company:
> In December 2016, Solairedirect signed an agreement with Ecoppia, a PV panel cleaning solutions developer, to provide automated cleaning solutions to the project. Due to the park's location in a desert region, it is prone to dust storms
Hopefully the project eventually does reach the 2000MW scale it plans. It's not clear from the Wiki how far along it is or whether it's currently operational. It mentions opening targets for Dec 2018.
Softbank is involved for 500MW which is one red flag :p
> In December 2016, Solairedirect signed an agreement with Ecoppia, a PV panel cleaning solutions developer, to provide automated cleaning solutions to the project. Due to the park's location in a desert region, it is prone to dust storms
https://www.pv-tech.org/news/ecoppia-to-provide-cleaning-sol...
Hopefully the project eventually does reach the 2000MW scale it plans. It's not clear from the Wiki how far along it is or whether it's currently operational. It mentions opening targets for Dec 2018.
Softbank is involved for 500MW which is one red flag :p