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Re:A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by ... by eldaisfish on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:50AM (#31248287)
be careful claiming that solar PV systems last decades. Many recent builds have components that fail including the panels, junction boxes, the panel-to-panel connectors and the inverters themselves.

Solar isn't as reliable as the solar industry would have you believe. Worst part, a single component failure often takes large sections of the system offline. With domestic systems, that's the entire system.

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Re:A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by ... by powcontech on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:29PM (#31253834)
I’ve heard of issues with contactors failing in cold temperatures and dust or dirt (it is the desert, sand gets everywhere) causing fibre connections to stop working, ruin fans, cause overheating, outages, millions of dollars lost.
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