Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on...
by 0cf8612b2e1e on Friday December 09, 2022 @07:19PM
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For a grid scale installation, let’s say 5% of panels are dead due to whatever failure. I am not sure the rational response would be to do any maintenance vs installing more capacity. Twenty years later rip out all of the old panels, replace with new. Repeat forever.
So what's the actual maintenance cost? I could imagine it's going to be cheaper to just install new panels every few decades than constantly maintaining the installation to be 100% capacity.