{"id":271845,"date":"2023-08-06T19:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271845"},"modified":"2023-08-06T19:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:18:47","slug":"high-winds-hailstones-destroy-solar-panels-hot-weather-destroys-their-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271845","title":{"rendered":"High Winds & Hailstones Destroy Solar Panels\/Hot Weather Destroys Their\u00a0Output"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Solar panels are not the most robust of power generation sources. A blanket of snow and ice readily kills their occasional, sunshine-dependent output. They tend not to appreciate gale-force winds (see above) and hailstones of any substance are usually fatal (see below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks ago, STT reported on a\u00a0burst of hot weather in the UK<\/a>\u00a0which rendered millions of solar panels practically useless, simply because their output falls as temperatures rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierre Gosselin revisits that aspect of solar\u2019s inherent unreliability and then turns to another, where hailstones wiped out thousands of solar panels in Nebraska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coal To The Rescue In Britain As Solar Panels Also Work Too Poorly In The Summertime<\/strong>
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
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Summer temperatures in the UK have boosted the demand for electricity, and so the country has \u201cstarted burning coal again for electricity generation for the first time in a month and a half,\u201d reports Blackout News here, citing the Telegraph, June 13, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently in the summery weather, Britain\u2019s solar panels have refused to cooperate. In the heat, their efficiency dropped considerably and so the country\u2019s electricity demand could not be met without coal power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coal to the rescue
<\/strong>\u201cOn Monday 12 June, a unit at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire, owned by German energy company Uniper, went back online in the UK after a weeks-long break. Another coal-fired power station was kept on standby in case additional power demand arose in the early afternoon,\u201d according to Blackout News. \u201cThe yield of solar energy the previous weekend was almost a third less than the weekend before. This was due to the high temperatures, which exceeded 30 degrees Celsius in many parts of the country,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Solar\u2019s many technical drawbacks
<\/strong>This represents yet another technical drawback solar energy faces. It not only works extremely poorly in the wintertime, when energy is really in high demand, but also in the summer when temperatures climbed in the range of 30\u00b0C. The only time solar panels seem to work is when they are not really needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work only when you don\u2019t need them
<\/strong>Solar panels are designed to work best when their surface temperature is 25\u2033C. But in the summertime, their surfaces can easily reach 60 or even 70\u00b0C. According to the rule, every degree temperature over 25\u00b0C means a 0.5% loss in efficiency. That means at 65\u2033C, the panel loses 20% of its rated efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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25% less output
<\/strong>\u201cAlastair Buckley, Professor of Organic Electronics at the University of Sheffield, explained that the higher temperatures have contributed to much of the decline in solar energy production. Compared to a cool, cloudy day, solar panels could be more than 25 per cent less efficient,\u201d writes Blackout News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Germany, where nuclear power has been phased out, the country is coping with its energy troubles in its own brilliant way: importing nuclear power from France!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So well green energies are working here in Europe!
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Huge Nebraska Solar Park Completely Smashed To Pieces By One Single Hail Storm!<\/strong>
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
28 June 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scottsbluff, Nebraska 5.2 MW Community Solar project was part of the NPPD\u2019s Sunwise program that consisted of an array has over 14,000 solar panels. It\u2019s reported that it had been put into operation in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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