Got fossil fuels???

[Ache4Acres]

Hmmm Brooks Alberta solar farm today not making much juice covered in snow. No fresh snow in sight but these babies all 75% covered

[Ache4Acres]

Here is the picture as we drive past

[jazz]

I thought there were so many green jobs for sweeping off solar panels?

There is more snow on the panels than on the ground.

[oneoff]

I thought there were so many green jobs for sweeping off solar panels?

There is more snow on the panels than on the ground.

Now lets stay serious boys... That's primarily where all our power comes from in less than 9 years

[biglentil]

Sun is pretty low on the horizon for the angle of those panels. An engineering fail, when considering a steeper angle would mitigate snow cover and increase winter performance.

[biglentil]

May not want to knock having your own electricity source:

"As one Houston energy trader so eloquently explained,*Texas electricity customers are about to get "lubelessly pounded" as prices explode:

Scary as shit surge...

Sunday day ahead cleared 4765 for the peak and 2297 for the offpeak. HANDS DOWN BY FAR HIGHEST CLEAR ON RECORD.

And yep, all those folks on griddy were paying 9$ per KWh earlier today and continue to get lubelessly pounded"

That's approximately 90 times what we pay to saskpower.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/energy-emergency-texas-power-provider-warns-rotating-outages-cold-weather-tests-limits-grid https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/energy-emergency-texas-power-provider-warns-rotating-outages-cold-weather-tests-limits-grid

[shtferbrains]

Here is the picture as we drive past

That token little setup won't generate enough income to hire an after school student to mow weeds twice a year.

[Guest]

Sun is pretty low on the horizon for the angle of those panels. An engineering fail, when considering a steeper angle would mitigate snow cover and increase winter performance.

Just got caught up in the hoopla
“Get em up , for everyone to see !!!”

[ajl]

On the AESO site the most interesting renewable project to watch is Vauxhall (located north of Taber AB)solar and the Halkirk (east of Stettler AB) wind farm. While most renewable project produce the square root of squat these ones are on the board with production more often than not. Don't know if they produce enough to economically viable, (I doubt it) but at least these project do produce something most of the time. Vauxhall tilts the panels to follow the sun during the day I understand.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

You guys all missed the obvious explanation.

This is the ultimate green make work project.
As you can see from the picture, The morning shift has already come and gone and has finished putting the snow on the solar panels.
The late shift hasn't shown up yet to sweep it all off.
This ensures that Productivity of the solar farms will be as close to zero as possible, so even more solar farms will be required To produce almost something , Requiring countless more snow appliers and removers.

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Edit, how else to explain positioning them horizontally instead of angled at the sun?
How else to explain the lack of snow everywhere else except on the panels?

[sumdumguy]

1. That is probably not snow but ice. Black panels were warm when snow fell. To remove would damage panels.

2. Why not angled ? maybe because wind could get under them and kaput.

I dunno

[shtferbrains]

Not worth the time to change them or sweep them.

[Old Cowzilla]

Nothing more than sled jumps at that stage. Warming up here this morn only -30 with sun up already!

[shtferbrains]

Freezing on the south Texas coast.
They will have to buy some brooms.

[chuckChuck]

The snow and ice should melt off once temperatures recover. I brush mine off regularly. If they are leaving snow and ice on all winter that will reduce production a lot.

The angle is too low for winter compared to mine. That will also reduce wintertime production. Some arrays can easily adjust the angle seasonally

According to Dispatcho the Brooks solar site has made 46.26 Gwh of electricity since it was built.

Take a look at Dispatcho for yourself.

https://www.dispatcho.app/live/BSC1?r=76782840 https://www.dispatcho.app/live/BSC1?r=76782840

Yup solar still needs complete backup. But when the sun is shining what solar produces can be matched to load requirements which displaces grid supply. Wasn't there some irrigation farmers in Alberta who installed solar to offset some of their high electricity costs.