“Deploy, deploy, deploy.
That has been the mantra in solar development, and deploying quickly and efficiently remains a principal goal. But all that deployment has built some 142,000 utility-scale, 20,000 commercial, and 7,000 community-solar installations in the United States alone. And installed capacity grows with each passing day.
That’s great news. But while solar power is far lower maintenance than the fossil-energy plants they supplant, they aren’t maintenance-free. Storms damage panels. Inverters fail. Critters nibble on wires. Dust collects on panels and vegetation shades them. And solar farms can be in far-flung locations where land is cheap and skilled labor scarce.”
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