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While I certainly welcome lower-cost solar panels, and would most certainly include solar power when I own my off-grid homestead, I am deeply concerned about the tens of thousands, and soon to be hundreds of thousands of acres of land being developed for industrial solar farms across the state. Information both on solar farms and smaller, more appropriate uses of solar technology.

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Mixing solar panels – Dos and Don’ts • SOLAR POWER SECRETS

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Mixing solar panels – Dos and Don’ts • SOLAR POWER SECRETS

Though mixing different solar panels is not recommended, it’s not forbidden and things would be ok as long as each panel’s electrical parameters (voltage, wattage, amps) are carefully considered.

When you intend to wire two panels produced by different vendors, the vendors are not the problem.

The problem is in different electrical characteristics of the panels, together with different performance degradation.

We put solar panels together to increase the solar-generated power.

Ditching Net Metering Is in the ‘Best Interest’ of Solar, Say MIT Economists | Greentech Media

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Ditching Net Metering Is in the ‘Best Interest’ of Solar, Say MIT Economists | Greentech Media

“I think we’ve got to find a better way to do it, because I think net metering is going to result in a pushback against residential solar,ȁ said Richard Schmalensee, economics professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, on the sidelines of the report launch in Washington, .C.

Mega Solar

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I am really not convinced that these mega solar industrial solar facilities ☀️ popping up in the Mohawk Valley really are that great for the environment. While it might give the liberal politicians something to brag about, I’m not convinced yet that they are displacing much fossil fuels or reducing climate change. And I think these tariff schemes that that the marketers are selling to green minded consumers are just scams.

I do think there is benefits both to the grid, homeowners and the environment for roof top solar but that’s a vastly different beast then these industrial solar facilities that are gobbling up forest and farm land and polluting my social media feeds with their scammy advertising.

Large solar farm proposed for Thompsons Lake Road | The Altamont Enterprise

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Large solar farm proposed for Thompsons Lake Road | The Altamont Enterprise

KNOX — A 4.4-megawatt solar farm that’s proposed for 1688 Thompsons Lake Road, an undeveloped Knox property of roughly 33 acres owned by Mark and Janet Viscio, will not be subject until a public hearing until at least December.

Knox Planning Board chairman Tom Wolfe told The Enterprise that the town board must first designate the planning board as lead agency — the entity that determines whether an environmental impact statement is required for a project and then is responsible for the preparation of that statement.