Solar

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.

Solar Farm

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One of the many solar farms outside of Canastota that have been popping up lately.

Taken on Sunday November 5, 2023 at Solar.

Bogart Road Solar Farm

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One of the new ones found on the latest round of aerial photography from NYSGIS, south of Cario and Roundtop off NY 32.

DG Bethlehem Solar West – A One Megawatt Industrial Solar Facility

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This gives you an idea of what a one-megawatt industrial solar facility looks like, this one down by the Selkrirk Railyard. That said, the 1,000 MW number is a bit misleading, as the 18.7% monthly capacity factor as the panels don't generate any electricity during the night and much less during the winter.