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this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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Until a hail storm takes out thousands of acres of panels, or tornadoes.
https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-solar-panels-texas-destroyed-hailstorm-1883546
Ironically, even oil companies use wind or solar to pump oil.
The article talks about thousands of destroyed panels across thousands of acres of production. Thousands of panels are somewhere in single digit to low double digit MW production capacity range. With a claimed production capacity of 350 megawatts this is a single digit percentage reduction in production, after a storm with baseball sized hail.
Yeah, commercial-scale solar in the US tends to be installed on a mount allowing a single axis of rotation. This lets the owners rotate it into a vertical position when a hailstorm approaches, sharply reducing the amount of damage.
How common is baseball-sized hail in Texas??