Comments on: Solar Farms on Old Mine Sites Shining Examples of Smart Land Use

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:23:00 +0000

Some weeks after posting this I checked the shadow on my panels at full ‘mid-winter’ tilt. At 42 degrees latitude my panels throw about a five foot shadow. (At the winter solstice. Top of panels about four feet from ground.)

These panels could be taller than mine and they are located at 51 degrees, so the extra open area could be required, but I’m not convinced.

There’s so little sun during the winter months it might be better to install panels closer together an tilt them up less during the short days in order to get more production out of the available real estate.

I doubt that failing to raise the panels to optimal height would cause more than a small percentage loss and extra rows of panels could easily offset that loss.

By: Solar Panels Farms

Solar Panels Farms — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:48:00 +0000

As usual Germany leads the way, but it is encouraging to see similar schemes adopted here. It’s quite an interesting and useful adoption of otherwise unusable space and area. I’m not sure why they are quite spaced apart like that either. Unless they are elevated and will create shadows on the next row, ergo the space.

By: Grmeyers

Grmeyers — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:37:00 +0000

I agree

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:00:00 +0000

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Wonder why they spaced the panels so far apart? Seems like wasted space.

Another advantage to reusing sites like this is that they probably already had transmission lines run to the site. Now the lines will carry power away to the grid…