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So our 45 million dollar 10MW solar farm is having 25% of its panels replaced because they are damaged. The farm is only a few years old:
http://www.aecon.com/What_We_Do/Power/Power_Projects?id_1699=36
http://www.hatch.ca/Power/Solar/Projects/lilylake.htm
The project was awarded in 2010.
http://www.gopeterborough.net/index.php/...lake-solar-farm
Quote:
Peterborough Utilities crews will be busy swapping out and replacing damaged solar panels over the next few months.
David Whitehouse, Director of Customer & Corporate Services with the PUC, says last year they discovered some of the panels at the Lily Lake Solar farm showed clear signs of weather damage in the wake of an unforgiving winter.
Whitehouse says damaged panels suffered delamination and about 25% of the more than 13,000 panels will have to be removed, exposed of in an environmentally friendly manner, and then replaced with newer more effective equipment.
Damage is contained to one section of the facility and work on the restoration has already begun with the removal of some panels, which will take time.
The work will have an effect on the solar farm's output, which is why work has started now in preparation for the warmer sunny days of summer.
With the damaged panels not performing up to expectations, officials are happy to say the replacements will offer substantially more output.
Whitehouse says they are tackling the job at full bore in an effort to get through the work and their timeline for completion of the task at hand will rely heavily on the weather.
Currently it looks like most of one of the fields has been ripped up. I'm curious as to the cost of this endeavour on top of the 45 million already spent.
We've also go the Darlington Nuclear refurb project going on, whose second stage (the new build proposal of adding 4,800MW of capacity) was cancelled by the government because of the "excess" power it would create (current capacity of 3,512MW, 20% of Ontario's power).
This is after they blew 1 billion dollars on a gas plant that doesn't exist
The Darlington plant cost 11.8 billion (way over budget) and has been operating at capacity since 1993. At 22 years old, this is gives a cost of $152,723 per MW per operational year.
The Lilly Lake Solar farm cost 45 million and has been operational since June of 2011. At 4 years old, this gives us a cost of $1,500,000 per MW per operational year.
Cost for the current refurb is pegged at 12.9 billion for Darlington, which should give it another 20+ years of service. The cost for the current solar farm repairs are currently unknown.
http://www.aecon.com/What_We_Do/Power/Power_Projects?id_1699=36
http://www.hatch.ca/Power/Solar/Projects/lilylake.htm
The project was awarded in 2010.
http://www.gopeterborough.net/index.php/...lake-solar-farm
Quote:
Peterborough Utilities crews will be busy swapping out and replacing damaged solar panels over the next few months.
David Whitehouse, Director of Customer & Corporate Services with the PUC, says last year they discovered some of the panels at the Lily Lake Solar farm showed clear signs of weather damage in the wake of an unforgiving winter.
Whitehouse says damaged panels suffered delamination and about 25% of the more than 13,000 panels will have to be removed, exposed of in an environmentally friendly manner, and then replaced with newer more effective equipment.
Damage is contained to one section of the facility and work on the restoration has already begun with the removal of some panels, which will take time.
The work will have an effect on the solar farm's output, which is why work has started now in preparation for the warmer sunny days of summer.
With the damaged panels not performing up to expectations, officials are happy to say the replacements will offer substantially more output.
Whitehouse says they are tackling the job at full bore in an effort to get through the work and their timeline for completion of the task at hand will rely heavily on the weather.
Currently it looks like most of one of the fields has been ripped up. I'm curious as to the cost of this endeavour on top of the 45 million already spent.
We've also go the Darlington Nuclear refurb project going on, whose second stage (the new build proposal of adding 4,800MW of capacity) was cancelled by the government because of the "excess" power it would create (current capacity of 3,512MW, 20% of Ontario's power).
This is after they blew 1 billion dollars on a gas plant that doesn't exist
The Darlington plant cost 11.8 billion (way over budget) and has been operating at capacity since 1993. At 22 years old, this is gives a cost of $152,723 per MW per operational year.
The Lilly Lake Solar farm cost 45 million and has been operational since June of 2011. At 4 years old, this gives us a cost of $1,500,000 per MW per operational year.
Cost for the current refurb is pegged at 12.9 billion for Darlington, which should give it another 20+ years of service. The cost for the current solar farm repairs are currently unknown.