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Solar worked fine during the winter storm.
by jackmott42 4y ago
Solar worked fine during the winter storm.
- ed25519FUUU 4y agoOnly if the house was equipped with a battery, which is not common. There’s a NEC requirement that solar power stops when the grid goes down to prevent power islands. The only way around this is a battery. Also lithium batteries can’t charge in sub-freezing temperatures without permanent damage.
- pengaru 4y agoSolar isn't limited to homes, does Texas not have any solar farms on the grid? TFA doesn't clarify this.
- vel0city 4y agoThere are solar farms in Texas, a bit over 8GW installed so far with several large projects planned to come online soon. I've driven past some pretty large solar fields out in far west Texas. It's an interesting scene seeing extremely flat lands all the way to the horizon filled with some randomly placed rusty old pump jacks, massive arrays of solar panels, and massive wind turbines in the distance.