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It's news because new solar farms are one of the things this site reports on. See this story from a few weeks ago for example: https://electrek.co/2024/10/21/a-
by burkaman 2y ago
It's news because new solar farms are one of the things this site reports on. See this story from a few weeks ago for example: https://electrek.co/2024/10/21/a-solar-farm-comes-online-on-a-coal-ash-landfill-site-in-west-virginia/ https://electrek.co/2024/10/21/a-solar-farm-comes-online-on-....
They report on other countries as well, here's a story about a much larger project in China from yesterday: https://electrek.co/2024/11/14/china-worlds-largest-open-sea-offshore-solar-farm/ https://electrek.co/2024/11/14/china-worlds-largest-open-sea....
One reason this one could be notable though is that the panels are US-made, I think that is somewhat unusual.
- philipkglass 2y agoThe solar panels are made by First Solar, which has a significant market share for panels in large US solar farms. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/18/weekend-read-the-fruitful-search-for-other-thin-films/ https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/18/weekend-read-the-frui... First Solar is not the only cadmium telluride solar manufacturer but it is by far the biggest. It is also the only thin-film company in the list of top 10 solar manufacturers by shipments in the 2022 ranking published by California-based SPV Market Research. First Solar is also in the top 10 in the latest ranking from Taiwan-based InfoLink. ... Paula Mints, chief market research analyst at SPV Market Research, said that First Solar had a 36% share of the United States utility-scale solar market in 2022. “I would look at their 2023 share of the US utility-scale market as similar,” she said.
- burkaman 2y agoThat is a lot more than I realized, I guess US-made is not really noteworthy then.