A Solar “farm” in the path of Typhoon Bavi. (From the video below).
By Jo Nova
The price of low intensity energy is large vulnerable infrastructure
Typhoon Bavi travelled right through a zone of multiple coastal solar parks in Zhejiang, China on July 12th. It’s difficult to confirm details, as there are few news reports and the CCP don’t seem to want to put out a press release. But we know Typhoon Bavi made landfall in Zhejiang in Eastern China near Taiwan, and Google satellite shots show quite a few large solar panel installations were right there in the water and on the tidal flats where the typhoon hit. These sitting ducks of glass had no protection.
Some hybrid solar “farms” double as fish farms too. The largest one, called the 550MW Taihan Fishing-Solar hybrid project has (or had) 1.4 million solar PV panels covering 4.7 square kilometers,. It was finished in December 2021. Another one, the Hengtai 550MW fishery and photovoltaic farm was only connected up on July 30 last year. It cost 1.46 billion yuan ($200m US) and covered 194 hectares. It was not even a year old before it faced it’s first Super Typhoon. It was a baby. Presumably all these “farms” would have been expected to last 25 years or so, not 1 to 3. Insurers must be hurting. Rates will rise.
And if the solar parks are rebuilt, they’ll need to be stronger, so construction costs will rise too. An expensive lesson.
As @Luanne_Ashe said: Toxic waste dumps on the water. DON’T EAT THE FISH
As commenter @donrane said: No one could have predicted these annual returning Typhoons to return.
Imagine putting something like this in front of a typhoon
Imagine if a coal plant was destroyed by a storm?
Taihan 550MW Fishing-Solar Hybrid Project
The aftermath of one solar array (in the video). Stripped.
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China Observer has put together the solar panel footage:
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Before the typhoon, there are several large solar parks on tidal flats, in the water and on the beaches looking very vulnerable.
As seen in Google Maps.
As seen in Google Maps.
The second video shows waves that would have pummeled those panels. (The preview frame looks AI but not the rest.)
Luckily there are no reports of injuries or deaths so far, apart from wallets, and in the future — marine life.
h/t Willie Soon, Tonyb, ClimateDepot
There you go you Climate Alarmists. That will teach you.
Mother Nature can often be quite difficult.
She has turned your Renewables Project into a Ruinables one.
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Yeah,
That’ll learn ’em!!
Of course, Black-Out Bowen will have his blinkers on.
And, coming to a solar plant near you.
I just wonder, are they insured against “climate events”?
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You never see coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro (not SH2) power stations destroyed by the weather.
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