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How a Solar Farm Cut Panel Cleaning Costs by 40 Percent
On this episode of The Operations Podcast, Lucas and Luna break down how a utility-scale solar farm in the American Southwest slashed its panel cleaning budget by 40 percent. They walk through the operational challenge: dust and grime can cut solar output by up to 30 percent in arid regions, but cleaning every panel on a 100-megawatt site is slow, water-hungry, and expensive. The farm ditched the uniform scrub-all-panels schedule and switched to a data-driven approach that combines satellite imagery, on-site sensors, and predictive weather models to decide which rows need cleaning and when…
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