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Thanks Kat! I wish I had the knowledge, experience, and connections to write such an article--perhaps some of the other more well-informed folks here might be interested? Thanks also for the link to your Popular Mechanics article. Right on target. ------------------------------ Mark Juedeman --- ...

Thank you all for you comments and recommendations. I feel quite a bit validated in my concerns after hearing from you all. It seems to me that distributed energy, especially solar, could provide a great deal of personal and community resilience to the threat of a major solar storm, but I don't hear ...

As the 2024 solar maximum approaches, and I consider the risk (albeit small) of a coronal mass ejection taking down the grid, I wonder what advice our experts here have about hardening our PV system (including storage) against an electromagnetic pulse. Faraday cages around the balance of system components? ...

Hello John, Thanks for your reply! I understand that for smaller systems there may be no advantages to active two-axis tracking systems. Indeed, we have two small arrays of manual-tilt 1-axis pole mount systems at our family ranch which we tilt seasonally, with very good results. However, I am interested ...

Thank you for sharing your experience, Robert! While I am especially interested in large-scale tracking systems appropriate for systems at our maximum cap of 50kW, this is helpful in case we ever add ground mounts to our home array. Thanks again! ------------------------------ Mark Juedeman mjuedeman@gmail.com ...

Thank you, Wyldon. The installations that I saw were very large and definitely tracking in two planes (e.g., facing sun when I saw them at two different times during the day). I'm interested in examples of large commercial trackers that would be at suitable scale for arrays at our maximum cap (50kW) ...

Thanks for all this, William! I should have been more complete, and shared that I am looking to provide input to our City government for any future solar projects. These would be installations at the max cap (50kW), hence my interest in large scale tracking experience. Thanks again, Mark -------- ...

Hello All, Here in Montana, within IOU service territories, net metering is capped at 50kW installed capacity. Several years ago I traveled to Vermont, and was impressed by all the large pole-mount tracking systems. It seems that those would be really helpful here as well, to produce quite a bit more ...