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Amazon Rooftop Fires Prompted Solar Panel Shutdown
« on: September 04, 2022, 01:03:50 pm »
Watts Up With That?  by Eric Worrall 9/2/2022

CNBC: Amazon Rooftop Fires Prompted Solar Panel Shutdown

Last Year Amazon was forced to take all their solar panels offline, after the panels caused six separate fire and explosion incidents. Amazon blames third party installers for the problems.

Between April 2020 and June 2021, solar panels atop Amazon fulfillment centers caught fire or experienced electrical explosions at least six different times.

“The rate of dangerous incidents is unacceptable, and above industry averages,” an Amazon employee wrote in an internal report viewed by CNBC.

Rooftop solar is part of Amazon’s broad plan to zero out emissions by 2040.

On the afternoon of April 14, 2020, dozens of firefighters arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Fresno, California, as thick plumes of smoke poured from the roof of the 880,000-square-foot warehouse.

Some 220 solar panels and other equipment at the facility, known as FAT1, were damaged by the three-alarm fire, which was caused by “an undetermined electrical event within the solar system mounted on top of the roof,” Leland Wilding, Fresno’s fire investigator, wrote in an incident report.

A little over a year later, about 60 firefighters were called to an even larger Amazon facility in Perryville, Maryland, to put out a two-alarm blaze, local news outlets reported.

More: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/02/cnbc-amazon-took-rooftop-solar-offline-after-roof-fires/

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Re: Amazon Rooftop Fires Prompted Solar Panel Shutdown
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2022, 05:46:53 pm »
That's a shame.
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Re: Amazon Rooftop Fires Prompted Solar Panel Shutdown
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2022, 06:25:31 pm »
They had the same problem trying to go large-scale in the Sahara Desert.  The panels were overheating the surface  of the sand.
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