Unfortunate Solar Installation of the Month: Utility-Scale Edition

Adventures in lousy O&M. Or a mid-development bankruptcy. This month’s winner is a seemingly neglected utility-scale solar farm in Germany.

It's hard to know what to make of this weed-ridden solar installation photo by Knut Loschke taken in June of last year.

It's a photo of a solar farm near Markranstädt, Germany. The photo was used by an anti-solar group to show the folly of solar.

Ed Gunther suggests that perhaps "someone went bankrupt or did not get a O&M contract," although it's "hard to imagine why anyone would allow this with feed-in tariffs."



 

Readers are welcome to caption this photo or suggest just what is going on in this picture:

 

 

We covered this very shady solar installation in Palo Alto, California at the offices of Congresswoman Anna Eshoo a few months ago.