You know, I’m glad you asked. Lemme show you.
What Hurricane Milton did to a Duke Energy solar farm in Florida. https://t.co/3JJuQPHo2d pic.twitter.com/w2QV5WA9l7
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) October 13, 2024
Beats those piddly hailstorm dinks all to pieces, doesn’t it?
What this big frickin’ mess, with the tornado tire tracks running right through the middle like someone used a shovel in snow, is called is the ‘Lake Placid Solar Plant‘. It’s part of Duke Energy’s Florida operations and is located out in the Central FL swamps, which is also, coincidentally, where Hurricane Milton blew through, accompanied by a mind-blowing number of tornadoes in those outer bands.
The circled yellow tag is the facility and the green tag peeking out from behind it is the battery storage for it.
The 180,000 panels, 45MW Lake Placid solar farm was apparently groundbreaking for its day, as the battery…
