Apple's Solar Panel Farm is Close to Completion

Posted September 14, 2012 at 8:57pm by iClarified | Please help us and submit a translation by clicking here | 6301 views

Apple is nearing completion of its solar farm in Maiden, North Carolina, reports GigaOm.

There's a lot more panels installed on the field now. When done this first solar farm will stretch across 100 acres and generate 20 MW. Apple is also building another 20 MW solar farm near by. The solar panels and trackers come from California's SunPower. SunPower makes higher efficiency solar panels, which are placed on trackers that follow the sun throughout the day.

Take a look at some photos below taken by WCNC-TV.

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marbles - September 15, 2012 at 7:31am

Better idea is to mount these things on the rooftops of building structures. This looks like poor land utilization...but still - kudos for the green effort. Unfortunately, despite the appearance of "green", PV generates roughly 3-4 metric tons of toxic waste for each metric ton of product. How green is that?

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Tim - September 14, 2012 at 11:17pm

The area was mainly brush and small young trees. Also I read somewhere they are replanting several acres of trees.

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Steve uk - September 14, 2012 at 9:43pm

Well done apple at least money is being put to good use and saving the planet ð

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Crunch - September 14, 2012 at 9:11pm

So Apple's now trying to save the planet? Sweet!

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BrawlBro1 - September 14, 2012 at 9:22pm

Ironic. They're saving the planet by wiping out trees and using the land for their solar panels (which could be used to plant more trees and give the planet some hope).

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sir - September 14, 2012 at 10:24pm

good thinking sir, but the number of trees that should have been there where all the panels are now seated will do too little to the environment. yes, you're right about the trees cut off, just the idea of cutting a single tree is not good, what more at this massive area. but looking at the bigger picture, the benefit of using solar panels in that scale will do good way much to the environment. it's beneficial in a much larger scale. the benefit cancels out the bad side of it in a landslide proportion.

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