Summer storm damages worlds largest floating solar plant at Omkaresh.

[Barry Markson]

https://www.lokmattimes.com/national/madhya-pradesh-summer-storm-damages-worlds-largest-floating-solar-plant-at-omkareshwar-dam-watch-video-a514/

Indore: A summer storm on Tuesday damaged a floating solar plant at Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar dam. The floating solar plant, situated in the backwater of the dam, is the biggest of its kind in the world. A joint venture between Madhya Pradesh Govt and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), the project was nearly completed and ready for its launch. A part of the project became operational last week.

The project near the village of Kelwa Khurd, aimed at generating 100 MW of electricity, with additional capacities of 88MW at Indawadi and 90 MW at Ekhand village. However, on Tuesday, summer storms with the speed of 50kmph hit the project and threw the solar panels all around the place. No employee was fortunately injured.

Seems a bad placement for a solar farm.

Reminds me of a big solar farm south of Phoenix that was hit by a haboob that etched the panels a few years ago.

[erronis]

1. that's a sad tale. But it also made me look up haboob

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haboob

Makes sense in the deserts such as Arizona (and soon more of the US).

[Barry Markson]

2. Oh they already occur in other deserts and arid parts of the US.

They were also a feature of the mega-drought dust bowl 1930's on much of the North American continent.

They just aren't referred to as haboobs.