On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 11:56:15 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
How did the temperature of the roof surrounding the PV panels compare?

On 6/26/2017 6:43 PM, wrote:
On Monday, June 26, 2017 at 4:23:32 AM UTC-4, wrote:
The Treasure Coast Soaring Club will soon have a new house thermal. Florida Power And Light is in the process of building a 400 acre solar power plant within 3/4 mile from our airport. Heat from this type of farm should make for a great house thermal. Anyone out there with experience flying over solar farms? Thanks, Bob
lets make this somewhat simple, the temp of the solar panes on top of the hangar today was in excess of 115 degrees F. I measured the temp reading with a heat gun. The panels number about 16, and the output is a max 8kw. I don't have the output capacity of this project, but I would guess that 100 acres of solar farm could produce 20 MW therefore 400 acres would be 80MW.. I would think that if those panels produced the same amount of heat as the ones on the hangar roof and heat travels up, I would assume that we would get some thermal activity from the project.

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Dan, 5J

Good question Dan. The roof is white and was about 12-15 degrees cooler than the solar panels. Also just west of the 400 acre solar project FPL is building another solar plant exactly the same size. That would be 800 total acres of panels within 2 miles of our strip. will be interesting to see what difference it makes. These farms are to be finished by September, unless a hurricane strows them all the way to Nebraska.