Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm

Largely a non-story, and anti-solar propaganda. It is a consideration when designing solar panels and fields, but a minor one. Simply an insurance question: insure all the panels, if a storm happens, replace the destroyed panels. With the massively falling cost of solar panels, the cost to replace will soon be trivial, making this even less of a concern.

Golf-ball sized hailstones are unusual and likely outside the design space.<p>Crazy that people were concerned about &quot;chemicals leaking&quot; -- do they think the panels are full of goo?

In Texas, golf ball sized hail is a twice-a-year thing.<p>Baseball sized hail falls every 3 years.<p>Source: I am a native Texan.

I thought those solar panels are designed to survive hail stone storms.

Vertical solar is better, significantly less surface for hail damage.

Everywhere I have read has said solar panels are specifically designed to handle this. Maybe these were scammer panels?