What does 550 Megawatts of Solar Panels Look Like?

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

We all know what Solar looks like…

This is what 5KW looks like. That’s 0.005MW

But what does 550MW of PV look like?

This Blemish Tells the Story

Looks like Ford F-150 to me.

Each 500’ x 500’ block generates about 1.5MW

There are About 400 Blocks in this Project

3.5 Miles

The 550 MW Topaz Solar Farm, California

3.5 Miles

Downtown Portland, Oregon

3.5 Miles

550 MW of PV on Top of Portland

100,000 X =

That’s a lot of solar.

And this is leading to some

amazing financial results

June 30, 2015

Warren Buffett @ 3.87¢July 8, 2015

100MW Project3.87¢ per kWh

Aug 20, 2015

156MW ProjectBeats Natural Gas

The scales have tipped in favor of solar, but the scale is crazy different.

There’s Nothing Wrong with this Picture.