Thousands of solar panels in Texas destroyed by hailstorm
In New York, Newsweek reported that thousands of panels on a solar farm southwest of Houston, Texas, were damaged by a powerful hailstorm on March 15. According to the report, aerial footage showed rows of cracked photovoltaic cells at the Fighting Jays Solar Farm near Needville in Fort Bend County. The solar project, which began producing power for Texas’s energy grid in 2022, generates 350 megawatts across 3,300 acres of land and is expected to power 62,000 homes, the report added. A spokesperson for Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), one of two companies behind the solar farm, confirmed to Newsweek that the hailstorm had damaged some of the solar panels on the site. “We are currently assessing the extent of the impact of the storm on the generation of the project, while the plant continues to safely operate at a reduced capacity,” the spokesperson said.
