New Jersey utilities float solar panels on reservoir, powering water treatment plant

Tech Xplore ^ | 6/6/23 | Wayne Parry

[DallasBiff]

New Jersey's Canoe Brook Water Treatment plant produces 14 millions gallons of drinking water a day.

Each one of those gallons weighs around 8 pounds , so it's quickly apparent that a large amount of energy is needed to move water from a reservoir to the treatment plant and into the 84,000 homes and businesses that the New Jersey American Water Company serves in the area.

So the water utility partnered with NJR Clean Energy Ventures, the renewable energy subsidiary of the natural gas firm New Jersey Resources, for a solution

[DallasBiff]

What happens when a major hail storm happens, or the inferior made panels leak their toxic chemicals into the drinking water? ,p> Craziness in democrat states.

[PGR88]

You can go through all this technical BS, massive cost, and massive risk to get some “green energy” (which isn’t green at all), to serve the fake marxist green religion

Or you just install a simple gas generator.

We choose the former.

[Tell It Right]

According to my math, that's $1,617 per kW of solar capability. (The only price given is for $7.2 million for one half the size, so I used those numbers.) That's twice as much per kW as you can get for home solar (without getting into battery storage and such), even though they could have taken advantage of the economies of scale and gotten a better deal than home solar buyers.

That's the main problem with solar as the Dims present it. It's always done by government officials and removes the private sector further and further away. That's not even getting into if it's wise to do solar in NJ where they probably get a lot less sunlight that we do in the south.

[joshua c]

my first thought too

seems like a disaster waiting to happen

[butlerweave]

Polluting the water

[Be Free]

What happens when a major hail storm happens, or the inferior made panels leak their toxic chemicals into the drinking water? Craziness in democrat states.

How about in the winter, when NJ is known to get snowfall, and for lakes to freeze over? Will they still produce power when covered in snow and ice? Will the entire array freeze over and be subject to breaking (expansion and contraction)?

[oldasrocks]

What will grow in the warmer water and cover the panels? Then they would have to spray with Roundup.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Exactly.

[logi_cal869]

I would love to read the training docs pertaining to maintaining/repairing such a facility.

[mabarker1]

Are talking about a Water Treatment Plant or a Water Treatment Plant with the solar panels ?