Construction of a Solar Project
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2021
- Building Wisconsin TV features the members of Operating Engineers 139 to learn more about the construction of a Solar Power Project near Wisconsin Rapids. Host Stuart Keith meets up with Matt Benner from AZCO, Matt Mashuda from Mashuda Contractors, Tim Kreft from Alliant Energy and Terry McGowan, President of Operating Engineers Local 139.
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I seen Kenny Bork on this show and he was the guy that taught me how to run a GPS grader watching this show makes be proud to be a local 139 operating engineer
Our farm is perfect for a solar project on each side of our farm we have two different sets of electric towers to connect into
Thanks for this, I'm getting into the industry and this gave a good summary of the job site overview
Most informative.
It's fantastic to see how many new jobs and opportunities this transition to our new modes of energy is, and will continue to create, exponentially so, in this country. Millions and millions of new jobs, not only building but maintaining these fields, both solar and wind, then the additions of batteries as we go on.
Very cool - construction tech!
epic! but yeah I agree the video image is very pixelated on HD 1080
Wow, 1200 acres!
Great video. But why don't you use machine guidance like Trimble Groundworks to save massively on time and accuracy?
They specifically mention Trimble at 20 minutes in
I have land and i wish i could lease it out but have 0 idea where to start
There's a quarrel between the carpenters and electricians on these solar farm jobs. The electricians dont like carpenters installing the panels to the pilings. Carpenters dont see the panel installation as electrical work, but as part of the structure and in the scope of carpenters work.
Carpenters should stick to wood
#IBEW
There is a solar farm surrounding our property. They pushed up 1,200 acres of thriving pine trees put them in large piles and set them on fire . The smoke made us all sick. They had rules to go by for the construction they could only work six days a week from sunup to sundown. Not only did they work on Sunday they put up lights and worked through the night. They had no concern for what they were doing to those of us who live around the project. They also said they were going to hire 200 people to build this project. They had 200 people working for them alright but they brought them in from other places. They didn't bring any jobs to our community like they said they were.
Stop whining.
“Wow” to 1200 acres of solar is crazy 😂you’d be suprised what we’re doing in Indiana in 2023 right now.
Removing topsoil means it will never be farmed again after decommissioning - if the leases ever ends. These are Solar power plants with inverters and substations - not a solar farm , call it what it is
They do not remove all of the topsoil and it would actually cost more time & money to unnecessarily do so. Some solar projects may not need to do much but drive piles over _existing_ untouched soil. In this particular project, they had to regrade because it had over 1-million tree stumps from a previous pine tree farm (10:19).
At 27:15, they replant vegetation in and around the solar farm to regenerate any disturbances to the soil. Solar panels have over 25yrs service life with still some 80+% of their capacity remaining at that time.
Critically, these solar farms may actually _never_ be decommissioned. Because as the years and *decades* go by, these arrays can be progressively and constantly renewed - even as the arrays are still running - with the latest generation of solar panels/inverters. The decommissioned solar panels are still useful in other less critical roles and can be donated or sold in the used market for many more years of life before eventual recycling.
Solar farm construction/maintenance is ground level work and does *not* require highly skilled labor to do the bulk of the work. It is the easiest power plant to build by far.
Agricultural farms are not exactly shining beacons of environmentalism either. The many decades of solar operation would give the land a more peaceful existence than it ever had as an actual agricultural farm with fertilizer, pesticides and constant tilling that releases any captured CO₂ from the soil. Then there's displacement wild life especially burrowing animals. Solar technology uses all solid state electronics and requires *zero* material in-flow and out-flow so it would be a peaceful life for the soil beneath it for long continuous periods of time.
From The National Family Farm Coalition:
"Due to intensive farming practices, nearly half of all productive topsoil has disappeared in the last 150 years. In the US, topsoil is eroding 10 times more rapidly than it can be replaced. Fertilizers, with voluminous untreated animal waste from factory farms, are polluting ground and surface water across the country."
Therefore, it is not incorrect nor inappropriate to call these solar projects "solar farms" as it is using the land for a productive social and economic purpose that has even less impact on the land than farming.
So they removed a Green forest to add a solar project?
I live in Michigan, and they are clearing hundreds of acres of trees and draining and filling in wetlands for solar. It's strange how things that aren't legal for normal people to do, change when the government has an agenda.
A mono culture of trees is a very bad thing! A meadow under solar regenerating soil is Greta for insect, mammals and bio diversity overall!
The real Renewable Energy Engineers, like me, never cut a tree, neither destroy the soil, to install photovoltaic panels. We used base installed of groups 32 to 50 photovoltaics 3 or four meters over the soil, letting the grass and the food to grew behind and under the photovoltaic panels..If there is a tree, ok, we install the solar panels between the trees, avoiding the shadows,....
Because the trees avoid wind problems that could damage the panels, the trees give humidity ans lower the summer temperatures, that means the photovoltaic panels work better, given between 10 per cent and 30 per cent of more solar energy. But we are all Renewable Energy Engineers, we never hire workers from building construction sites, without knowledge of solar panels. The designer of this land site is a Renewable Energy specialits the same that a butcher is to a surgeon. I m crying in anger watching what this ignorants are doing with thr land. Never use, never, somebody from construction companies..Renewable Energy must be there to give more nature and wilderness and food to the land, not to destroy it. Using this machines for the construction site, it is like using a cannon to kill flies, you wil never get a fly down, but you will destroy everything around
I have an honest question. How much money do they expect to make if they pull all the stumps, level out with dozers, pull the topsoil back, grade it out with scrapers, and then put hte topsoil back, then seed it.... Thats all before they put the poles in the ground. Thats shocking. at 25:00 he explains it all. Its the government, and they are going to pass all these expenses on to the people in the grid. Solar is cheap. Solar costs less than nuclear, natgas, wind, coal in the USA, etc.... But with all this ground work, it will be VERY expensive. If I was running this plant, I would leave the stumps in the ground, mow, put up the poles, and put up a fence to turn this ground into grazing for sheep. I could have had electricity flowing out of this site in less than 1 month, but instead the people running this job spent the first month waiting for the caterpillar scrapers, dozers, stump pullers, and raking equipment to get trucked in. Here's the kicker. Solar panels at this point in time have a 30 year lifespan, so by the time they are ready to pull out the panels, pull out the poles, the stumps would have rotted and sunk into the ground, and it would not have made one damn bit of different if you pulled all the stumps out.
MOSS does it better