Howell Mayhew Engineering

This is a great concept -- a motorised trolley system that rolls over the PV modules in order to permit any maintenance. I wonder how this could be applied to agPV systems.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/10/ciel-terre-unveils-new-floating-solar-solution/?

Ciel & Terre unveils new floating solar solution The new floating PV structure removes traditional maintenance walkways between module rows to enable more solar modules to be installed per hectare. Ciel & Terre has also developed a motorized trolley system capable of rolling over the structure.

Alberta -- Canada's solar powerhouse.

Every 40 days, Alberta's solar resource is able to provide all of Alberta with all its annual electricity, heat, and motive energy.

Fascinating thoughts... What do you think about this? Of course trees provide many other very very valuable services to society in addition to their GHG emission reductions, and I would want to be care-full in arbitrarily cutting down trees for to make way for solar PV arrays.

For central Alberta, with a PV array yield of up to 1200 hours per year and a provincial GHG emission rate of 0.57 kg/kWh, then a single 400 W solar PV module reduces our provincial electricity GHG emissions by ~270 kg per year (but only as part of a complete operating PV system and not by itself), which would (it seem) equal the annual GHG emission reduction capacity of 12 mature trees !! hmmmm... I never thought of it like this !!

A single solar panel can offset the carbon emissions of 10 trees Using broad average values of 48.5 pounds of carbon sequestration per year for a mature tree, versus 0.85 pounds of emissions offset per kilowatt-hour of solar electricity, it’s clear that so…

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