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Comment on Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US - 12.37-megawatt - the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles

Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

On a cloud-free day with ideal sun angles, that’s a theoretical max of 60MWh/day. Just to be conservative, let’s go with half that on average over the year. That’s ~11TWh/year. Yeah, that should handle a couple of large amusement parks.

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
And while it was an investment to do, they essentially just zeroed one of their largest bills. Why isn’t everyone with a large parking lot doing this again?

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- deft@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Because most of their money isn’t liquid they can’t actually afford it
  
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  - locuester@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    If it made financial sense, any bank would give a loan for a project whose generation offset a greater cost than the monthly payment. Assuming decent business history.
    
    The companies that sell these projects likely partner with some financial institutions to offer loans.
    
    So I don’t think this is a liquidity issue.
    
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