Thank you for your thoughts! Oooer – I hadn’t thought about security lighting, that had better be no.1 on the list when I go to the public consultation. Your speculations are in line with my own. I had 12 PV panels installed on my garage roof in 2016 – wish I had 120! They are very thin and light weight, their thermal intertia is surely next to nothing. I suspect that at some times of year they will actually improve seeing. After harvest, in the autumn the fields are often left for several months with bare earth. That heats up in the autumn sunshine and degrades evening seeing. That effect will be removed. And effectively the panels are removing megawatts of energy before it hits the ground, whether pasture, crops, or earth.
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