Solar panel fires on some Amazon buildings

 Daily Caller:

Amazon powered off all solar panels from its warehouse roofs’ in 2021 after its installations malfunctioned, leading to multiple fires and electrical explosions across its North American warehouses for over a year, according to CNBC.

Solar panels caused “critical fire or arc flash events” in at least six of its 47 North American warehouses with solar installations, between April 2020 and June 2021, according to internal documents acquired by CNBC. The fires caused Amazon to temporarily diable all its solar installations as the company wanted to ensure its systems were designed, operated and maintained correctly before they could be brought back online. (RELATED: Amazon Acquisition Will Expand Its Robot Artificial Intelligence Presence In Your Home)

Arc flashes are a form of electrical explosion and can result in serious injury or even death, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

“Out of an abundance of caution, following a small number of isolated incidents with onsite solar systems owned and operated by third parties, Amazon proactively powered off our onsite solar installations in North America, and took immediate steps to re-inspect each installation by a leading solar technical expert firm,” an Amazon spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Amazon’s 2021 sustainability report that the company released at the beginning of August did not mention the removal of solar panels nor the numerous fires that resulted from solar installations. In the report, Amazon claimed that 115 of its warehouses worldwide would be powered by rooftop solar installations, up from more than 90 in the middle of the year.

“The rate of dangerous incidents is unacceptable, and above industry averages,” an Amazon employee wrote in one of the internal reports.
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Energy production by green sources is subject to combustion.  I have seen pictures of fires on windmills and electric vehicles.  Now we learn that it can happen with solar panels too.

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