Solar Panels Deal

Has anyone herd of this company "Three Points Land", from Oklahoma City OK. they are looking for land to put solar panels on and in the letter it sounds pretty good finically compared to corn and soybeans. But it usually don't end up that way!

These companies float in the wind like Dust Devils, Caution at ALL Times.

You should see the massive land destruction that has been done for a solar panel farm less than 3 miles from my place. I had understood that solar panels could conform to the natural lay of the land, not at this project there are 3 huge mosquito breeding ponds that have been dug with the equal mountain of rocks that came from the holes. 

Before the solar was even thought of being in an open field there was concern of the amount of land lost to development. Can’t imagine how much land is being lost now.

Edited by Mikez - 24 Nov 2024 at 11:29pm

If any of the cells become damaged, hail is a big problem these leach the Cadmium, Arsenic, Lead and other nasty elements used to produce the Under Glass components. Leads to issues that if notice are usually CONEX boxes on the sites, away from the viewed edge, these to store broken panels as cannot be removed from the sites except by a Hazmat hauler to a recycler that as yet does NOT exist.

There have been several landowners in our area that have committed land for solar farms. 

That’s probably why there are trying to label it farm by running sheep under them. To still fall under the ag assessment tax thingy.

Has anyone ever seen a site get returned to the way it was before.

I don't think they have been around long enough to see them decommissioned yet but give them another 10 or 15 years. If you drive by and look at those sites it would take 10 years or more to turn them back to farmland and more to get them productive. Some of them will probably end up in the hands of government because they will cost to much to clean up. Companies will take the money and disappear or go broke and leave the mess behind. They will need some kind of superfund to clean it all up.

I just got a letter from New Energy Equity

LANDOWNERS, BEWARE! If it looks too good to be true, it's probably not true! Of all the solar "deals" I'm aware of, NONE will prove to be beneficial in the long run. In the Northern parts of U.S., solar is only about 20% efficient at best. Why would any business with a good mind for economy of returns want to invest in something with that low efficiency? With a growing world population, why do we want to take productive farm land out of production? Have any of the Solar companies come up with a decommissioning plan and put it in writing so the lessee is protected when their "project"is no longer viable? I am not aware of any of the solar companies addressing the issue of damaged farm tiles while installation of projects. Once solar project installation is completed, there will be few if any jobs (local) connected to any given project! Does anyone have accurate information regarding what materials are used in building solar panels, where are they being built, how toxic is the material, if a hailstorm damages panels will land be contaminated, how long will contamination last in the soil? As addressed earlier in this forum, land taxation? This, solar, is a BIG hoax led by the liberal left!!!!!

My son has made several pullers now for a Solar company to remove the posts on damaged solar fields as they were using a excavator at first but getting in-between rows of panels did not allow room to maneuver. 
His first unit was sold to company and it is now on 3rd owner in 4 years . That company ordered 2 more units and resold them .
 He just finished and shipped another unit but differs as it has 2 - 5" hydraulic cylinders added with pull force required of 40,000 pound lift potential to remove post and concrete used to stiffen post / ground  anchoring . 

We are planning to install a solar water pump system in our pasture.