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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 1h

The prompt was: "looking at the solar layout of this site provided in the attached drawing, create a pretty project showing flowers and local stuff surrounding the solar in the middle"

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 2h

Just used ChatGPT to simulate a solar layout for the purpose of a zoning meeting.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 5h

One negative of pour concrete in 4ft of gravel is the the rebar that support the structure isn’t being pushed into the firm ground. So when we shook everything into place, we got a bow in the concrete. We will shave the excess concrete off to under the gravel line.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 5h

Have multiple concrete pads, with constantly *evolving* engineering drawings driving constant conduit changes…very annoyed, but ok.

Picture of gravel area where we will build batteries and other equipment

Up close concrete lads with conduit coming up through it

Pad with lots of extra gear used to from the concrete pads (wood frames, rebar to hold frames in place, other components to help pour concrete.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 5h

Onsite at a carport plus battery system. System composed of SMA inverters, Terrasmart racking, and QCell solar modules.

A solar carport with car underneath and the sun behind it

Backside of bifacial solar modules under a carpet

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 05/10/2026

Hey solar folks - anyone got feedback on longevity probability of this module? Just some extra sealant squeezing out?

Silicon sealant squeezing out from the edge of a solar module

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 05/10/2026

On a roof, touching #solar panels, enjoying optimziers, annoyed that certain components aren’t on site and were delaying the construction team…

Module row lined up so nicely- solar modules installed on a large commercial rooftop

Up close of a SolarEdge inverter attached to a piece of DCESolar railing on a large commercial rooftop.

Solar modules from Canadian Solar on a commercial rooftop with the sun up

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 05/10/2026

This website sucks in general. Quite right monkey wing and all - but they got some pictures today:

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 03/10/2026

‘325 orbital launches, 25% more than in 2024. They deployed 4,544 spacecraft, a 54% rise. And 2024 was itself a record-breaking year…2025 SpaceX flew 43 launches for outside customers…closest competitor in commercial launches, flew 18 times - has less than 2% of the payload capacity of the Falcon 9’

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 03/10/2026

lol someone didn't like my response to them :-)

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 03/10/2026

there is, at a minimum, some interest...

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 03/10/2026

After the LLM said it didn't have access to full text, I have it and got this reponse, amongst the many:

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 03/10/2026

Was sent an article on creatine boosting muscle mass without exercise. Never heard that before, so I started reading it, and gave it to the machine to review it along with me. Claude says it found multiple haulcinated references. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 03/10/2026

'rush of rooftop installations in Philippines saw China’s solar exports jump >165% in first half from same period in 2025...Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam are showing similar dynamics' Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam = countries China built solar manufacturing to feed the US before it was cut off

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 03/10/2026

'Consumption across the country’s electricity distribution companies was almost 12% lower in the 12 months to July 2025 compared to the same period three years earlier' 'overdue payments owed to Chinese electricity plants...>$1.5 billion' “This is like a death spiral for all the utilities.”

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 03/10/2026

Boston across the Charles River is shining this morning.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 03/10/2026

Local utility didn’t come to a 10 PM shutdown last night. Three electricians on overtime pay. Positive is that we installed the final component at a neighbor project.

Electrical switchgear coming off of a roof. Conduit coming down to the trough, AC panel, disconnect, CT cabinet, meter socket (left to right).

An Edison Box that we have to tie into. The open gravel is an area we dug out and out PVC into.

These are the copper wires going from our heart the builsing’s existing gear. Decades of energy will flow through them.

An SEL (Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories)n*finnnnaaallllyyy* installed.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 02/10/2026

You’ve got your pallet, I’ve got mine #solar

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 30/09/2026

Submitted this drawing to the fire department. Maybe our last document before our October 13 zoning meeting. Combination rooftop and carport solar power plant. Offsets vehicle fuel, heating, cooling, and electrical needs of hte structure. Cool 200 kW power plant in an industral park. ;-)

Cutout of engineering drawings of a 200 kW solar power plant.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 30/09/2026

HOT!! 'Twenty-two U.S. solar PV manufacturers included in first domestic Ratings Pyramid A new analysis of solar PV manufacturers in the United States by Terawatt PV Research. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/t...

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 30/09/2026

So if you bought this battery for your kid (which, yes, is a little weird), then they could use it about every single day of life, running it down to 0%, and have it with on the day they die (not of battery related causes of course).

Calculator screenshot showing 30,000 cycles divided by 365 days equaling to just over 82 years

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 29/09/2026

Trash filled up, but I gotta say that’s the best stacked trash pile I’ve seen in a while! #solar

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 29/09/2026

Pretty large structures. Lots of space for modules to offset those steel and foundation costs. ‘shading the canals led to less algal growth and less fixed aquatic weed growth — reducing maintenance and improving water quality’ www.kqed.org/science/2002...

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 29/09/2026

‘it now costs an estimated 21p per mile to drive a diesel car and 20.1p per mile for petrol…to drive an EV charged using an off-peak tariff, at 2.3p per mile…electricity bought at the domestic price cap costs ~7p/mile to drive an EV, three times cheaper…government 5p pay-per-mile tax on EVs’

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 28/09/2026

World’s tallest wind turbine about complete - ‘The outer lattice mast: The base consists of a 300-meter-high steel lattice tower that is extremely stable yet comparatively lightweight (similar to a power transmission pylon or the Eiffel Tower)’ www.sprind.org/en/actions/p...

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 28/09/2026

Yeah, of course the 14X is the technical one - that's the high end goal - the aspiration - reality is of course always much less.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 28/09/2026

'ITC extension could be attached to larger, must-pass vehicles - surface transportation, FAA reauthorization, NDAA, or a budget reconciliation package' 'why 45X extended three to four plus years before wind down - supporting domestic manufacturing is "the narrative the [Republicans] want.'

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 28/09/2026

"We are moving into a positive political environment for solar." 'see healthy chance for ITC extended in next year. Three see 50-60%, one sees sub-10%...One sees extension January 2027 to March 2028, another between January - August 2027. Our checks suggest Republicans open to extending ITC & 45X.'

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 28/09/2026

‘Despite President Donald Trump's pro-fossil fuel agenda, some fund managers remain optimistic about prospects for the solar industry as the US seeks to add new electricity sources to meet the power needs of data centers’ ‘UBS Solar Energy Index has declined about 18% this year’ even though:

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 28/09/2026

‘~9% of Japan’s utility-scale solar capacity is on former golf courses, includes arrays with capacity of 0.9 megawatts or greater…At least 1 gigawatt of solar projects either announced or under construction are located on Japanese golf courses — roughly 10% of the current pipeline’

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 27/09/2026

Does this very large spread - $13 - have to do with the risk of Trump yelling about limiting exports to lower pricing before the midterms?

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 26/09/2026

Waymo’s new driverless minivan charging in Cambridge

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 25/09/2026

Folks at Granite City Electric Supply delivering hardware so late they needed to use red lights totake pictures - I got the email around midnight. :-)

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 25/09/2026

Actually, its about 10-20 times too big. My math from back in the day: 'cost across the estimated 25 GW of newly installed solar results in a fee of about $0.002 per watt...cost per panel works out to roughly $0.78 cents per residential solar panel, and just over $1.oo per utility-scale panel.'

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 23/09/2026

Just bought it and added to the back ordering of it! Good job at being in demand @leahstokes.bsky.social :)

Screenshot of a receipt buying Leah Stokes new book The Carbon Wave

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 23/09/2026

Interesting MW down 7%, MWh up 17%... 'national average duration rose 2.8 hours to 3.5, driven by resource adequacy needs...Utility-scale 4.7 GW/17.6 GWh - down 8%...community, commercial & industrial - 48 MW...decline 2% YOY...residential fourth largest quarter, 676 MW - 3% YOY increase'

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 22/09/2026

This is the vehicle I would expect from Saudi Araba - a desert country that already likes dune buggy style vehicles. 'electric sedan has NEDC range of <670 km, 850 hp, 0 to 100 km/h time of 2.6 seconds...5,260 mm long, 2,102 mm wide, 1,428 mm tall, wheelbase 3,200 mm' electrek.co/2026/09/21/c...

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 22/09/2026

Plug-in/"balcony" solar - 1,200 kW+microinverters+racking at $2.24/Watt. That's a *strong* price for gear that can be acquired in other countries for probably $0.50/W. Anyway, they got UL3700 certification. www.mangopower.com/products/man...

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