Recent news of a severe hailstorm damaging a solar farm in Texas included headlines stating that broken panels could pose a threat to the environment. The truth is that solar panels are safe and a necessary power source as America works to meet ever increasing demand. . Thousands of panels on a solar farm southwest of Houston, Texas, were damaged by a powerful hailstorm on March 15. Aerial footage showed rows of cracked photovoltaic cells at the Fighting Jays Solar Farm near Needville in Fort Bend County, local news channel KTRK reported on Saturday. . CUNNINGHAM, Texas (KETK) – Solar panels that were destroyed by severe weather last week are now scattered across several fields in Lamar County. “We drove around and it was torn up,” Cunningham resident Landon Woodall said.
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