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Finishline42

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7. There's another possibility...

Wed May 11, 2016, 06:57 AM

May 2016

There's another possibility...

That newer panels have advantages over older panels - mainly higher output which has shown a steady increase over the last 20 years. That means of course that if you have a limited amount of space you would replace the ones that paid for themselves in 10 years with the latest model. Kind of like people do with cars. Which brings me to the term 'scrapage age'. What evidence is there that the panels were actually scraped? If they still were producing electricity then they were probably re-tasked - maybe donated to a local non-profit for instance?

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