{"id":258,"date":"2018-12-28T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2018-11-28T21:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T21:36:11","slug":"what-happens-if-i-dont-clean-my-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/what-happens-if-i-dont-clean-my-solar-panels","title":{"rendered":"What happens if I don\u2019t clean my solar panels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Failure to clean your solar panels will result in their productivity dropping.\u00a0 The loss is cumulative.\u00a0 Can it be reduced by hosing off the solar panels with a hose or rain?\u00a0 Sure, a little.\u00a0 As noted in a previous article, hosing off panels or simply allowing rain to be the only effort at cleaning will result in dirty panels.\u00a0 Also, there is a danger of damage to a panel if improperly direct spray allows dirt and debris to accumulate in one corner of a panel.\u00a0 You risk reverse polarity (source: SunPower\u2122 engineer) and even possible hot spotting which can kill a solar panel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>In addition to risking your panels, you are simply throwing away money.\u00a0 We are not talking about esthetics there, we are talking dollars.\u00a0 If you do not allow panels the opportunity to achieve their potential output, you are flushing dollars down the drain.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1020998.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-151\" alt=\"P1020998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1020998-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1020998-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1020998-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1020998-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure to clean your solar panels will result in their productivity dropping.\u00a0 The loss is cumulative.\u00a0 Can it be reduced by hosing off the solar panels with a hose or rain?\u00a0 Sure, a little.\u00a0 As noted in a previous article, hosing off panels or simply allowing rain to be the only effort at cleaning will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solarpanelcleaningsystems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}