{"id":169093,"date":"2023-08-05T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/this-new-robot-cleans-solar-panels-without-using-any-water"},"modified":"2023-08-05T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T19:24:43","slug":"this-new-robot-cleans-solar-panels-without-using-any-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/this-new-robot-cleans-solar-panels-without-using-any-water","title":{"rendered":"This new robot cleans solar panels without using any water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-robot-cleans-solar-panels-without-using-any-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It reduces water wastage and carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to photovoltaics, dust is the enemy. This is not a trivial concept, even if it may seem so at first glance; actually, the problem of soiling \u2013 the accumulation of dust, dirt or sand on PV panels \u2013 can decrease, sometimes significantly, the performance of solar power systems,\u201d stated an Enel Green Power <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enelgreenpower.com\/media\/news\/2023\/08\/innovative-robot-cleaning-photovoltaic-systems\" title=\"press release\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">press release<\/a> published on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><b>Desert areas<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an issue that\u2019s particularly important in desert areas, areas with low rainfall, and those characterized by the presence of very dusty soil, where soiling can have a heavy impact on energy yield, but in any case, it\u2019s something that concerns solar power everywhere, because regardless of location, cleaning the panels still involves costs, including environmental ones.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It reduces water wastage and carbon emissions. \u201cWhen it comes to photovoltaics, dust is the enemy. This is not a trivial concept, even if it may seem so at first glance; actually, the problem of soiling \u2013 the accumulation of dust, dirt or sand on PV panels \u2013 can decrease, sometimes significantly, the performance of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}