{"id":1213,"date":"2015-01-18T11:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T11:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2024-10-31T09:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:52:20","slug":"pv-panels-and-strong-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"PV Panels and strong Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_5273-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1191\" src=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_5273-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5273 (1)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_5273-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_5273-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_5273-1.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>When surveying for PV installations we are often told by the customer that they are exposed to strong winds and will the panels cope with this?<\/p>\n<p>As part of the design process the wind loading of the panels is calculated and accounted for at different geographical and height locations.<\/p>\n<p>Together with the above and the use of MCS compliant mounting systems we have had no issues with any of our installations over the past 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Shown below is an installation on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, recent wind speed recorded in Stornoway reached 113MPH \u2013 apparently Stornoway is quite sheltered compared to the west coast where the panels are located!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewis1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1194\" src=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewis1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"lewis1\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewis1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewis1-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewis1.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewwis-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1193\" src=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewwis-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"lewwis 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewwis-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewwis-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewwis-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2015\/01\/lewwis-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When surveying for PV installations we are often told by the customer that they are exposed to strong winds and will the panels cope with this? As part of the design process the wind loading of the panels is calculated and accounted for at different geographical and height locations. Together with the above and the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/?p=1213\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PV Panels and strong Wind<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-solar-pv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}