[porphyra]

You'll need an insane amount of battery storage, since the moon only rotates once per month and you'll need to power through a long period of no sunlight.

[Lord-Jobo]

Or just very long power lines and multiple solar stations, it's not like the moon is impossible large. But that would be harder than a singular location using nuclear fuel, it's true.

[photochemsyn]

A belt of solar panels encircling the moon would solve that problem though perhaps a bit ambitious at present.

[dotnet00]

Or alternatively, for polar bases, very tall panels, which would be able to be in permanent sunlight.

[JumpCrisscross]

> very tall panels, which would be able to be in permanent sunlight

Or normal panels on the rim of Shackleton [1]. (You'd still want to bootstrap with fission.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shackleton_(crater)#Potential_...