[DetectDefect]

> I haven’t touched ours, they are clean and have been going fine with zero maintenance, though admittedly it’s only been a year.

> Where are you getting this maintenance schedule from?

The solar panel owner does not know the required maintenance they are now permanently responsible for. Ibid, your honor.

[otterley]

You’re being extremely argumentative all over the comments to this story. Do you yourself own any solar panels? Your ceaseless naysaying constantly contradicts people’s lived experience (including mine) as owners.

Focus on solutions, not trying to be right. It’s aggravating.

[rsynnott]

> Your ceaseless naysaying constantly contradicts people’s lived experience (including mine) as owners.

Also, like, every study on this matter. The efficiency drop from being dirty for vaguely modern solar panels is _tiny_; below 5% and potentially below 1%.

[lostlogin]

They are clean, I can see that and could wipe them if I needed to. The power output is the same.

Where are you getting this maintenance schedule of yours from?

[triceratops]

> Where are you getting this maintenance schedule of yours from?

Their "Anti-Solar Talking Points" handbook from Big Oil.

[rsynnott]

As above, cleaning solar panels is generally close to pointless.