Cutting Trees For Solar Panels

Branches and leaves can block sunlight from hitting your roof which means your solar panels aren t maximizing their electricity production potential.

Cutting trees for solar panels.

It might seem environmentally counterproductive but it actually makes sense to trim or cut trees to make room for solar panels. Trinity episcopal church in stoughton is surrounded by woodland. As i do agree that a tree s leaves and branches will block out the sun s path towards the solar panels a rather important reason to have a tree removed is whether the tree will fall down on the panel during tornados strong winds or hurricanes. Although we can calculate the amount of greenhouse gases offset by solar panels other things just can t be quantified like the sustenance and comfort that trees provide.

All the time we have been enforcing construction rules as to making commercial buildings put x. Some environmental benefits of trees however can be counted. Let s do the math here. Removing trees to get more exposure to solar panels is actually very environmentally friendly.

Sometimes solar can involve painful tradeoffs. Boo hiss at cutting down trees for solar panels a quandary. Trees or solar panels aug. One of the only instances where cutting down trees can be environmentally friendly is if trees were being removed to maximize solar panel exposure.

It s a difficult truth but solar power and trees do not always get along. Tim yaotome october 23 2018 at 3 49 am. That s a tough question. In the foreground is a copse of trees which could be cut down to make space for solar panels.