Texas Photography – Solar Power

I needed a break from the video editing for a while and started to go through some of the 2019 archives – Adventures in Texas photography. Here’s one from a solar power farm being built out in the outskirts of Encino. The project owners are from California and I believe this will be one of their first solar power farms based here in South Texas. I’ve seen the huge wind farms they have out in Cameron county, but have never seen a solar power farm up close.

This is just a glimpse of phase one and what you don’t see is all the cabling they put into this whole project. They tether all these banks together with what I’m guessing would be miles and miles of cable. I decided to go with the drone to finish up the project as I didn’t want to end up as a snack for rattle snakes. It was pretty cold that morning and the snakes were apparently coming out to sun themselves.

Never been a fan of taking unnecessary risks so I just hung back. You have to love technology. — in Encino, Texas.