This is a good example, a large desert solar park made in Pakistan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaid-e-Azam_Solar_Park#Hurdle...
It massively ballooned in price + issues like dust covering the panels + the large amount of water needed to clean them + cross border tariff issues basically made the energy unaffordable
> Bahawalpur is desert terrain, having high dust count, therefore, the efficiency of panels were reduced by 40%. It required 30 people to clean panels with 15 days to restore the panels back to their full capacity, which reduced production of installed 100MW plant to below 18 MW.[26][27]
> Each of the 400,000 installed panels required one litre of water to clean. A 15 days cleaning cycle required 124 million litres of water (enough to sustain 9000 people) while rain in the Cholistan desert is rare and far between.
also politicians start interfering:
> Despite the fact that Balochistan is more suitable for solar power with more barren land and suitable dust count,[32] Government of Punjab convinced the Prime Minister that Punjab is more suitable venue for solar power. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif later accepted that producing 18.5 MW for Rs. 13.5 billion is an expensive deal.[33]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaid-e-Azam_Solar_Park#Hurdle...
It massively ballooned in price + issues like dust covering the panels + the large amount of water needed to clean them + cross border tariff issues basically made the energy unaffordable
> Bahawalpur is desert terrain, having high dust count, therefore, the efficiency of panels were reduced by 40%. It required 30 people to clean panels with 15 days to restore the panels back to their full capacity, which reduced production of installed 100MW plant to below 18 MW.[26][27]
> Each of the 400,000 installed panels required one litre of water to clean. A 15 days cleaning cycle required 124 million litres of water (enough to sustain 9000 people) while rain in the Cholistan desert is rare and far between.
also politicians start interfering:
> Despite the fact that Balochistan is more suitable for solar power with more barren land and suitable dust count,[32] Government of Punjab convinced the Prime Minister that Punjab is more suitable venue for solar power. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif later accepted that producing 18.5 MW for Rs. 13.5 billion is an expensive deal.[33]