Amazon Secretly Shut Down All Its Solar Rooftops After They Started Catching Fire

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Amazon Secretly Shut Down All Its Solar Rooftops After They Started Catching Fire
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Amazon — which made solar power a key pillar of its plan to reach zero emissions by 2040 — secretly switched off all rooftop warehouse solar panels.

— secretly switched off all rooftop warehouse solar panels amid multiple fires and safety concerns.

— it should definitely be powered down. But the company failed to make the malfunctions and the subsequent shut-downs known to the public, which means that the company was apparently withholding info about both employee safetyshowed that between April 2020 and June 2021, there were at least six separate incidents of rooftop solar panels either catching fire or suffering electrical explosions.

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