Is the production of electricity by solar energy noisy?

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Solar and wind complemented hydropower to produce 1.1 billion kilowatts hours of electricity, for 5.6 million people in Qinghai province. (Business Insider)

Unlike, wind turbines or hydropower stations that produce noise, solar energy systems are silent.

Although a solar panel does a lot of work producing electric current, it doesn’t make any noise.

Inverters are relatively quiet for residential installations due to their small size and amount of energy moving through them.

Noise produced by large solar farm inverters are significantly quieter than a vacuum cleaner.

Although this noise is quite low, it is still noise, but note that commercial installations are usually located far from residential areas.

Furthermore, because solar panels produce power only when the sun is up; inverters will be completely silent at night.

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