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"During construction, the Dutchman project will employ a peak of 447 workers, with about 20% hired locally. Once operational, it will employ three full-time workers."

Big difference in number of workers.. Only 3 full time when operational?

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I would guess that most solar fields have 0 full time field operations staff. There’s not much day-to-day maintenance. Everything can be monitored remotely and maintenance workers or contractors can be dispatched when problems arise. There aren’t any moving parts (unless you have fancy tilting panels), it’s a bunch of PV panels attached to metal racking, with wires going back to the monitoring equipment and distribution switchgear.

I imagine daily maintenance won’t be much and they’ll probably hire out to contractors for significant repairs/additions

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