Sure but like, just use even more solar panels? You can probably buy a lot of them for the cost of a satellite.

And in geostationary, the planet hardly ever gets in the way. They get full sun 99.5% of the year.

even at 10% (say putting it on some northen pile of snow) it is still cheaper to put it on earth than launch it

I'm all for efficiency, but I would think a hailstorm of space junk hits a lot harder than one of ice out on the farm.

Except it doesn't melt like regular hail so when further storms come up you could end being hit by the same hail more than once :\