THE ULTIMATE ABSURDITY
That would be the Nelson community solar garden.
The Nelson solar garden in 10 years or less
The solar garden real costs likely over $300,000, don’t be fooled
by their $186,000, its forgetting to show the public all the costs. Forgetting?
What city wouldn't like to have their own power plant making power for 2 cents/kWh and sell it for 10 cents helping the city reducing taxes paying for city services.
What city would then waste money on a solar garden that only makes power midday when it can't be sold, doesn't save any GHG anywhere. The concept of reducing GHG from the solar garden is to avoid the fuel otherwise spent in a conventional power plant somewhere burning non renewable fuels like coal or gas. If the power doesn't even get to the grid because no one is buying, the solar garden is a GHG contributor. What power is Nelson hydro putting to the grid midday if the sun shines in summer, the only time any appreciable solar power is made?
What city would then waste money on a solar garden that only makes power midday when it can't be sold, doesn't save any GHG anywhere. The concept of reducing GHG from the solar garden is to avoid the fuel otherwise spent in a conventional power plant somewhere burning non renewable fuels like coal or gas. If the power doesn't even get to the grid because no one is buying, the solar garden is a GHG contributor. What power is Nelson hydro putting to the grid midday if the sun shines in summer, the only time any appreciable solar power is made?
The $963 per panel buy in is a token amount for those who want to feel "green", it has nothing to do with real costs and everything to do with picking everyone else's pocket so the mayor can say Nelson is a green city.
They want to start a "movement" keep it up Nelson will go broke. Every Kw of private solar panel will be at the expense of lost income selling 2 cent cleaner greener Nelson hydro power for 10 cents and letting that profit flow over the dam wasting clean green waterpower.
Solar power in Nelson is picking the pockets of the taxpayer already living in a very expensive city. The public statements everyone who opts in and buys a solar panel will receive a year round credit, from what? This is a green house gas reduction project?
My grandchildren will inherit this pile of junk if they last 20 years. 10 Tons of solar panels plus mounting structures covering a soccer field making less power every year as they age. Will the city send out snow clearing crews in winter everytime it snows for solar panels that already cost us the lost income from selling otherwise 4 cent Fortis power for 10 cents that these solar panels pretend to replace?
Now they are selling panels for the second solar garden, the first one sold out!!!
You will get a sticker for every solar panel you buy so you can proudly put it in your window.
And they want to keep picking our pockets, another warm fuzzy project,the the big wood stove one estimate $6M 30 year payback. I am beginning to have a huge dislike for the term "Green House Gas Reduction".
We have completed microhydro engineering report on the city water intake, showing it will pay for all the upgrades and make power for the next century or longer just like our dam. The Pressure reducing station part of the Hall St. project is ready to install microhydro. This new technique accomplishes the pressure reduction and makes power,,,,win win.....and we are putting in solar panels? Who is managing this?
If you don't want your pocket picked anymore,,, let city council know. There are only a couple councilors that I know get it,,,,
.contact city council here
if you don't want your pocket picked for this greenwashing.
Will this city begin making business decisions?
Solar power in Nelson is picking the pockets of the taxpayer already living in a very expensive city. The public statements everyone who opts in and buys a solar panel will receive a year round credit, from what? This is a green house gas reduction project?
My grandchildren will inherit this pile of junk if they last 20 years. 10 Tons of solar panels plus mounting structures covering a soccer field making less power every year as they age. Will the city send out snow clearing crews in winter everytime it snows for solar panels that already cost us the lost income from selling otherwise 4 cent Fortis power for 10 cents that these solar panels pretend to replace?
Now they are selling panels for the second solar garden, the first one sold out!!!
You will get a sticker for every solar panel you buy so you can proudly put it in your window.
Look at me I'm green---I think? They told me I would be?
And they want to keep picking our pockets, another warm fuzzy project,the the big wood stove one estimate $6M 30 year payback. I am beginning to have a huge dislike for the term "Green House Gas Reduction".
We have completed microhydro engineering report on the city water intake, showing it will pay for all the upgrades and make power for the next century or longer just like our dam. The Pressure reducing station part of the Hall St. project is ready to install microhydro. This new technique accomplishes the pressure reduction and makes power,,,,win win.....and we are putting in solar panels? Who is managing this?
If you don't want your pocket picked anymore,,, let city council know. There are only a couple councilors that I know get it,,,,
.contact city council here
if you don't want your pocket picked for this greenwashing.
Will this city begin making business decisions?
The Emperor Has No Clothes
Norm Yanke
Electronics Supv. retired
Electronics Technologist.
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