Recently in the news and attempting to get the city of Vancouver to make it easier for permits etc., to allow everyone to put solar panels on their homes.
Vancouver Renewable Energy Cooperative,
Its
difficult to determine if this is a co operative or a business. Their description of their cooperative is every one shares equally in the work and profits? I think the term Co-operative suggests something else to everyone that might get involved with them.
The same principles involved with SolShares doing the leasing program, and Vancouver Renewable Energy, a business? All interrelated, SolShares prospectus does say one "could lose all their money" and its "a risky investment", buying shares. VREC does all the installations but clearly state they have no obligation, financial or otherwise in anything that may or could go wrong or not meet expected results from the SolShares business/co-op- whatever it is.
The same principles involved with SolShares doing the leasing program, and Vancouver Renewable Energy, a business? All interrelated, SolShares prospectus does say one "could lose all their money" and its "a risky investment", buying shares. VREC does all the installations but clearly state they have no obligation, financial or otherwise in anything that may or could go wrong or not meet expected results from the SolShares business/co-op- whatever it is.
Solar
Panels in BC will increase GHG’s not reduce them.
The VREC/SolShares recent news on TV made it appear that solar was to be the saviour to
future energy requirements and GHG reduction in BC, nothing could be further
from the truth.
This
requires an understanding of how the grid power in Alberta mostly from coal and
gas is so different from BC where power is clean green hydro power.
VREC mandate is to reduce Green House Gas, in BC no solar panels decrease any GHG. Solar panels don't fall out of the sky, they take a lot of non renewables to make and transport, to somewhere where the sun doesn't shine? Solar panels might last 25 years, but makes less power every year with age and become toxic waste.
VREC mandate is to reduce Green House Gas, in BC no solar panels decrease any GHG. Solar panels don't fall out of the sky, they take a lot of non renewables to make and transport, to somewhere where the sun doesn't shine? Solar panels might last 25 years, but makes less power every year with age and become toxic waste.
The graph
below in Red shows how Alberta power demand reduces at night, they cannot shut down their non renewable energy plants quickly, BC takes that
unused coal power in Blue, from around midnight till morning. No solar panels in BC work at night that I know of, there is no GHG reduction from BC solar.
Because BC doesn't take Alberta power in the day the only time solar works if its sunny.....read link
below.
Alberta
can’t shut down their coal and gas plants quickly as can hydro, their power is
either wasted or sold to BC. BC buys it
in off peak hours (at night) for 2.6c/kWh saving our water in our
reservoirs. Alberta buys our green hydro power back when demands(daytime)
require more power, 10.4c/kWh. BC hydro is a net exporter of power, to
BC’s advantage, receiving almost 4 times more for our hydro power.
The solar
promoters in BC would have everyone believe we are buying coal power and BC
solar panels will help reduce the GHG’s.
The opposite happens, solar only works in the day, it has nowhere to go
to reduce GHG’s, and if BC did not take Alberta coal power at night, this would
be power wasted and really increase GHG’s.
Alberta has
stated by 2030 they will have shutdown their coal and gas plants. Site C will be on line, BC will be clean
green hydro power with power to export, probably to Alberta, they will have a
hard time replacing all that power no longer made from coal or gas. Public money or any money spent on solar
power in BC is misguided and misinformed greenwashing.
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