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This blog is written as a reply to Mayor Kozak of Nelson, her latest response to an email I sent "am I trying to tear down nelson hydro", on the contrary. This blog is for you mayor Kozak, and city council, I expect you to run this city as a business, with projects that benefit the entire community not your or anyone else's agenda picking my pocket. Your solar garden project is one of misinformation, deception and incompetence, and I have continually been pointing this out.
And my latest Blog I believe condenses all my previous blogs
Remarkably the mayor's last council meeting, she was not reelected 2018, they had an award ceremony for the community solar garden.
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| Left to Right, Alex Love manager of Nelson hydro who brought city council a business case for the Community Solar Garden, Carmen Proctor hired contractor to deliver and construct the project (no previous solar work), outgoing Mayor Kozak holding award, Trish Dehnert BC Community Energy |
Update December 2018, the new mayor and council inherited this boondoggle. Reading between the lines of a new councillor engaging in emails with me, has swallowed the cool-aid. Trying to re invent and respin the boondoggle, Nobody will admit to the mistake. He says it was all about education and learning. We already had a system at the high school with years of data, it showed it can't work. There are many other publicly available systems showing the same thing. The city can't and won't admit this was a mistake. They continue to make excuses. The hydro manager who brought the city council a business case for this no longer works for the city, its a start.
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| Kootenay Lake levels for past 84 years, high median, low. Our province overflows with water when most solar power is made, its worthless. BC is a water power province we store millions of acre feet of water in reservoirs and lakes from spring runoff to fall, the same time almost all annual solar power is made. We don't need solar power then, we need it in winter, it doesn't work.. The Pacific Northwest is flooding, reservoirs overflowing we can't use or need all the water. This is the time most annual solar power is made its worthless. |
Another annual graph of Kootenay River water flows, Orange is water spilling beginning in April with spring runoff, we can't use the water, why add solar?
The excess water spills from April through September the same time almost all annual solar power is made, its worthless.
Nelson hydro dam in winter when we could use solar, it doesn't work
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| Half of BC's clean green waterpower is made within a few miles of Nelson Power for a million homes. The Nelson Community Solar Garden from October through March makes enough power for ONE home. I don't see it on the map :) |
Who would install solar panels so the front row shades the back row? Nelson did.
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| A typical graph showing how solar power is made in BC almost all in summer when we can't use it |
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| Not only is solar out of sync seasonally, its out of sync daily, demand peaks are morning and evening, solar peaks midday. |
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| Picture taken April 6, 2017 spring runoff has begun, overflowing the dam is millions of kWh of power this will happen through the fall, what good are solar panels? If we aren't using that power what good are solar panels? My objection is misconstrued by the mayors top comments, "am I trying to tear down Nelson Hydro?" On the contrary I am trying to stop the waste I always sign my letters As always "AN UNWILLING PARTICIPANT!"
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