City of Nelson Director of Technology

As City of Nelson Director of Technology can you tell me if the city is applying for CBT funding?

CBT announces $900,000 for community buildings alternate energy systems.¹

Lets analyze the above--less electricity purchases---  Nelson buys half its power from Fortis if you don't know they buy this at about 4c/kWh and resell for a 300% profit yet solar costs are 10 times that.  Just one of the many deceptions regarding the solar garden.

Nelson Hydro - Regional Energy Efficiency Proposal for RDCK –

Alex Love P Eng Manager of Nelson Hydro²

Alex’s first design and install of Solar PV was in 2000. This system is still in place. Alex’s experience with several electric utilities includes a number of customer driven grid tie solar PV installs (mostly homes and schools). The most recent significant PV experience is with the development of the Nelson Community Solar Garden. In this project Alex played a support and mentoring role to the project manager, Carmen Proctor, where he collaboratively he provided solar PV engineering expertise, general project management guidance, and customer buy in model guidance.  So why did Nelson hire a consultant for the solar garden?

There are dozens of publications regarding the Nelson Solar garden stating Nelson Hydro is promising

a return on investment in 12 to 15 years.

 The consulting engineers only able to come up with
a 25 year payback with a faulty engineering report.

How do you explain the public being told payback is guaranteed in 12 to 15 years when
even the engineering report can't provide a 25 year payback without faulty inputs.
Mr. Love is a qualified solar person from above information taken from an on line publication.

Nelson Hydro is promising a return on investment in 12 to 15 years ³

it could take approximately 12 to 15 years for subscribers to break even on their investment.⁴

The slide below from a Nelson hydro presentation showing solar garden ROI in 12 to 15 years

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1https://nelsonsolarpower.blogspot.com/2018/11/get-your-community-building-savings-for.html

2https://rdck.ca/assets/Government/Documents/2016-12-08-BRD_Agenda.compressed.pdf

3https://www.miningandenergy.ca/general/article/a_successful_sunny_garden/

4http://missionled.com/blog/solar-gardens-growing-clean-cool-and-collective-energy/