Balfour
Public Grant money Solar System Scam Part 1
Below is a screenshot from the public
on line data for the Balfour Community Hall solar system.
They are misrepresenting the system size anyone using this data will be fooled.
I have brought this to the attention of
those and others involved more than once.
The last
public news release stated 305 watt panels were installed. There
are 60 making the
system 18.3kW yet they show 12.4kW
installed.
Anyone using this public data (there
are thousands available in the world) will be fooled.
The information shows the system cost
$157,130 for 18kW or $8.72/watt almost triple
what
one might expect. Presuming it was on budget.
The first year it earned 13686kWh.
Nelson hydro makes that for $119 and sells for a 500% profit.
If you really do the complicated calcultions I won't go into here its worth maybe $29 at best!
Business case borrowed $157,000 is
$9600/yr for 25 years.
They take our public grant money that
society could use for real needs, Nelson hydro allows full retail for
any of their solar credit made in summer when Nelson doesn't need
their power and
they cash in that solar credit in
winter when Nelson hydro is buying excess power from
Fortis for 5 times as much as their own generation. Nelson hydro loses the power sales from their cleaner greener waterpower. Nothing is cleaner than our waterpower. That makes solar dirty power adding to our carbon footprint. Cradle to toxic grave if the panels last 25 years the power is never cleaner than our waterpower plus all the non renewables in mining, smelting and transportation and final toxic hazardous material end of life costs.
Lose Lose Lose, grant money better spent wasted, Nelson hydro income from cleaner water power sales lost that helps bring down our hydro rates, and its dirty power.
Fortis for 5 times as much as their own generation. Nelson hydro loses the power sales from their cleaner greener waterpower. Nothing is cleaner than our waterpower. That makes solar dirty power adding to our carbon footprint. Cradle to toxic grave if the panels last 25 years the power is never cleaner than our waterpower plus all the non renewables in mining, smelting and transportation and final toxic hazardous material end of life costs.
Lose Lose Lose, grant money better spent wasted, Nelson hydro income from cleaner water power sales lost that helps bring down our hydro rates, and its dirty power.
Greenwashing absurdity at its finest.
There is part 1, more to come.
PS All the information necessary to arrive at the $29 per year valuation for this solar systems annual power requires a very in depth knowledge of when solar power has value, for example from spring runoff through high summer water reservoir/lake levels when water is spilling, solar is worthless. We don't even use all the water. When our water batteries become useful in winter draw down, solar power is negligible, when we could use the power. Example, the Duncan Lake reservoir is one of our winter batteries, 30 miles long, fills up 100 feet for 1.4Million acre feet of storage. Similarly Libby and Kootenay lake. Several million acre feet of water that goes through our hydro generators for six months until spring runoff refills and the cycle repeats.
PS All the information necessary to arrive at the $29 per year valuation for this solar systems annual power requires a very in depth knowledge of when solar power has value, for example from spring runoff through high summer water reservoir/lake levels when water is spilling, solar is worthless. We don't even use all the water. When our water batteries become useful in winter draw down, solar power is negligible, when we could use the power. Example, the Duncan Lake reservoir is one of our winter batteries, 30 miles long, fills up 100 feet for 1.4Million acre feet of storage. Similarly Libby and Kootenay lake. Several million acre feet of water that goes through our hydro generators for six months until spring runoff refills and the cycle repeats.
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