Financial information involving the true cost of Solar.
Next month, Dominion Energy Virginia customers will begin paying Virginia’s first direct carbon tax on their bills. The amount they pay to buy carbon dioxide allowances from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will not be listed on the bill separately but will produce a noticeable bump in price.
CA Agency May Scrap Electric Bus Fleet After Electric Buses Melt in California Sun, Catch Fire, Cost Too Much to Fix
The electric bus idea is going down in flames – literally.
A California transit official said electric buses manufactured by Proterra are melting in the California heat.
Busses melting?? And one caught fire while it was charging! Besides that, the buses are just too expensive to repair. Imahine that!
All these problems in CA, BUT Biden is still allocating BILLIONS of dollars to expand electric vehicle charging stations.
Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.
Chapter 313 abatements were created to entice businesses to relocate to Texas and entities across the state have issued hundreds since 2001.
Just a few weeks after the Texas legislature declined to renew the state’s property tax abatement program for school districts, Troy ISD looks to consider a $135 million tax break for the Big Elm Solar project under “Chapter 313.”
Nebraska Power Company will Spend $651 Million For Gas Power as Backup For a $397 Million Solar Plant. This could cost the county $975 Million in lost taxable valuation and result in 4,700 fewer housing units and 11,175 fewer residents and the county may not be able to stop the utility company from building the new solar and gas plants.
Written By: Justin Parker
I feel I need to make one very important statement that a lot of appointed and elected officials and most everyday people may be overlooking. The promise of millions of dollars in economic development and growth by an industrial solar project is not what it is portrayed as being.
During the twenty-year period that Germany increased the amount of energy coming from renewable sources, the Germans paid a hefty price For example, the average cost of electricity for German households has doubled since 2000.
By 2019, households had to pay 34 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour, compared to 22 cents per kilowatt-hour in France and 13 cents in the United States, according to data from IEEE Spectrum.
The Moss Landing Power Plant could soon be the site of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery project.
Fluctuating solar and wind power require lots of energy storage,and lithium-ion batteries seem like the obvious choice—but they are far too expensive to play a major role.
KINGSTON, R.I. – September 30, 2020 – A study of the impact of utility scale solar power installations on nearby housing prices by University of Rhode Island economists found that house prices within a mile of a Rhode Island or Massachusetts solar array declined by an average of 1.7%. Homes within a tenth of a mile of the installations declined by 7%.
The firm behind a large solar farm in the UK announced that large sites in the countryside like theirs, are an inefficient way of creating electricity.
According to the company, around two thirds of the energy created by one of their large sites is lost when it is transported.
A Television station in the UK interviewed Tim Dobson from Switch 2 Renewable, a solar company and he claimed, the networks can’t rely on renewable energy that goes up and down.
