Comments on: Wildly Underestimating Wind & Solar; Aruba Going for 100% Green Energy; Greenpeace Tackles Dirty Finance… (Other Cleantech & Energy News Roundup)

By: RobK

RobK — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:22:00 +0000

Aruba
is the first country in the world with a sort of Solar-Tax

Where
most countries in the world are subsidizing the installation of solar
panels is Aruba moving to an other direction. As of the 1st
of October the local Electricity Company Elmar NV is charging
customers who want to install solar panels a so called “grid
usage fee”. This monthly grid usage fee of $8,43.- per
installed kW p. Basically this means a Solar Tax of $0.06 per
generated KWh by the solar panels. If you don’t agree with the
contract your not allowed to install solar-panels and stay connected
to the grid.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:28:00 +0000

First quarter 2012 – Jan through March

Coal contributed 36.4% of our electricity supply. Down 21.4% from first quarter, 2011.

http://205.254.135.7/electricity/monthly/pdf/epm.pdf

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:24:00 +0000

March 2012 (most recent month I found) coal was down to 34%. That’s a 21.3% drop from March 2011.

Looks like Fox’s decade is coming to an end kind of early….

By: RobS

RobS — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:13:00 +0000

“Four years ago, it was 50 percent. By the end of this decade, it is likely to be near 30 percent.”

As great as it is that Fox is acknowledging the coal to NG/renewable switch it’s still pretty funny that they acknowledge coal has fallen 12% in 4 years but now predict another 8% in 8 years.