Comments on: Georgia Votes For 525 MW Of New Solar Projects

By: jburt56

jburt56 — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:48:00 +0000

Yes, conservatives are coming over to solar. For example, Barry Goldwater Jr in Arizona–

http://dontkillsolar.com/site/

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:26:00 +0000

Yea, I get all the profits, you take all the risks. Sweeeeeet.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 04:06:00 +0000

It’s a strategy that was cooked up by the nuclear industry a few years back.

1) Get permission to raise the cost of electricity well before starting to build a new reactor. Use the extra money (seized from customers) to help pay for construction. This is not only free money to the reactor owner, it also lowers the amount of money that has to be borrowed.

2) Raising the cost of electricity long before the reactor comes on line means that the necessary price increase after the reactor comes on line will be a smaller increase. Part of the caused price increase would have happened years earlier. A nickle now and a nickle later is less noticeable than a dime all at once.

Georgia customers didn’t wise up to this until it was too late and their utility company had stuck it to them. Florida citizens smelled the rat and stopped it.

If the Vogtle reactors come on line the owners get free money to help them pay for their new generation.

If the Vogtle reactors aren’t finished (as many reactors aren’t) taxpayers have to pay off the loans.

You’ve got to admire nuclear’s glow-in-the-dark cojones.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 03:51:00 +0000

Will this is good new. Georgia also let Vogtle 3&4 start collect money during construction. And promised that they could charge whatever it takes to make a profit. Together these are about 2.3GW so got a long way to go in solar before they even come close.

By: Others

Others — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 01:25:00 +0000

Great News. If every state has some initiatives like this, it will give a big boost to Solar Power.

They should also start using Solar Water Heater which can be used for space heating as well.

By: Omega Centauri

Omega Centauri — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:04:00 +0000

This is indeed an interesting development. And 525 MW is not shabby.

By: Shiggity

Shiggity — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 23:29:00 +0000

Solar just works. It creates jobs, creates energy that can’t be exported, and can be located anywhere.