Dark days ahead for the UK solar industry;
44,000 solar rooftop panels, previously exempt from business taxes, will now face a wall of expenses as the government finally takes its share of profits. This does not bode well for the UK’s solar industry, which seems to be extremely sensitive to governmental policy changes – when subsidies were cut last year, the industry lost 12,000 jobs and growth fell 85 percent.
The solar industry, of course, is outraged by the direction the government is moving. Many are claiming these taxes will undermine all the progress the government has sought after for so long in the renewable energy sphere.
How can this be? Sunlight is free.
Faster please. The AGW fraud needs to go into the dustbin of history.
Now, if only we could only move the Marxism permeating our schools into the dustbin of history. My oldest grandson told me last evening that one of his small rural Saskatchewan high school teachers is teaching the grade nine class about their “privileged” whiteness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvTczyHxNHc
The taxman’s taken all my dough,
and left me in my stately home
Lazin on a sunny afternoon
I can’t sail my yacht,
He’s taken all I’ve got
All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon.
“Many are claiming these taxes will undermine all the progress the government has sought after for so long in the renewable energy sphere.”
Progress, eh? There is electability and then there is “progress”.
Electability was assured before the Brexit vote, but now there is a viable alternative
to the Tory government. The Tories aren’t competing against Labour(even though labour has an unreconstructed Commie for a party leader) for their piece of the pie and can no longer pursue socialist political policy without considering the political cost of doing so at the ballet box.
By the way, why is it that only the British Tories have women for party leaders and not the further Left parties?
Is it the Muslim constituency of the Leftist parties that put the kibosh on that?
Wait on second. Isn’t England known for it’s moss and dark rainy days?
If so, solar power requires sun right.,
Our local BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station is in the process of covering the entire parking lot in solar panels. 2,000 parking stalls covered with solar panels … THANK YOU Obama !! THANK YOU wasted public subsidies !!
BTW … BART is exempt from all local zoning regulations … so this eyesore of 2,000 Apartment-style carports is going up in a neighborhood where the average home sells for $ 1.4 million. The commuters get FREE shade for their parked cars … everyone else is forced to look at it.
Oh !? And did I mention that BART cut-down about 200 mature (read: large) trees to clear all the sun angles … really, really, really … UGLY. But opposing an “alternative energy” project … is akin to kicking puppies or tipping over seniors in wheelchairs … solar panels trump nature. Trump trees. Trump the living environment
And shall we talk about the COST ? The actual Chinese-made solar panels are relatively cheap … but the steel carports supporting them are a HUGE $$$$$. The whole thing is idiotic … and will provide 0.003 of BART’s annual energy use.
I can’t stop laughing at this article.
America’s First Solar Roadway Is A Total Disaster
A prototype solar roadway in Idaho was supposed to represent a possible green energy future, but technical issues have exposed just how far off the technology is from prime time.
Screenshots taken by Twitter users from the roadway’s official webcam show smoke coming out of a nearby electric box. Firefighters soon showed up to the scene, prompting the solar project’s official webcam to issue an update: “The Solar Roadways electrical system is currently undergoing maintenance. Please check back late next week.”
The prototype has a long history of disastrous technical issues. Roughly 25 out of 30 panels installed on it broke within a week after developers pumped $3.9 million into it over 6.5 years of development.
Despite massive internet hype, the prototype of solar “road” can’t be driven on, hasn’t generated any electricity and 75 percent of the panels were broken before they were even installed.
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If it had worked, the panels would have powered a single water fountain and the lights in a restroom, after more than $500,000 in installation costs provided by a grant from the state government.
speaking of energy policy et al, this just in:
apparently the dehumidifiers touted by the wynndefarm as ‘energy saving’, there has been a recall ordered by Health Canuckistan:
http://vocm.com/news/health-canada-issues-dehumidifier-product-recalls/
I don’t have one, my buddy that told me about the freebie took the junk humidifier that was being replaced by the spankin’ new defective one.
Im curious why it took so long for the authorities to send ME the recall notice . . . . .
Do you realize that “humidifiers” and “dehumidifiers” are totally different products?
meh. typo. twas a *de*humidifier he made off wit’, as in ‘bring out yer dead and inefficient *de*humidifiers’.
the punch line of course is I never got to do the ‘trade up’.
if this keeps on, we’re going to wind up charged for electricity per friggin electron.
the damage the wynntard and her ilk have done to this province will NEVER be undone completely; opportunity costs and all that.
According to the article you linked, the cheap Chinese dehumidifiers are being recalled because they’re unsafe. What does that have to do with Ontario’s foolish energy policies?