Protect Spotsylvania:

Defend Taxpayers

Recent perspectives on the Solar "industry".

There are many ways that this privately owned commercial enterprise -- a heavily subsidized speculative investment propped up by price guarantees -- might adversely affect taxpayers: through increased electricity rates, potential bankruptcies of the "limited liability" corporations established to build and operate it once the current huge federal and state subsidies expire, and potential loss in property values and thus the principal tax basis of the county. And eventually, the cost to clean up the site.

We provide below various independent perspectives on the solar energy "industry". The statistics and opinions expressed are those of the authors.

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"Solar may be advantageous for politicians, corporations, renewable energy activists and their allies. But that should not override other considerations.

Farmers turned occasional power producers would still reap large sums of cash, via net metering and feed-in tariff policies. But crop and wildlife habitat lands would be converted to massive solar arrays, while neighbors would get a blighted landscape and no monetary or other benefits.

As Solar Mania and Solar Sprawl spread, electricity consumers would see their rates climb: from the 9 cents per kilowatt-hour average they now pay in North Carolina and Virginia, ever closer to the 16 to 18 cents per kWh that residents pay in “green energy” states like Connecticut, New York and California.

Families, hospitals, schools, businesses, farms and factories would face increasingly tougher times paying their electric bills. Poor and minority families would be hit hardest."

~ Paul Driessen