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Finishline42

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6. Some other ideas
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 07:11 AM
Sep 2021

Incentivize donations for solar at non-profits (they are currently at a 28% disadvantage) - utilities are nothing but overhead for them.

Big push for community solar - many reasons for this

- your roof doesn't face South and doesn't have the optimum pitch

- People who haven't put down roots - the credits should follow them where-ever they go

- apt dwellers, people that live in places w deed restrictions

It would allow people to buy increments over time. A solar farm should be cheaper as it would reduce labor costs (but land costs would be more).

The more solar we buy the better and cheaper it gets. Solar takes a long time to break even on the cost but quality panels have great warranties - 80% output after 25 years.

edited to add - new solar is cheaper that the operational costs of coal or nuclear (maybe even gas plants too now that gas has gone above $5).


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