tcward
Senior Member
This^^^Waste of arable land and A LOT of it!
This^^^Waste of arable land and A LOT of it!
Exactly. It’s a cycle. 20 year lifespan. Terrible use of the land. Only reason is they are getting paid. As demand and energy supply changes it will fade. Makes much more sense out west in UT AZ etx. Here the land is too valuable.This^^^
truthSort of off subject, but anyone who thinks that land can be divided up amongst siblings and still all stay in the family for more generations is delusional...
Was the location of that one why it was disapproved ?Heard County just turned an ~800 acre one down. I was a no vote on the Zoning Board for various reasons. It was a very interesting conversation with citizens. Many who are hard core, don't want a thing built, actually were supportive of this. It would have been very good money to the county over the lifespan, especially with us having Plant Wansley shuttered. That alone makes it easy to see why many counties are all for them.
That would make too much sense…What we should be doing if we're going to go with these solar farms is to put them OVER the parking lots to shade them like a few places have done. That way we're not wasting good farmland and we're shading asphalt which contributes to higher temperatures in cities. Personally, I'm for home solar but if we're going to go with solar farms, we ought to do it a better way like I mentioned.
Put them on already developed land and I’ll support it. Old malls, old Walmarts, etcHeard County just turned an ~800 acre one down. I was a no vote on the Zoning Board for various reasons. It was a very interesting conversation with citizens. Many who are hard core, don't want a thing built, actually were supportive of this. It would have been very good money to the county over the lifespan, especially with us having Plant Wansley shuttered. That alone makes it easy to see why many counties are all for them.
I agree with the recyclable part. Just because something is “recyclable” doesn’t mean it gets or is worth recycling.Dont care for them but I was in a meeting back in October last year with a customer where a 250K kW system was proposed (that is big).
I cant speak for the ground based panels that are eating up farm and hunting land, but the proposal I saw was for roof mounted and parking lot (the parking lot design is 40% more cost than roof designs). they had some cool SW that showed elevation change of the roofing system and accounted for shade produced but the elevation changes.
For the entire system, it was $300K, 25 year warranty and less $180K in tax breaks and incentives. Year one depreciation was 60% for 2023 but not sure what that means this year.
For maintenance, it was presented as almost maintenance free (wash them off with a hose twice per year). The only cost that I could see was a year 15 inverter replacement and for a system this large, the cost was projected to be $25K. Supposedly 99% recyclable. Dont believe that for a second. The wind and hail rating was 2" and 65mph winds.
From what I can gather, the tax incentives (for this design) was unbelievably large. there are federal, state and local incentives that were just insane.
My conclusion is the reason for the rise in solar panel farms are for nothing but the tax breaks. No more and no less and they are very very generous.
yep, theres nothing you could grow other than pot to make the kind of money the solar folks are offering.....We had an outfit reach out to us about putting a solar “farm” on our place in GA. We do some timber production and lease some to a local dairy for grazing pasture now but we do it in a way that keeps habitat as a priority. I can tell you with what they offered us per acre, if a landowner is just unit for $ it will be going solar. I’d say there is a good chance we will be seeing a lot more of it.
Mine and your tax dollars (assuming you pay taxes) are funding this craze and probably helping in keeping inflation high.We had an outfit reach out to us about putting a solar “farm” on our place in GA. We do some timber production and lease some to a local dairy for grazing pasture now but we do it in a way that keeps habitat as a priority. I can tell you with what they offered us per acre, if a landowner is just unit for $ it will be going solar. I’d say there is a good chance we will be seeing a lot more of it.