Dear Northeast, How’s that solar working out for ya?

canadafreepress.com ^ | 11/24/2014 | Marita Noon

[rktman]

A couple of months ago, effective in November, National Grid, one of Massachusetts’ two dominant utilities, announced rate increases of a “whopping” 37 percent over last year. Other utilities in the region are expected to follow suit.

It’s dramatic headlines like these that make rooftop solar sound so attractive to people wanting to save money. In fact, embedded within the online version of the Boston Globe story: “Electric rates in Mass. set to spike this winter,” is a link to another article: “How to install solar power and save.” The solar story points out: “By now everyone knows that solar power can save homeowners big money on utility bills.” It claims that solar works even in New England’s dreary winters and cites Henry K. Vandermark, founder and president of Solar Wave Energy in Cambridge, as saying: “Even snow doesn’t matter if your panels have a steep angle. It just slides right off them.”

[rktman]

Here's what our chilly friends in the NE can expect when they get their energy bills this monty. Thanks Ms. Noon for another excellent piece.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/67830

[rktman]

Doh! Active linky thing:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/67830

[rktman]

WOW! 24.24 cents/kwh! Holy smokes. That ain’t cheap

[woodbutcher1963]

Maybe this will make some of these folks in Mass and NH rethink the two natural gas line proposals currently being talked about. This might have an effect on the NIMBY.

[kiryandil]

Don't worry. "Commie" Cuomo is going to stick it to the New York state taxpeasants to re-invent the NWS wheel, because of the Buffalo one-off "global warming" incident:

Gov. Cuomo critical of National Weather Service, says New York building its own forecasting system

I pity the NY peasants who can't leave, and spit on the other boobs who sit still for this kind of crap. The whole East Coast is mentally deficient.

[kiryandil]

WOW! 24.24 cents/kwh! Holy smokes. That ain’t cheap

Once The Owners figure out where Boobus Americanus can't or won't cut his consumption, they stick it where the sun don't shine.

I made a funny! LOL! :)

[Minsc]

I’ll hopefully be able to go solar by 2016. It’s going to be nasty here in MA for the foreseeable future.

[rktman]

Sure seems that way. All my ancestors settled in the Hudson Valley area a LONG, LONG time ago(mid 1600’s). Thankfully, my dad joined the Navy and we moved a lot. Helped give me a little wider view of where to finally land. And it sure wasn’t the NE. The Hudson Valley area is visually beautiful but what the heck happened to a part of the country that at one time stood for freedom?

[rktman]

LOL! Just make sure you follow the suggestion to slant your solar panels enough for the snow to just “slide off”.

[Obadiah]

Here is a summary of the article:

The hubris of liberals will lead to the misery and death of other liberals in New England this winter.

[hal ogen]

While I can “feel-for” those Conservatives who for some reason choose to live in the NE, the LIBs who are there deserve everything they get.

[ctdonath2]

It is, however, cheap enough to act as backup. When there are no kWh to be otherwise had at any price, $0.24/kWh is quite acceptable.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[blueunicorn6]

Sung to the tune of THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA.

“That’s the night that the lights went out in Massachusetts.
That’s the night when there was no sun.
Don’t trust your home heating to no liberal Democrat egghead.
When the Democrat Party’s got tax payer money in their hands.”

[Bucky14]

When will we hear about the “WIND FALL PROFITS” the power company is making off the backs of the poor? That power plant in Salem should have been converted to natural gas 20 years ago. Now its going to be solar panels and a windmill. Awesome. They will produce enough power in the winter to run the fan in the men’s room at McSwiggens Bar.

[rktman]

Well, maybe the powers that be in Venezuela will take some pity and send up some free fuel. Even if you-go chaffe-ez isn’t around any more. :>}

[kidd]

ISO-New England (The New England electric grid operator) has announced that it will be losing about 3300 MW of generation capacity by 2016. Between early shutdowns of several large coal power plants, including the Salem Harbor Coal and Oil Power Station, and the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, roughly 10% of ISO-NE’s reliable power generation capacity will stop operating during the next two years.

http://atomicinsights.com/power-new-england-prices-increasing-rapidly/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtomicInsights+%28Atomic+Insights%29

[rktman]

So I guess we need to give a shout out to PhD algore in this case. Certainly glad he brought all this glow-bull discombobulation to our attention. And these idiots still suck up to him. Watch the confusion when you ask about past glaciation and subsequent warming. Please explain. Crickets.

[wbill]

slant your solar panels enough for the snow to just “slide off”.

LOL! Great salesguy, there.

Yeah. Ice doesn't just "slide off". Ditto wind-driven snow. Or, just a heavy Frost.

I'm from Maine, and have a little exerience in such things. (/s) Or, if my word isn't good enough, they could just take a look at their car in the driveway on a wintry morning. :-)

[steve8714]

Then they are inefficient in the summer.