Solar farms to lose UK government financial support

The Guardian UK ^ | May 13, 2014 | by Fiona Harvey

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The government is to make drastic changes to its financial support for solar energy farms, in a move condemned by green activists and renewable power companies as likely to reduce the UK's ability to generate low-carbon power and green jobs.

The move is being seen as another victory for the Conservative party, many of whom are opposed to what the prime minister has been alleged to call "green crap", such as renewable energy measures that add to consumer bills.

[Maverick68]

Hey, gotta find a way to pay the welfare bennies for the flood of immigrants destroying the UK...

[BitWielder1]

It rains too much in Britain anyway, solar will never be cost effective there.

[Paine in the Neck]

British landscape to be plagued by abandoned, broken-down, decrepit, bankrupt windmills.

[cuban leaf]

British landscape to be plagued by abandoned, broken-down, decrepit, bankrupt windmills.

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On the southern tip of the big island of Hawaii there is just such a place. A bunch of totally rusted out huge windmills just sit there.

[trisham]

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision
of what is before them, glory and danger alike,
and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."

~Thucydides

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[Cementjungle]

I saw that solar farm last week while flying from FL to Los Angeles. It's somewhere around the border of CA/AZ/NV.

The three bright lights that thing produces, even in the middle of the day, are amazingly bright. I can see why pilots have been complaining about it. It's a hazard.

[cuban leaf]

Here they are:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=hawaii&hl=en&ll=18.98954,-155.665171&spn=0.000649,0.308647&sll=37.6,-95.665&sspn=55.236004,79.013672&hnear=Hawaii&t=h&z=12&layer=c&cbll=18.98954,-155.665171&panoid=cnIknnGJsElUMUvOc88K4w&cbp=12,311.85,,0,6.41

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It’s on I-15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

[Winniesboy]

It rains too much in Britain anyway, solar will never be cost effective there.

Less rain and a lot more sun than the persistent myth to the contrary would have you believe. Here in the south-west of England I get excellent value from the solar array on my roof - big drop in energy bills, and a good rate for what I feed back into the grid.

A few parts of the north-west aside, rainfall in Britain is nothing exceptional. Here it's about 35 inches a year. In London it's only 23 inches - a lot less than New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Houston and many other US cities.