[grundle]

If they build another 999 of these sized solar projects, they could then shut down one coal plant, but only during the daytime, and even then, only when there are no clouds. They'd still need a backup power source for when the sun isn't available, and that backup would almost certainly be some type of fossil fuel.

[Army Air Corps]

One point six megawatts? That’s it?

[Nifster]

The lefties posing as greenies are not concerned with facts. All they care about is government control

[Ray76]

Those panels are not even directed toward the sun.

[publius911]

Long on hype, and embarrassingly short on useful facts.
How much did the installation cost total?
Including taxpayer subsidies, grants and interest costs.

How much power is actually delivered?
Not just the nominal "capacity. Actual delivered power?
What are the maintenance costs to the users?
Does the rates paid for the power reflect actual cost of generation and delivery?

So many claims, so much BS.
And so little facts.

[Ray76]

Consolidate Edison - Con Ed - serves NYC and area. Over 20,000,000 megawatt hours are delivered to residential and commercial customers. http://www.coned.com/documents/facts-2012.pdf

1.6 / 20,000,000 = 0.000008%

This is a drop in the ocean.

[kvanbrunt2]

I’ll use about 720K to get my maters up and running. course that is over a 60 day period.

[Mariner]

Sheesh, if one is going to try Solar they should try in the interior southwest, not NYC.

Retards.

[FreedomPoster]

I worked at a *real* power plant ages ago as a coop student, GA Power’s Plant Bowen.

1.6 MW was probably about the size of the on site auxiliary combustion turbines for start up power in case a massive outage knocked everything off line. If other words, 1.6 MW is enough power to start a real powerplant.

[Nuc 1.1]

Gonna drive the state to her twilight then night, not dawn.

[logitech]

But it said “mega”.

That is a lot? Right?

[Doomonyou]

of course they will be covered with snow for months as well.

[Ray76]

photo of installation

http://tdworld.com/renewables/con-edison-customer-installs-nycs-largest-solar-array

write up by equipment supplier (photo not NY, but SF)

http://newsroom.sunpower.com/2013-12-09-Ross-Solar-Group-Completes-New-York-Citys-Largest-Rooftop-Solar-Power-System

[stylin19a]

took forever to find it

The $50 million construction project was facilitated by up to $21 million in tax incentives approved by the New York City IDA. The tax incentives helped create and retain nearly 200 jobs which might otherwise have been relocated to a lower cost location in New Jersey.

Jetro Cash & Carry will "save" about $200,000 a year in electric costs.....what a great flippin deal. Break-even takes place after the world ends.

[norwaypinesavage]

Here in south Texas, where the sun actually shines a bit, a typical “sustainable” solar house might have about 36 kilowatts of solar panels. The NY panels bragged about in this article would thus be the same as about 44 houses. These “sustainable” houses, though, are anything BUT sustainable. They use the grid as a large storage battery, selling the power to the grid (at subsidized rates) the few times they supply more than they use, and buying from the grid the rest of the time. The “rest of the time” happens to be “most of the time”. All of the rest of the time, it’s that dirty coal and oil that keep the lights on.