09-16-2016, 03:18 AM
From the fine article:
technically, we now have 26 FIT projects aggregated to a utility scale project of 6.5 megawatts seemingly under the same parent company,
In other words, breaking the project into enough pieces that each piece individually qualifies for specific tarriff treatment which would not otherwise be available to the entire project.
It's somewhat like making lots of small cash deposits at the bank so as to avoid the extra reporting requirements for a $10K cash transaction.
In any case ... the bigger problem with this entire project (again) is that it's effectively "structuring" the installation to shoehorn an "industrial" use into a "residential" area -- but because the lots are zoned "agricultural", both uses are allowed -- and it's worked out so well for PGV, let's keep doing it.
How would the residents of HPP feel if someone covered 52 lots with solar panels, and scattered them around the subdivision so that they were all next to someone's house?
Maybe the next Mayor will find time to address the "faux residential" problem...
technically, we now have 26 FIT projects aggregated to a utility scale project of 6.5 megawatts seemingly under the same parent company,
In other words, breaking the project into enough pieces that each piece individually qualifies for specific tarriff treatment which would not otherwise be available to the entire project.
It's somewhat like making lots of small cash deposits at the bank so as to avoid the extra reporting requirements for a $10K cash transaction.
In any case ... the bigger problem with this entire project (again) is that it's effectively "structuring" the installation to shoehorn an "industrial" use into a "residential" area -- but because the lots are zoned "agricultural", both uses are allowed -- and it's worked out so well for PGV, let's keep doing it.
How would the residents of HPP feel if someone covered 52 lots with solar panels, and scattered them around the subdivision so that they were all next to someone's house?
Maybe the next Mayor will find time to address the "faux residential" problem...