-- but why they heck would someone not
want solar power plants nearby?
Not exact matches
Businesses in tangential industries may also
want to consider retraining their own workers — electric utilities, for example, can retrain their coal - fired
power plant workers for positions involving utility - scale
solar farms.
New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed expanding the Long Island Pine Barrens by 800 acres around the decommissioned Shoreham nuclear
power plant, but did not include saving a site in Mastic where a developer
wants to build a
solar farm.
Wind,
solar, hydro, and geothermal make me feel warm and fuzzy and
want to sign Kumbaya but they are not reliable enough, nor in sufficient quantities to eliminate the need for coal / oil / gas fired
power plants.
Solar, wind, biomass and hydroelectric
power producers
want Congress to provide cash payments in lieu of tax credits now available for building renewable energy
power plants or producing cleaner energy (see Industry Groups Call for Changes to Federal Incentives).
The auction system has been imposed on the public by ideologues who
want to replace fossil fuel, and possibly nuclear,
power plants with renewables, such as wind and
solar.
Remember, you can build all the capacity you
want, but in an integrated grid that new gas
power plant is competing with wind,
solar, hydropower and other renewables.