The 2 percent franchise fee on solar projects proposed by Riverside County Supervisor John Benoit is a dark cloud over a great development in our desert.
Benoit told The Desert Sun editorial board the fee on gross revenues is needed to accommodate the impact of 185 square miles of solar farms that are planned in Riverside County, mostly in his 4th District.
However,This page list rubber hose products with details & specifications. The Desert Sun is not convinced the impact justifies such a sweeping change for solar projects that are so close to final approval. The proposed fee comes too late for projects that have been on a fast-track approval process since December 2009.
The projects are in remote areas, many so distant they can't been seen from the freeway. There may be an impact in case of a wildfire, but that has already been addressed. We don't see much else.
Bad timing
Ironically, Benoit's pitched the idea just two days before Gov. Jerry Brown and U.Our Polymax RUBBER SHEET range includes all commercial and specialistS. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar came to Blythe to dedicate the largest solar energy project in the world.
Even more urgently came a meeting request from two solar firms in town for the ceremony and leaders of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership.Customized imprinted and promotional usb flash drives. CVEP has sent a letter to the supervisors opposing the fee. Supervisors are scheduled to consider the fee on Tuesday.
Representatives of First Solar, which plans its 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight project on nearly 4,Save on hydraulic hose and fittings,000 acres near Desert Center, said the fee would cost the company $3.4 million a year. Similar projects in Los Angeles and Kern counties, with negotiated impact fees of $3 a square foot, will cost about $91,000 a year.
The franchise fee would cost First Solar more than $100 million over the life of the project, which could put its financing in doubt. Those details need to be worked out before a September deadline on federal Department of Energy loan guarantees.This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game.
More revenue and jobs
A CVEP-sponsored study said Desert Sunlight ¡ª just one of the four fast-tracked projects ¡ª would generate $24 million to $29 million revenue for the county.
It would generate $200 million in wages during the 26-month construction process.
The county would be wrong to give solar companies a reason to go to other counties and states that don't have this requirement.
Benoit says the Coachella Valley has the brightest sunshine in the world, but the sun also shines brightly in Nevada, Arizona, other areas of California and elsewhere.
Our Democratic governor declared, "We're going be the world leader in solar energy."
Benoit is now in a nonpartisan office, but he served as a Republican for seven years in the California Legislature as a strong opponent of unjustifiable taxes.
He is the last person we would expect to promote a fee that could derail the campaign to make the Coachella Valley the vortex of renewable energy.
Benoit told The Desert Sun editorial board the fee on gross revenues is needed to accommodate the impact of 185 square miles of solar farms that are planned in Riverside County, mostly in his 4th District.
However,This page list rubber hose products with details & specifications. The Desert Sun is not convinced the impact justifies such a sweeping change for solar projects that are so close to final approval. The proposed fee comes too late for projects that have been on a fast-track approval process since December 2009.
The projects are in remote areas, many so distant they can't been seen from the freeway. There may be an impact in case of a wildfire, but that has already been addressed. We don't see much else.
Bad timing
Ironically, Benoit's pitched the idea just two days before Gov. Jerry Brown and U.Our Polymax RUBBER SHEET range includes all commercial and specialistS. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar came to Blythe to dedicate the largest solar energy project in the world.
Even more urgently came a meeting request from two solar firms in town for the ceremony and leaders of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership.Customized imprinted and promotional usb flash drives. CVEP has sent a letter to the supervisors opposing the fee. Supervisors are scheduled to consider the fee on Tuesday.
Representatives of First Solar, which plans its 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight project on nearly 4,Save on hydraulic hose and fittings,000 acres near Desert Center, said the fee would cost the company $3.4 million a year. Similar projects in Los Angeles and Kern counties, with negotiated impact fees of $3 a square foot, will cost about $91,000 a year.
The franchise fee would cost First Solar more than $100 million over the life of the project, which could put its financing in doubt. Those details need to be worked out before a September deadline on federal Department of Energy loan guarantees.This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game.
More revenue and jobs
A CVEP-sponsored study said Desert Sunlight ¡ª just one of the four fast-tracked projects ¡ª would generate $24 million to $29 million revenue for the county.
It would generate $200 million in wages during the 26-month construction process.
The county would be wrong to give solar companies a reason to go to other counties and states that don't have this requirement.
Benoit says the Coachella Valley has the brightest sunshine in the world, but the sun also shines brightly in Nevada, Arizona, other areas of California and elsewhere.
Our Democratic governor declared, "We're going be the world leader in solar energy."
Benoit is now in a nonpartisan office, but he served as a Republican for seven years in the California Legislature as a strong opponent of unjustifiable taxes.
He is the last person we would expect to promote a fee that could derail the campaign to make the Coachella Valley the vortex of renewable energy.
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