Reply to post: Re: Sloppy

Renewables are cheaper than coal in all but one US location

Jellied Eel Silver badge

Re: Sloppy

I didn't see anything.

The only bits that are really relevant are IRA's offering $600bn in subsidies, and the paper's sponsors want a fat slab of that, plus the ongoing subsidies, tax breaks and other incentives. What they won't want are any liabilities, like decommisioning costs. Or compensating for deaths/serious injuries when massive battery farms catch fire and spew out flourine compounds, heavy metals and masses of pollutants. The general idea though is to make bank consulting/designing/building these turkeys, carving out revenue/subsidy streams into SPVs that can be flogged off, and leave the liabilities for some other sucker to deal with. Often that's the land owner, or if these are built on public/federal land, it'll be the taxpayers.

It's perhaps not unsprising that double glazing sales folks dived into the 'renewables' sector.

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