For comparison, Field researched the property tax for the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township along Lake Michigan. He found that the annual real and personal property taxes for Palisades are just over $12 million or .2 cents per kilowatt hour.
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Field said he considers Michigan’s system to be “schizophrenic” in the sense that it places a tax burden on renewable energy while at the same time the state has a renewable portfolio standard law to encourage renewable energy. He contends that all sources of producing energy should have the same per kilowatt hour tax rate.
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h/t to Mike Lorrey
Only 45c per kwhr? UK pays about 45p ie 70c per KwHr. Or, rather, UK consumers do, via cleverly hidden subsidy arrangements that require those retailing ‘leccy to buy increasing quantities of “renewable” energy and pay the ridiculous price. As a “wholesale” price it just goes into the Retailer’s cost base and the consumer just sees a higher average price per unit.
Must confess that for non domestic solar PV installations the Feed in tariff rate has just been reduced ‘cos becoming too expensive I think – and in our cloudy land, solar PV not much use anyway… especially in the winter….candles anyone?
klem says:
May 18, 2011 at 7:08 am
“The trouble with solar on residential roofs is …”
They don’t have to be on the roof.
What’s the point of even having a small scale Solar plant, which can supposedly support 20 home? (It dosn’t because homes use power at night as well.) This solar plant doesn’t displace any convetional (i.e. good) power generation. This whole deal is just a hustle by the investors to cash in on the stupid subsidies that are being handed out courtesy of the Tax payer.