One local example:
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November 13, 2017, Potsdam NY
St. Lawrence County Ag and Farmland Protection Board including discussion of leases.
companion document:
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Solar project noise is real, emanating from inverters and HVAC systems.
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Learn why the newly proposed NY noise levels and setbacks are not appropriate for our towns, and how they will restrict your property rights in favor of an industrial energy plant. Read and share this crucial information every NY town & citizen needs to know now.
3,000 to 4,000 panels
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RESULTING SOLAR ENERGY LAW
source: excerpt from ussolarinstitute.com/glossary
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to build
source: NYSERDA
Solar project noise is real, emanating from inverters and HVAC systems.
Canton-Solar-Farm-Site-Plan, source: North Country Now
INDUSTRIALIZED SOLAR
Large scale solar is an invasive industry unwilling to pay taxes. Much like large-scale industrial wind projects in New York State, industrialized solar projects pose some of the same concerns for small rural communities including, but not limited to, the erosion of home rule, loss of the area's rural character, subsidizing projects with your hard earned wages paid as taxes, electric ratepayer mandates and PILOTs, and jeopardizing large swaths of fertile agricultural land... solar energy “farms” are not agriculture.
Industrial scale solar equipment containing hazardous materials will soon be sited close to your NY home, according to new proposed regulations.
Your community should consider that solar project noise is created from inverters and HVAC systems, panels are known to break free from mounts and crack in heavy storms, containment areas are known to flood, battery storage can explode & catch fire, and you should know that on average these projects are only expected to produce less than 19% of their nameplate capacity.
articles
June 21, 2021
Why Everything They Said About Solar Was Wrong
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com
June 8, 2021
Built solar assets are ‘chronically underperforming’ and modules degrading faster than expected, research finds
https://www.pv-tech.org
May 19, 2021
China Made Solar Cheap With Coal, Subsidies, And “Slave” Labor — Not Efficiency
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com
May 18 2021
Is solar manufacturing a highly automated business? Forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
https://www.ft.com
May 12, 2021
Solar “soiling”: energy loss from dust on panels can range from 7% to 50%
https://energypost.eu
March 23, 2021
Niagara County: Godfrey proposes solar panel recycling law
https://www.wnypapers.com/news
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT Uyghur Forced Labour and Global Solar Supply Chains
British report:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com
February 9, 2021
Solar Makes No Sense, But It Makes Money
https://www.post-journal.com/opinion
September 30, 2020
URI researcher: Housing prices decline within mile of solar energy arrays
August 15, 2020
Solar panels are starting to die. What will we do with the megatons of toxic trash?
Why it’s so hard for the solar industry to quit Xinjiang. Chinese solar companies are among 175 around the world that signed a nonbinding pledge by a U.S. trade group to avoid forced labor. It will be much harder for them to actually cut ties with Xinjiang, the western China region facing increasing scrutiny for human rights abuses.
November 15, 2020
St. Lawrence County Planning Board denies Canton solar project
December 27, 2020
Why Is Solar Energy Getting 250 Times More In Federal Tax Credits Than Nuclear?
February 15, 2019
Worse than Amazon: Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion just went bust (solar panel plant)
https://nypost.com
December 19, 2018
The ‘100 Percent Renewable Energy’ Claim
https://www.theepochtimes.com
January 13, 2018
NYSERDA official: solar projects won’t work with heavy taxation
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com
September 25, 2014
Solar Panels Create Noise Nuisance in Edgartown
https://vineyardgazette.com/news
August 27, 2014
Solar Farms Threaten Birds - Certain avian species seem to crash into large solar power arrays or get burned by the concentrated rays
https://www.scientificamerican.com
November 15, 2020
St. Lawrence County Planning Board denies Canton solar project
https://www.nny360.com/news
January 9, 2021
Canton solar farm project goes to developers for site plan review.
videos
July 30, 2021
Fire breaks out at Tesla Big Battery; toxic smoke warning issued
https://www.theage.com.au
July 2, 2021
Morris industrial fire evacuation indefinite, 'in check' after use of cement, officials say
https://abc7chicago.com
June 30, 2021
Morris mayor says officials were unaware battery business was operating in building that’s still on fire. Thousands remain evacuated.
https://www.chicagotribune.com
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January 22, 2021
Battery storage is not what you think
The challenge of dealing with intermittent power generators
February 5th, 2021
Virginia will pay trillions for renewable power. ...the astronomical cost of batteries to supply power
January 29, 2020
Climate-Friendly Battery Boom Presents Growing Fire Safety Challenge
https://www.insurancejournal.com
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Information Alert
capacity factor
will cost
understanding scale
The net capacity factor of a power plant is the ratio of its actual output over a period of time, to its potential output if it were possible for it to operate at full nameplate capacity continuously over the same period of time. To calculate the capacity factor, take the total amount of energy the plant produced during a period of time and divide by the amount of energy the plant would have produced at full capacity. Capacity factors vary greatly depending on the type of fuel that is used and the design of the plant. The capacity factor should not be confused with the availability factor, capacity credit (firm capacity) or with efficiency.
One reason for reduced capacity factor is that a plant may not have the fuel available to operate all of the time.
When the sun isn’t shining, solar PV cannot produce electricity. When the wind is not blowing, wind turbines cannot produce electricity. Solar PV and wind turbines have a capacity factor limited by the availability of their “fuel”, sunshine and wind respectively.
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EXAMPLE OF COMMUNITY SCALE SOLAR
"Panels rippled like waves in the wind", solar farm damaged in Currituck County, NC
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canton, ny
battery storage
Urge your local government to adopt a Moratorium on wind and solar development to allow them time to research and create laws that will protect you from many negative health, environmental, and economic impacts.
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New York State solar project performance data. View real-world data from over 1,200 live DER projects in New York State. https://der.nyserda.ny.gov/data/performance/
potsdam, ny
Malone, NY
EXAMPLE OF COMMUNITY SCALE SOLAR
Next generation industrial wind and solar facilities have battery storage. Hawaiian wind energy plant battery storage fire
AN EXAMPLE OF INDUSTRIALIZED SOLAR
Franklin Solar, an example of an industrial solar project which is subject to NY's Article 10 law. The following documents were submitted by F.A.R.M., a citizens group in northern New York, to the DPS for Case No. 17-F-0602, the proposed 950 acre solar electric generating facility in Malone, NY by developer Geronimo Energy.
Know and understand the ramifications of such projects to help educate yourself, family, friends and neighbors, and to protect your town:
- Statement, from the Franklin County Agricultural & Farmland Protection Board.
- Effects on the Adirondack Trail Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan.
-Ramifications to highly productive soils and farms.
- Understanding soil, and why re-purposing prime agricultural farmland for solar energy is not wise. Also heat, ecological traps & polarized light pollution (PLP).
-Industrial equipment and noise.
- PV panel glare and solar glare hazard.
- Decommissioning the solar panels, lots of them, at the end of the project... hazardous waste?
articles
January 8, 2018
Malone town officials set forum on proposed solar farm process
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com
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What you need to know about Industrial Wind Farms
Northern NY Wind
Mark Richardson, C.E.O. from U.S. Light Energy, "... the company’s first obligation in the process is to work with the planning board on the site plan, not neighboring property owners."
Town of Malone Solar Energy Law - August 18, 2018
PROTECT YOUR TOWN :
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LARGE-SCALE SOLAR
January 24, 2018
Malone Town Board meeting with Article 10 presentation
MORE LOCAL EXAMPLES OF INDUSTRIALIZED SOLAR
December 5, 2021
Proposed solar project draws concerns from Department of Environmental Conservation
https://www.newsbreak.com/news
Bellmont, NY
Canton, NY
Massena, NY
Fall 2017
Malone Town Board meeting
Protect your Property Rights
Read and share this crucial information every NY town & citizen needs to know now.
March 29, 2019
Physics Reveals ‘Green’ Energy Sources Are Unrealistic And Unsustainable: “You have to recognize what Mother Nature, the physics, permits and doesn’t permit."
Another Argument For Full Taxes,
Farmers and solar development
Solar energy “farms” are not agriculture.
• Once a solar lease is signed, that property owner is no longer a farmer, they are now a landlord and their new tenant is an electric generating plant.
• Farmers are hardworking people that produce our food and we have all supported them. The proof… We all make up the property tax deficiency made by area farmers for them to take advantage of their Ag property tax exemption.
• No one is objecting to anyones lucrative land lease deal, but the tax payers of the town should not be asked to subsidize a commercial solar energy plant by allowing a PILOT or any other property tax discount for the landlords or their tenant, the developer. They must be required to pay full property taxes on their assessment, just like other businesses and property owners.
• Allowing a property owner to do what they want with their property is different from a developer doing what they want with the leased property.
An industrial energy lease (along with so called good neighbor agreements) gives the solar or wind developer control of the property and excludes the property owner from any say in the developer’s planned use. Grouped together, these leases allow a corporation, not individual property owners, to control a very large tract of land in our towns. Your new small town neighbor will now be a large corporate tenant operating an industrial power plant. If you have any problems with your new corporate neighbor you will now be required to telephone a 1-800 complaint hot line located elsewhere to speak to someone you do not know.
• Large scale solar is an invasive industry unwilling to pay taxes. It dooms our communities to permanent ineligibility for more appealing economic development possibilities through the use of liberal setbacks and noise regulations restricting ALL OTHER property owners land use, not the developers.
Solar
local example: produces 13.2% of nameplate capacity
Negotiating a PILOT ?
For example on solar, a NYSERDA document states: "NYSERDA's research indicates that PILOT rates should be negotiable between 1% and 3% of the compensation solar developers receive for the electricity their projects generate." But, on average solar projects in New York are only expected to produce less than 19% of their promised “nameplate capacity”.
Translation: If you negotiate a portion of production/energy generation as payment, you will receive 1-3% of 19% as noted above (capacity factor) not 1-3% of 100% which is promised (nameplate capacity).
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