re: $440 million solar farm in Calcasieu Parish shot down

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What are your concerns? BX requires remediation funds and so does every tax equity financier in the market. The leaching and lack of return to greenfield funds is an outdated talking point that hasn't been relevant for any systems constructed recently. It's also good to remember these have 35 year useful lifes.

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When the solar companies claim force majeure or file for bankruptcy, the owner and community is stuck with the mess. The parish has to step in to help clean it up. Read about what’s going on with Ormet Burnside and the red bauxite that was left behind in Darrow when the company went belly up.

Remember these panels are Chinese made with lead and cadmium which will leach out over time. Just this year, large solar farms in Texas were obliterated by hail storms. EPA has also classified panels as HAZ waste once they need to be disposed of.

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When the solar companies claim force majeure or file for bankruptcy, the owner and community is stuck with the mess. The parish has to step in to help clean it up.

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Force majeure hits and you make an insurance claim and fix it. The companies that own these asset aren't playing in the minor leagues. These are owned by big banks (JPM, BoA, BX, etc.) The companies that are at risk are the servicers and thats why they have back up servicers in a warm position to take over.

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Read about what’s going on with Ormet Burnside and the red bauxite that was left behind in Darrow when the company went belly up.

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I googled it and can't find anything.

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Remember these panels are Chinese made with lead and cadmium which will leach out over time. Just this year, large solar farms in Texas were obliterated by hail storms. EPA has also classified panels as HAZ waste once they need to be disposed of.

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Chinese modules are losing favorability and the market is shifting to domestically made modules. Regardless, any recent system would have proper UL rating for a tier 1 rating, which is the only things thats currently financeable. The issue with hazardous materials is only an issue on broken modules modules or those being disposed of, which either gets taken care of when they replace because of physical damage or decommission the asset in 35 years, if they even decide to decom.

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Solar blows arse. The energy density sucks and converting mass acerage into solar fields is stupid.

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This type of NIMBYism for solar is the same reason you’ll never see new nuclear reactors. Enjoy it

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We know solar is your money bag so I'd expect nothing else, but gtfoutta here.

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I do zero utility solar. I have done quite a few nuke projects and you NIMBY dick bags are the problem. I’m happy to watch lousianastan continue to devolve into a third world country though so have fun.

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Stfu

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I’ll happily sit here and point out people who have zero fricking clue what they’re talking about. Like you. You can stfu.

Look I’m all for nuclear and all for solar on buildings, but big farms of solar and wind…frick off.

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Look I’m all for nuclear and all for solar on buildings, but big farms of solar and wind…frick off.

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I here ya but these are life changing $ opportunities for the land owners should a project happen to fall on your land.

I don’t give a frick…solar sucks. Building it in a hurricane prone area is dumb af and the neighbors absolutely have a reason to say not in my back yard

Real easy for SFP to talk shite about it when he is 40+, doesn’t have a family and is pretty much transient. He can leave at any time

Real easy for other douchebags to preach solar while living in houston, but I can tell you if you tried to go out this next to the woodlands or Katy or pearland or up in the north Dallas suburbs like south lake Carrol….those people would pitch a fricking fit too


And again, this and other projects with solar are dogshit compared to lng.

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Because it’s ugly as shite

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Meh, I’m not worried about what people think my land looks like. They can look at their own if they want. Land owners owe no duty to the public for gazing.

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environmental hazard

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Nope,I’ve said it before modern modules don’t have leaching issues

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produces dog shite for the space it takes up

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Legit concern. It does take up a lot of acres per MW. But that’s really ignoring what it does well and nitpicking its biggest drawback.

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We have had a strong cat 3, a cat 2 and a cat 5 all in the last two decades. Do you think it’s a good idea to have a solar farm ~100 miles inland?

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That’s between the owner and their insurance company.

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They also are not environmentally friendly at all, quite the fricking opposite, especially on a world wide scale

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You really don’t think a solid state power producer that needs zero fuel and has a 35 year useful life isn’t environmentally beneficial? Seriously?

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You have no clue wtf you are talking about with sweet Lakeland and oil

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No shite he doesn't. They are a nearly 100 year old company and huge. Not some rinky dink family LLC set up for a single tract of land. They couldn't care less about ruining home values of residents in Gillis to make some money leasing out that land.