Update on Solar Tax Credit

[analog8484]

I should clarify that I was thinking about the installed base of PV modules in the US. It's true that in the last few years many Chinese companies have moved module assembly to countries outside of China including the US to avoid tariffs. So, the modules may not technically be made in China anymore but I still think of them as such because the cells are still from China.

 

[ggunn]

I should clarify that I was thinking about the installed base of PV modules in the US. It's true that in the last few years many Chinese companies have moved module assembly to countries outside of China including the US to avoid tariffs. So, the modules may not technically be made in China anymore but I still think of them as such because the cells are still from China.

And as I said, I don't believe that where the modules and inverters are coming from has much if anything at all to do with the impetus to repeal the Renewable Energy ITC.

 

[analog8484]

And as I said, I don't believe that where the modules and inverters are coming from has much if anything at all to do with the impetus to repeal the Renewable Energy ITC.

Totally agree. It's more about prevention of cancer from wind turbines

 

[gadfly56]

But <gasp> that's SOCIALISM!

In the first place, no, it isn't; look it up. In the second place, "society" and "socialism" come from the same root word; you cannot have a society without some vestiges of what some will attempt to denigrate as socialism.

Let's get it straight. Socialism is about who owns the means of production. If the government, then socialism. If private corporations, then capitalism. However, usually you are working on a spectrum. My electric provider is socialized, if you will. The town next door is the electricity provider for my home. All the infrastructure is owned by that town. But it's not quite that straightforward, since the costs are all funded through our bills, and as far as I know, no tax money goes to the operation. The town also doesn't own any of the generating facilities, they buy wholesale from PSEG.

And what about regulated monopolies, most famously, your POCO? Or, at least it used to be that way. Now it's a morass of interlocking and sometimes conflicting regulations.

 

[ggunn]

Let's get it straight. Socialism is about who owns the means of production. If the government, then socialism. If private corporations, then capitalism. However, usually you are working on a spectrum.

And that is precisely my point.

 

[gadfly56]

And that is precisely my point.

Your post didn't seem that clear to me. I don't know if that's you or me, however.

 

[ggunn]

Your post didn't seem that clear to me. I don't know if that's you or me, however.

My point is that we already live in a society that incorporates some vestiges of what some would call socialism, and that it's necessary in order to have a society at all.