More questions need answers and need the light of day before Gordon County becomes the pawn of speculators. Gordon County needs to stop listening to contractors calling themselves consultants. We need to listen to those living with the consequences of their own advice.
Grant funds are not manna from heaven. Grant funds are our tax dollars not collected by Gordon County government. Sintinx did nothing for free. They invested time and ink in search of our dollars!
The claim of tourist attraction is hype. A person wanting to see a solar panel can simply walk into the local Tractor Supply store and go to the electric fence department. Today solar panels are economical only when we need a small wattage in a remote location where the cost of wire and poles would be too much. NGEMC and TVA will pay a premium for small quantities of solar power in order to encourage improvement in the technology for the day when it might become economical or mandated. Any production beyond one megawatt would earn a price equal to the cost power produced by a coal fired plant.
Whose payday will drop first, Sintinx or Gordon County?
Sintinx and Dowling misuse the word profit in the proposal for the solar farm. The correct word is hidden tax. Money that shows up in Gordon County’s bank account that is more than off-set by an increase in a citizen’s electric bill is hidden tax, not profit.
Electric power for our homes is not stored. It must be generated as it is used. Solar power is generated only when the sun shines. My house needs the most heat when it dark outside. When a power company buys solar power in the daytime, it must pay for another source to be on standby. The customer ends up paying for two sets of equipment to do one job. On sunny days we may cut pollution by riding bicycles, but this does reduce the car payment.
A new factory is being constructed in Clinton, Tenn., that plans to make solar panels more efficient. When this next generation of solar panels comes on line the premium paid by NGEMC will decrease,because this artificial price is based on cost of production, not its market-place value.
Power companies stay quiet on politics, as they try to serve us all. It would, however ,be good to hear from Ed Worley, our local elected representative to the board of NGEMC.
Richard Acree
Calhoun
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