Reply to Mayor Bowser's Threat to Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs)

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not seeing the problem here. Solar paneled people needed to think about the long term and understand there was no way the US or DC was going to be able to implement this long term. We just don't have the infrastructure and moreover, there is a looming recession so logically the city's needs come before a few dozen people. [/quote]

Huh?  People made very substantial long term investments, the economics of which only work because of these credits. [b] Credits which do not cost the City or its taxpayers anything.  [/b]

If the proposal was to eliminate the solar % mandate then you might have a point.  But that is not the proposal.  All the indirect costs of the locally produced energy mandate remain.  She's just screwing over the people that relied on the law.[/quote]

They cost the ratepayers who can't afford / get solar. [/quote]

Yes and no.  The law mandating a percentage of local/renewable supply does indeed increase costs.  However that requirement isn't being taken away and the credits make that compliance cost cheaper.[/quote]
Cheaper as opposed to building your own PV solar plant? The whole point of the law was to create a cross subsidy mechanism for ratepayers to subsidize home rooftop solar installations. RE mandates are no longer needed because solar is now so cheap there is no need to provide government subsidies.[/quote]

Production and distribution are two separate markets.  The mandate applies to distribution not production.  This manuever also negatively impacts large scale producers.[/quote]
[b]You were enjoying unearned economic rent.[/quote][/b]

Everyone benefits from increased solar use: reduced emissions, increasing demand to lower solar panel prices, and showing political support exists for green energy.

The people who bought solar panels took on a financial liability to help everyone.  Many, like me, relied on SRECs to help off set the cost.

You have a narrow-minded mayor raiding a green energy fund while adding fluff elsewhere in the budget.  [/quote]
You are claiming that your economic rent was providing broader societal value. Maybe true, maybe not. But still economic rent nonetheless.

Also, your panel purchases did not lower consumer prices. I am sorry that you think this is true. A larger impact on panel assembly prices would be Chinese slave labor.[/quote]

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