Boralex, the same Canadian renewable corporation behind Fort Edward Solar, this morning announced their plans for Foothills Solar on the Great Sacandaga Lake are on "hold" for now.
Alexandra, you are a one-woman army of Amazons! I have the greatest admiration for your dedication to this fight for the health and wellbeing of NY State wildlife, citizens, and wildernesses.
I smell a rat. Somehow I believe the cats at ORES are getting wined, dined, and their pockets lined.
I live outside Buffalo and the winter months were lucky to get 7 hours of usable sunlight. That fact and the fact that heavy cloud cover reduces the efficiency of the panels to 10 to 25 percent capacity. Last January we had 27 days of heavy cloud cover. Without insane battery storage and over capacity panels this boondoggle is a logistic nighmare!
BTW.....Back in the 70's I used to visit my uncle in Warrensburg NY up near Lake George. We would always go to Saratoga racetrack in August. Gorgeous area.
Data centers are being stopped and on hold as well. Thank you Alexandra for all of your hard work, research, public speaking skills, activism, investigative skills, top shelf journalism, new farming skills and sharing them, highly valued community member and your loving care. 💓
One could almost make the utilitarian "greatest good" for the most people argument for these projects if the output were measured in gigawatts or even terawatts. But, 40 MW? Really?
No doubt these projects look great on a powerpoint presentation, but in the real world? Thank you, Alexandra for exposing the emperor's new clothes.
(Out here in fly-over-country, it seems as though given NYC is the great energy hog, why not build one of these monstrosities in Central Park? Just askin' ...)
Way to stay the course! Your tenacity is showing the big guys, albeit tiny, the collective is MIGHTY! Keep swingin' for the fences... they are on the ropes.
Now is a good time to reintroduce the discussion of the wisdom to inject a DC electricity generation source into an AC grid, along with the transmission lines required. The better placement of solar is on a building providing service to the local building where no transmission lines are equipped and there is no requirement to tie into the public grid. But the zealots will want to destroy land (and sea) with the expensive electricity. Only with subsidies does it come close to not raising rates. But the users get charged so the developers make their money and run - flipping the eyesore to someone else to operate. The entire business model stinks. Just say no to wind and solar. Anybody wanting to build a data center should provide their own electricity and not use local water for cooling. Any of these fads that require subsidies are not good businesses.
¡Brava! Super proud of all your efforts!!
Alexandra, you are a one-woman army of Amazons! I have the greatest admiration for your dedication to this fight for the health and wellbeing of NY State wildlife, citizens, and wildernesses.
Thank you 🥺
I smell a rat. Somehow I believe the cats at ORES are getting wined, dined, and their pockets lined.
I live outside Buffalo and the winter months were lucky to get 7 hours of usable sunlight. That fact and the fact that heavy cloud cover reduces the efficiency of the panels to 10 to 25 percent capacity. Last January we had 27 days of heavy cloud cover. Without insane battery storage and over capacity panels this boondoggle is a logistic nighmare!
BTW.....Back in the 70's I used to visit my uncle in Warrensburg NY up near Lake George. We would always go to Saratoga racetrack in August. Gorgeous area.
Data centers are being stopped and on hold as well. Thank you Alexandra for all of your hard work, research, public speaking skills, activism, investigative skills, top shelf journalism, new farming skills and sharing them, highly valued community member and your loving care. 💓
Thank you 🙏
Great detective work 🤠
Prayer answered again. Great news.
Best news I’ve heard all day ;-)
You’re doing it Alexandra! Many of us are fighting in our communities too.
It just seems so abhorrent to want to put solar panels anywhere but on buildings and parking lots.
Nice. Good on you kid. Good on us all.
Great news.
Thank you Alexandra for your exceptional work!
One could almost make the utilitarian "greatest good" for the most people argument for these projects if the output were measured in gigawatts or even terawatts. But, 40 MW? Really?
No doubt these projects look great on a powerpoint presentation, but in the real world? Thank you, Alexandra for exposing the emperor's new clothes.
(Out here in fly-over-country, it seems as though given NYC is the great energy hog, why not build one of these monstrosities in Central Park? Just askin' ...)
Someone else in the same boat a NY… except they will lose their livelihood…
https://unwon.substack.com/p/arizona-rancher-casey-murph-fears?r=1pzmgt&utm_medium=ios
Way to stay the course! Your tenacity is showing the big guys, albeit tiny, the collective is MIGHTY! Keep swingin' for the fences... they are on the ropes.
Now is a good time to reintroduce the discussion of the wisdom to inject a DC electricity generation source into an AC grid, along with the transmission lines required. The better placement of solar is on a building providing service to the local building where no transmission lines are equipped and there is no requirement to tie into the public grid. But the zealots will want to destroy land (and sea) with the expensive electricity. Only with subsidies does it come close to not raising rates. But the users get charged so the developers make their money and run - flipping the eyesore to someone else to operate. The entire business model stinks. Just say no to wind and solar. Anybody wanting to build a data center should provide their own electricity and not use local water for cooling. Any of these fads that require subsidies are not good businesses.