Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation

[Jchonline]

Personally, Im not going anywhere. And I'd gladly welcome a solar farm surrounding my place making my property value (AND TAXES) plummet to nothing

Your property value would only go down if there are sales in the area that are comparable to the type/size of home you have. If no one sells...then your value wont decrease. It also wont decrease without an appeal most likely even if there are sales.

I suppose some people would prefer a pig farm on that GOOD farm land. LOL

Thats what I was thinking. At least the solar panels wont smell.....

 

[Jchonline]

I’m confused. What does Covid have to do with property tax evaluations?

Remote workers from out of state in a place with high property value already sell. With $$$ can move to the area and drive up property values beacuse they will pay whatever for the homes. Tons of that with COVID.

 

[Rockbadchild]

just a quick funny story about solar panels ... 10 years back there was big subsidies for solar farm, the adjacent city installed some in many field 4 or 5, a few guys got together and work out a scheme. They would barging the land owner to the lowest possible, giving them the lowest possible amount but he would himself buy the property then sell it back to a crazy high price back to the city, then the other guy who work for the city made arrangement with the solar panel company to inflate the prices and he would give him a percentage... Once everything was done they fled the country... everything came to light not too long ago. They frauded the city for $800,000... I guess these will have to be in place a few 100 years to break even

Two charged with defrauding Town of Kapuskasing

 

[JJT]

Lots of solar going in around me, I have no issues. It's saving a couple of big dairy farms that would go under without the solar projects. They are paying $1,500/acre per year with a 30 year guarantee and the option to extend. Let the farmers do what they need to survive. You cannot control what happens off your property, yet many neighbors are trying to shut these down. Here in NY, the state has the final say for large installations. Too many towns have enacted solar bans, or crazy setbacks, (like 1000'), or unrealistic site coverage. If you really want to save farmland, have the same setbacks are you do for residential buildings and let coverage exceed 20%.

I'll take solar over neighbors that party every single weekend, with loud music blasting. I'm on 45 acres and it's not big enough..... Good neighbors are priceless.

 

[Jstpssng]

They are popping up everywhere here. The access toad where I get onto the interstate has multiple panels set up in the clover leaf... which would otherwise be wasted land. There are so many industrial projects going up that it's starting to affect people who want to put a few on their house and tie into the grid. I don't understand that much about them but there isn't enough infrastructure to support all of the projects going on, so the little guy is being cut out of the picture.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

Nope, that’s not okay either.
Neither is first time home buyer help.
Housing help.
Food stamps.
Cancer research.
Disaster relief.
Pretty much anything else.

Common defense and interstate commerce is all they should be spending money on. If the free market wants the rest, then the free market will pay for it.

Same for farmers???

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I’m very aware of them, there’s so many depending on your state and local utilities and how they are subsidized to keep track of what’s what. Locally it’s free depending on sun exposure up to something crazy like 7kw beyond that you pay, but there’s strings.

I very much support solar in most ways, and hydro, and wind. I’m working on my own micro hydro because I feel it’s the most reliable for my situation. I just think it all needs to be paid for honestly and not claim you’re breaking even in a certain number of years when really you’re not because you aren’t paying for the entire system, your just repeating a lie.

As I stated in my oter post, I figured the breakeven without the incentives. Hard to be exact, but it would have been paid off around 10 years. That is NOT a lie. With incentives, about 8+/- years.

 

[Jstpssng]

Same for farmers???

Especially farmers. I don't completely agree with his statement but people should be willing to pay as well for things we need to survive as we do for our toys.
Perhaps if we knew the true cost of things we would do things differently.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I’m confused. What does Covid have to do with property tax evaluations?

For us, when we sold, the prices were inflated, because people didn't want to live in cities. The town would have been rich taxing the homes at that rate.

 

[sea2summit]

Same for farmers???

Absolutely. And stop funding these “associations” and “non-profits” like Dairy Management Incorporated and the equivalentants for beef, wheat, corn, etc. that is basically government trying to increase demand for a product they propped up more than the market would support. Let the market work it out.