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Obama Plans For Solar Power For Homes Stalled
U.S. President-elect Barack recently promised that his presidency “will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change.” Pre-election, Obama vowed to promote clean and renewable energy. The signs were looking good for the furtherance of solar power for homes.
It was for those reasons that you may remember we at Go Solar Power For Homes Dot Com got behind his election campaign. However, it would appear that already Mr. Obama’s plans are coming up against some major obstacles. In these trouble times economically, the major power companies are getting cold feet. Consequently, this is looking to be a harder promise to keep than it was to make.
One of Mr. Obama’s highest priorities was to establish an optimistic new energy future. This would happen by creating huge quantities of wind, solar and nuclear energy. However, in order for this to happen, energy companies and utilities were always going to have to finance the massive new investments that would be needed.
The best way to describe it is that the funding has stalled. Take the example of the New York-based Clear Skies Solar Inc. Even though a major California utility company had agreed to buy all their output, nevertheless Clear Skies Solar recently had to cancel their plans to build a one-megawatt solar plant in California’s Mojave Desert. The reason for this was that they were unable to find funding.
This is the case with solar companies all across the U.S. Capital budgets are being slashed and projects are being cancelled.
Sadly, some of the first things the utility companies have trimmed are the renewable power projects that were supposed to be the vanguard of the country’s new energy future.
Members of Obama’s transition team assure us that, after fixing the economy, enacting environmental greenhouse-gas legislation is the new administration’s second-highest priority. But now, following the mess created by massive bank losses and the ensuing stock market collapse, the new economic realities dictates a less-expensive program.
So, our hopes at Go Solar Power For Homes Dot Com are still bright, but it looks like patience is the key. We are still pointing in the right direction. Looking over our shoulder in the direction of the White House, we are reminded how it could be so much worst.
Over there, in his last 60 days, we can see George Bush working at breakneck pace to pass thru as many new anti-environmental laws as possible. One example of this is a new law to ensure coal-fired power plants will no longer be required to install pollution controls or clean up soot and smog pollution. Another one of Mr Bush’s legacies, if he has his way, is set to be a law to open up 2m acres of land in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado to development of oil shale, the dirtiest fuel on Earth involving a number of environmental issues such as greenhouse-gas emission, air pollution and waste-water management.
So, we can be glad that, though things maybe are not going as fast as we might like with Obama’s plans, things could be a lot worse. Mr. Bush has promised that he will be heading off for a quiet life in Texas after he completes what was unarguably the very worst Presidency in U.S. history.
Bring on Obama! Go Solar Power For Homes!
From Sam Deane,
your solar power for homes guide,
at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.
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Info via: The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian Newspaper
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