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It doesn't. Solar is ridiculously cheap and requires no subsidy at all to be profitable. If this is happening (which frankly I doubt) it's just corruption.
by olddustytrail 1y ago
It doesn't. Solar is ridiculously cheap and requires no subsidy at all to be profitable.
If this is happening (which frankly I doubt) it's just corruption.
- lotsofpulp 1y agoIf this were true, then wouldn’t every electricity supplier be building tons of solar, regardless of what the government does?
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> wouldn’t every electricity supplier be building tons of solar, regardless of what the government does? They are. And it’s undercutting the owners of pricier plants. Hence Trump using environmental regulation to block more solar.
- lotsofpulp 1y agoLand of the free, home of the brave gets funnier and funnier.
- softwaredoug 1y ago93% of new energy generation is renewable. Nobody wants a new coal or nuclear plant in their back yard. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5319056/trump-clean-energy-electricity-climate-change#:~:text=The%20buildout%20of%20big%20solar,93%25%2C%20the%20EIA%20said. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5319056/trump-clean-ene...
- olddustytrail 1y agoAs JumpCrisscross said, they really are. Look at solar deployments across the planet. They do need planning permission of course and that's where they can be blocked.
- lotsofpulp 1y agoI see that now, thanks. So much for all that freedom.
- lukeschlather 1y agoAccording to the article Trump is trying to ban new solar developments. Suppliers are building tons of solar but they can't do so if the government makes it illegal.
- dragonwriter 1y agoWell, not in California where there is both a residential solar mandate assuring new distributed supply and where solar already reaches over 100% of demand at peak; adding new utility-scale solar doesn't make a lot of sense even if it is cheap.
- zahlman 1y agoIf solar is "ridiculously cheap" (per GGP) and California has abundant supply of it, why does electricity in major cities in California (see e.g. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APUS49B72610 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APUS49B72610) cost several times what it does in Toronto, Ontario (https://www.oeb.ca/consumer-information-and-protection/electricity-rates https://www.oeb.ca/consumer-information-and-protection/elect... , and note these prices are in CAD)?
- dalyons 1y agoPolitics and corruption. The generation cost is low, but the government backed monopoly folds all kinds of distribution, deferred maintenance, fire damage, and political pet projects into the retail price. It sucks.
- thunderfork 1y ago[dead]