They should be looking at lots of projects, see where the money goes. How it is spent. Is the project viable? Did it get completed? How much ended up in people’s pockets? (via Watts Up With That?)
EPA Internal Watchdog Peeks Under The Hood Of $7 Billion Biden Solar Program
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is opening an audit into a $7 billion Biden-era solar deployment program, the OIG said in a Wednesday letter.
The OIG is auditing the Solar For All program, which is part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Biden EPA used the program to route massive checks to sixty recipients — primarily state governments —around the country so that awardees could finance solar panel deployment in low-income areas. The Trump EPA is now following up on the program’s funding.
“Our objective is to describe the status of funds, top recipients, and potential risks and impacts of the EPA’s Solar for All program within the Office of the Administrator’s Office of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,” the letter reads. “We plan to conduct work at headquarters and regions, if necessary.”
That looks like political speak for “you best have covered your asses, because we’re about to be proctologists.”
Some of the states that received massive checks from the Solar for All program happen to be among the least-sunny states in the U.S.
For instance, the Executive Office of the State of New Hampshire received approximately $43.5 million from the program, and the Vermont Department of Public Service reaped nearly $62.5 million while the Maine Governor’s Energy Office raked in $62.1 from the Solar for All program. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Solar Radiation Database Physical Solar Model indicates that New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine are among the least-sunny states in the U.S.
What have they done with the money? There’s been time to get projects off the ground. Or, was it just money to pass around to Democrat donors?
How much are they paying the sweepers to clear the snow off the panels in ME, VT and NH? They must have put in a lot of hours this past winter. I spent most of my life up in that area, and there were a lot of days I had to dig my way out in the morning and then dig my way back in that night.
All currently available solar, both PV and especially thermal, and all associated battery tech, have been forced to market several phases of development too soon because of .gov money laundering schemes (subsidies).
Large scale wind is even more of a boondoggle, absolute fraud from the very concept. Never made sense even in theory.
It’s beyond organized crime because the entire process of manufacture, deployment and decommissioning, from raw materials to disposal, creates nothing but humanitarian, economic and ecological disaster.
All at the expense of the taxpayer.