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.
I have the perfect place to mount solar panels, the south south west facing roof of my garage/shop, which is not shaded by any trees. But it’s also 14 feet high at the lowest point, and my 72nd birthday is less than a month away; for how much longer will I be able to maintain them?
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.
How about all the ugly solar farms in Georgia as Kemp cozied up to a Chinese spy??
There are a couple of ugly “solar farms” in Fayette County, visible from Interstate 64, and there was an application for another on agricultural land that was being fought.
I was involved with engineering and permitting of a couple dozen cell towers in Vermont in ’97 & ’98, well before your typical 8 year old had their own cell phone. Our development review meetings were full of supposed environmentalists moaning about what a blight to the landscape our antennas would be sticking 30 feet or so above the top of the canopy on a hilltop that could not be seen except from other surrounding hilltops, and even then, only if there was a clear view (rare) and you had binoculars. We had protesters at several of the sites we finally got approved for construction before I moved on to other sorts of engineering. Now, of course, cell towers are demanded everywhere.
Now, every time I go back, I see another .gov (taxpayer) funded solar eye sore that was no doubt celebrated and endorsed by the same crowd that used to jump up & down crying environmental doom at the thought of a parking area that didn’t have a “green island” every 20 feet.
These nimrods are beyond hypocritical, worse, they honestly believe that they are being completely consistent.