By Craig Swanson
President, Keep Sedona Beautiful
The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors will consider and vote on an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to add a new Section 608 covering utility-scale solar facility requirements, standards, and procedures. This meeting will be held on Wednesday September 4 at 9:00 am at 1015 Fair Street in Prescott.
Northern Arizona is well-suited to generate a significant amount of the energy we need from both individual rooftop installations like the one on the Keep Sedona Beautiful EcoHub and by well-considered utility-scale installations.
Without clear direction and guidance, utility-scale solar development will lag in Yavapai County. This proposed amendment provides that guidance while establishing a process to protect the environment. You can read the proposed Yavapai County ordinance language HERE.
For reference, you can read the current Coconino County ordinance language HERE. The text of this document is exactly what was incorporated into Coconino County code.
Keep Sedona Beautiful urges you to support this proposed amendment that will expedite the addition of utility-scale solar facilities in Yavapai County. You can register your support via this Yavapai County survey, or by using the following QR code.
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8 Comments
I foolishly started to read the 34-page document and stopped almost at the beginning when I got to the 80kWh limitation on battery capacity for a residential installation. I have an all-electric house and use a lot more than that daily in cold weather. Is there some (unmentioned) reason for that limitation? Isn’t the homeowner in a better position to select the size of the installation than what appears to be an arbitrary number that takes no account of the house, land, or circumstances?
Do we really need this 34-page law at all?
OK, for those not keeping up, any day now the electricity around the world will be turned off momentarily to allow a switch to a planetary free energy system (Tesla). This will antiquate solar panels, batteries and wind turbines overnight. At that time, we will be faced with safely recycling all the panels and batteries and blades. Fortunately for the earth, there are companies poised for this role. I will be working with one and understand the technology. It is a replicator type of technology. (From plasma it came and back into plasma it will go.)
What I would suggest is deep research on this matter, and a consideration about other ways to dedicate currently available funds.
I’d be all for solar if I didn’t have to-
• Be connected to a utility company that profits from my system.
• Have to have roof top (potentially leak causing) panels and could have rotating ground panels that followed the rising and setting of the sun and also functioned off of moon light as newer panels do.
For now I will refrain from going solar until the industry catches up with itself and reality. Alternative energy is the future but how we get there needs to be done smarter. We definitely do not need filthy fossil fuels except as a backup source of energy. We’ve done quite enough damage to the planet with those filthy fuels!
If I felt foolish in my first response, I must be an idiot by not knowing about replicator technology and LUNAR panels.
Of course, if we could extract the mass-energy equivalent from even a single chocolate chip, all our problems would be solved. ( http://www.priups.com/riklblog/feb23/230205-link3.htm )
Filthy Fuels? Guess you have no clue how this “green stuff” is made or disposed of.
You should really look into it. From the rare earth mines in Africa owned by China with kids digging through toxic materials by hand (oh yes, easily seen with a Google search) to the disposal of end of life wind turbines blades that are next to impossible to recycle, so they bury them! Pretty green huh.
China cons us into wind and solar, neither of which are baseload power, and is pouring concrete like crazy for modern nuclear plants. We’re stupid, and gullible.
The only green about the green new deal is the money.
You’re going to have fossil fuels for a long time as we develop real clean power, if you want electricity. See what an AI center consunes?
Better find out.
Last year coal use was up substantilly, 8.6 BILLION tons. Globally, Most ever. China and India are not waiting, and they have no commitment to the fake Paris Accords. Read it. China brings on a new coal plant average every 10 days.
Energy is power, energy is security and energy is life. And the first thing Biden did was fire 12,000 pipeline construction employs and almost doubled oil cost.
This better change. It’s not working. You can’t keep up with the energy growth with intermittent systems. That’s not only illogical, it’s plain stupid and is extremely dangerous to our security.
Again you’re all over the place and parroting Rusher Propaganda.
Yes green energy production and disposal can cause environmental damage. However, the industry as an industry is relatively new since Big Oil did everything in its power to wrongfully discourage and discredit it.
The industry is learning to make its products 100% recyclable and 100% clean. Big Oil and Coal cannot come close to stating that!
Oil and Coal are FILTHY and toxic in production, use and disposal and has been for decades upon decades.
I do happen to believe that we should maintain strategic reserves of coal and oil for war and disaster relief and use. Butt even the military recognizes climate changes caused by fossil fuels and has made great strides in the creation and use of alternative sourced fuels such as solar and green fueled vehicles and aircraft. Butt to discount alternative energy all together in lieu of the continued use of climate damaging fossil fuels is just plain ignorant! We have Navy bases being submerged by Ocean and Sea risings caused by global warming which was caused by FILTHY FOSSIL fuel contamination.
Even NASA and most private Billionaire owned space companies have moved away from fossil fuels and that includes Dumps pal South Afrikaaner Musk! Space X uses clean burning naturally occurring methane and oxygen for fuel not Kerosene, Diesel or toxic jet fuels as NASA had traditionally used.
The caveman didn’t have heaters nor AC units and yet somehow we evolved from dependence upon wood fire and cave dwelling for heating and cooling. Butt to your logic we should have stuck with the caves and wood fires?
The problem with the MAGGOT movement is you all want to return to the 1920’s toxic brown sky and waterways and stay there out of ignorance while the rest of the non M’erica First world moves forward and get technologically and environmentally advanced and learn to live in clean productive environments.
Do you have a link for your plasma planetary free energy system of Tesla? I’d love to see it.
I wouldn’t give a dime to Afrikaners Boer Elon for anything! He uses bright minds to create things and then takes the credit for it all himself. He is nothing short of a selfish shite egotistical boy man with money like his treasonous boy man buddy Dump!.
That would be very nice. However, the entire concept of free energy is not pursued by power companies or other entities because it’s simply not possible. The preservation of energy, along with the laws of thermodynamics, are not something that is easily challenged, simply because they are supported by a lot of hard evidence. I’d stick with my solar panels, wind, geothermal, tidal, and other clean renewable technologies that do work and are constantly being improved.