irishfield Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 Shots from today...I don't usually go North and over the trees... but.. 380 foot take off in 18" of snow!Man it looks cold out there.....and the wind chill having to get out and pull the airplane around with the windmill turning didn't help!Snake Island frozen in..Sound almost frozen out to the Giants Tomb.Penetang Harbour iced in.Ever see water boil when it's -18!Nottawasaga Bay freezing in... only the 4th time I've seen this since getting my licence in 1989!Maybe someone should have told them multi million dollar solar farms are useless in Canada!Glousteur Pool (or how ever you spell it) and Six Mile frozen in.Rarely see it frozen in front of the Delewana.. or the channel , let alone in December!
livinisfishin Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 Gotta admit the solar farm looks cool snow covered and from above!
irishfield Posted December 17, 2013 Author Report Posted December 17, 2013 That's right behind your place Jason.
Terry Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 cool wonder who goes out with the broom and clears off all the panels
irishfield Posted December 17, 2013 Author Report Posted December 17, 2013 (edited) Someone that's a day late Terry... one sunny day in the last 2 weeks and the week to come and they sure weren't making power today! .. I have to say I found a way to use tags here.. as I had no other way of entering anything.. locked out on Windows 7 pro Edited December 17, 2013 by irishfield
Entropy Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 Those solar farms are a waste of good land.
livinisfishin Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 Really?! Never would have guessed it. Can you see that with google earth?
livinisfishin Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 Those solar farms are a waste of good land. I agree with you but on the other side of the coin i have a couple of friends that have been employed building those things. May not be the best things for everyone but they must help someone at some point in time.
Entropy Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 I agree with you but on the other side of the coin i have a couple of friends that have been employed building those things. May not be the best things for everyone but they must help someone at some point in time. Ya, same here. Falther-inlaw is making real good coin putting these together, working some place near London, His house is off grid too, so he really is laughing to the bank.
Terry Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 Ya, same here. Falther-inlaw is making real good coin putting these together, working some place near London, His house is off grid too, so he really is laughing to the bank. they pay more then real value and then we make up the difference on our power bills
Steve Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 (edited) just a quick set of numbers, for the business folk on this board. 10MW solar farm cost: $35m Annual revenue generated: $7m (this is not some random number. We have insured these for almost five years. This is the average return, annually, on a 10MW solar farm). I actually insure that specific farm. Therefore, five years you break even (give or take a year or two depending on financing terms). Your contract with the government is 20 years. I'm sure it won't take a genius to see the $$business$$ sense behind operating a 10mw solar farm. Edited December 17, 2013 by Steve
BillM Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 Great shot Wayne! Hoping to make it out for some of those Gbay walleyes when the ice is good
irishfield Posted December 17, 2013 Author Report Posted December 17, 2013 Sure beats cutting the hay that they were Steve... but maybe they should have put shakers on the panels. If you're gonna build such a farm right in the lake squall sector... you'd think you'd take into consideration snowfall vs sunny days. 105 million return.. all on the back of hydro one users... No wonder my hydro bills is triple it was in '03. Yah.. I'm just jealous that I don't have a three phase grid going past the gate post!
Steve Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 (edited) i won't argue that point bud. i'm paying like the rest of ya. i'm not even the broker, so I'm not making any commission on this stuff...I just provide the insurance. Any questions, just ask. There was a point about about a waste of land. My personal experience is many, if not most, of these farms are being installed on land that otherwise isn't the most "farm-able". (not all, but most). Edited December 17, 2013 by Steve
irishfield Posted December 17, 2013 Author Report Posted December 17, 2013 Here's a video to go with the pictures. Unedited.. shows what's involved in a flight in the snow to some extent. Also shows why we get hammered here in the yard with snow, as the highest point of land on the "coast" of Georgian Bay and only 3500 feet from same!
nancur373 Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 just a quick set of numbers, for the business folk on this board. 10MW solar farm cost: $35m Annual revenue generated: $7m (this is not some random number. We have insured these for almost five years. This is the average return, annually, on a 10MW solar farm). I actually insure that specific farm. Therefore, five years you break even (give or take a year or two depending on financing terms). Your contract with the government is 20 years. I'm sure it won't take a genius to see the $$business$$ sense behind operating a 10mw solar farm. Just curious. If the government changes hands, will the contract still be guaranteed? Also I hear the government pays the 'farmer' more for the hydro produced than is collected from the end user. Is this correct?
Steve Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 (edited) Yes, they are guaranteed rate contracts, guaranteed for 20 years, regardless of the government in control. Yes, on the second question as well. If there wasn't an incentive, and the power was purchased at the price collected by the end user, it wouldn't be prudent for "the farmer" to put panels on their land/roof/etc. There have been revisions to the power purchase agreements, originally written prior to "FIT (feed into tariff)" program under a contract called "RESOP". Since the original power purchase agreement (PPA) offers, the government has consistently been decreasing the price paid per kw. This is proper and accepted by the investor, as the cost of the equipment (panels, inverters, etc) have decreased year by year (due to increased demand and local production). PPA's entered into today pay the highest from energy generated from panels on a rooftop (incentive to those who don't have "tons" of land to use for panels). The next highest is "small scale - microFIT" ground mount panels. You see these often on farmers fields with a "tilting" mechanism so that the panels follow the sun (those are called trackers). Finally, the lowest amount (but still very healthy amount) is paid to "large scale" ground mount farms, usually producing power between 1mw to 10mw - and upwards of 100mw (all per farm). Edited December 17, 2013 by Steve
hockeyplayerz_14 Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 holy irishfield! thats one of the best reports yet!
irishfield Posted December 17, 2013 Author Report Posted December 17, 2013 Now don't get ahead of yourself fishman.... be a good report if I could land on it and FISH !!
Whopper Posted December 17, 2013 Report Posted December 17, 2013 Awesome pictures and video Wayne. Quite the spread you have and the video almost satisfied my need for flight in small craft. Thanks for sharing!
irishfield Posted December 17, 2013 Author Report Posted December 17, 2013 Well Phil.. while you can land on a Condo... it's damn hard taking off again !
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