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Solar PV Leads Small Town into Solar Big Leagues

By Paul Gipe, Contributor
November 21, 2011   |   3 Comments

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November 22, 2011
Congrats to GRU for achieving this sustainable milestone. Here's a great example of a prudent, progressive and well designed FIT driving demand without creating the 'boom and bust' oversubscription of SRECs. One other key to their success is their committment to working with EPCs and homeowners on interconnection and permitting, making the process more streamlined and hassle free. As much as incentives, it helps when the utility has a welcomming, partnering attitude toward renwables, unlike a few we could mention.

GRU is the brightest light in Florida's otherwise cloudy incentive climate. Wish them continued success and higher adoption rates as PV prices continue to fall.
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November 22, 2011
Appears to cost up to 32 cents per kWh... for twenty years
http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=FL77F&re=1&ee=1
I think it's cool, being that it's only like twice the current costs of electricity and that it's shared by so many ratepayers, it's not (yet) noticeable to them.
However, I believe a lower feed in is necessary (across the board) to continue solar's exponentiation via large scale advanced machine automation!
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December 27, 2011
Our SUN in the heavens above gives the Earth more then enough Solar Energy to power all are needs.

Very soon most of the world will not need Oil. Renewable Energy like Solar, Wind, Hydro and Geothermal are now replacing Dirty Energy like Oil and Coal. Solar Energy is growing World Wide at a record pace.
Hybrid Cars are being sold at a record pace. Soon Hybrid Vehicles that run on Electric / Hydrogen, The Freedom Element. Will free the world from Oil. Thanks to a Great Scientist Dr. Addison Bain's Years of work for our Nation and with the Space Program on Hydrogen.

The day will come when many will see Solar Panels on most everything. What Free Electric the sun makes will be used to split water into Hydrogen. The Hydrogen will be used to heat our homes and to cook on and put into are Hybrid Vehicles that will run on
(The Freedom Element). Very soon most all will be filling up their Vehicles at Home.
Free from the Sun's Solar Energy. Just as Dr.Addison Bain has done for years The Fist Hydrogen Home Refueling Station in the World. That Dr. Addison Bain built by his self.

For info on Solar Energy see The Florida Solar Energy Center FSEC. Bill Young is One of the world most authority on Solar Energy PV. As Ailbert Eisenstein would say i won the Nobel Prize for Physics for my work on PHOTOVOLTAICS Energy from the SUN.

GOD Bless All
and may our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Light Up Your World and cheer your Heart this Christmas season and the coming new year 2012.
Pray for the lost to come to know Jesus Christ.

The Lord's Little Helper
Paul Felix Schott
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