[RE Marketing] solar tax legislation? [RE-wrenches]

[Allan Sindelar]

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Bill,
30% federal tax credit? I would be quite concerned about 30% as too high. I
think that it will create the kind of artificial market that led to abuse in
the late 70s for solar thermal, where the economics were tilted too far and
fast-buck folks got into selling tax credits. Keep in mind that this is
added to state incentives, that range from nonexistent in many states to
around 1/2 of system cost. The combination could drive a huge and
unsustainable tax-driven demand that could result in ugly, unsafe, and/or
underperforming systems. Keep in mind also that we are already all dealing
with module supply and demand problems, and an artificial tax-credit-driven
demand would cause the jobs to go to whoever can get modules--at any price.
Allan at Positive Energy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bill roush" <billroush at gmail.com>


Jeff, Jay, others,

Somewhere in this thread we went from discussing the Federal Energy
legislation (with a possible 30% tax credit for PV and hot water) to
the qualifications needed for the CA solar program legislation. Some
may be confused.

Back to the original question, what we want to do about supporting or
not the Federal bill? My own opinion is that a 30% credit is not
enough to spur the kind of activity we had back in the day, but that
it would be a huge nationwide endorsement for our industry.

in any case how about moving this discussio to the RE-Marketing list?

-- 
Best,
Bill Roush
billroush at gmail.com
816-868-9695

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