[RE-wrenches] ARCO Solar and Carrizo Plain

[Marco Mangelsdorf]

Us old-timers remember the dismemberment of the then big ARCO Solar grid-tie
project down in So. CAL. In the 1980s and the parting out of that project in
dribs and drabs for years.

 

I was wondering recently with all these ever so big and getting bigger
grid-tie projects sprouting like mushrooms across the developed world: why
did ARCO Solar and the utility (PG&E?) scrap the whole thing after a
relatively short period of time?  Causes me to wonder about the fate of so
many of the mammoth projects now going in as far as what's going to happen
when the owner-investors likely bail, having made their handsome ROIs, after
the tax credits and MACRS depreciation plays out.

 

Thanks,

marco

 

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