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Originally Posted by MaDalton
the subsidies in Germany will be cut now, they just change the law
the problem is that energy companies are forced by law to pay people who feed solar power into the net a higher price per kwh than people pay for their energy they buy.
means: i can feed solar power into the net and get paid 40 cents per kwh and at the same time buy "conventional" energy from the same company and pay 25 cents per kwh.
the effect: energy gets more expensive for everyone
stop subsidising all forms of energy and let the market sort out what works
and that includes subsidies to oil and nuclear companies
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good post.
We used to have the same type of subsidies over here as well. They canceled the whole system last year.
3 of my neighbors now have subsidized solar panels on their roofs. By the time they'll have earned their investment back, it will be almost time to replace their solar panels. And mark my words, that's when the fun will begin. Those panels contain heavy metals and other poisonous materials. I wouldn't be surprised if by then some well meaning green politician proposes a special safety tax for anyone disposing off anything that contains those heavy metals.
For several years we've had this system of subsidies and the end result is: a lot of home with solar panels that are incredibly inefficient and not suited to be used in this part of the world.
Under free market conditions, the way to convince potential clients to buy your solar panels, is to make sure they're actually efficient.
By subsidizing an inefficient technology, politicians have not made the technology more efficient. They have given manufacturers of inefficient solar panels an incentive to keep producing those inefficient products.
In a free market, producers of solar panels would have 2 choices: improve the quality (efficiency) of their product to make it more appealing to potential customers or quit wasting resources and find something else to do.