bcok
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:34:22 AM
Good stuff.
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must87searcher
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:31:10 AM
This solar farm is s sure making business.
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Mowerman08
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:21:39 AM
My have to take a road trip to Delavan.
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TXGasPriceSpy
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:16:32 AM
That's wonderful.
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Bald1usa
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:16:29 AM
That is the way it is supposed to be...PRIVATE investors...NOT paying foot loose and fancy free with our tax dollars. Bless those investors that take a chance and make money.
My feeling are that if it is a worthwhile, reliable, HAS a market, and can produce a profit; investors will flock to it, oh, btw they may make a dollar or two on it. Then again, they could lose. Government has NO business in the venture capital business. We have seen it fail time and time again.
Look at all the great industrialists of this country...they had a dream, invested in that dream, produced a product, and became RICH, without Government help.
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beck12j
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:14:20 AM
thanks
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Colts13
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:13:59 AM
ok
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el_fr
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:13:24 AM
That's nice
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hubcapLA
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:12:14 AM
New approach
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KnoxGasPriceSpy
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:10:51 AM
big cost...
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joezIN
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:10:48 AM
real cool
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Charley_7
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:10:26 AM
Great for the investors, not quite so sure for the electricity prices...
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dlzastera
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:10:19 AM
How much???????????
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Bigtex09
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:09:58 AM
great
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amgine27
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:09:14 AM
ok
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marlita
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:08:26 AM
Great, would love to have solar panels hooked up at my home.
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N5EXY
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:07:01 AM
Solar and wind sounds like a bunch of hot air.
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wrunner
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:06:20 AM
Fascinating!
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Tundralimited2009
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:05:36 AM
Interesting
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APlus
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:05:07 AM
Great when can I invest in these?
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Ron77095
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:04:54 AM
meh.
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onegiraffeAL
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:04:00 AM
ok
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aquarinut
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:03:41 AM
From article: The brainchild of Convergence Energy of Lake Geneva, the networked solar farm has taken shape in the last couple of years as a green-power investment for people who want to invest in solar energy
From article: Depending on the specific investor agreement, the assets revert to Convergence at the end of either 11 or 20 years
Great investment... Pay lots, never own it and whoever the poor SOB that owns the land is TOTALLY screwed!!
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joel27nc
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 1:01:14 AM
Interesting.
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pgerassi
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:58:22 AM
Solar just doesn't pay currently unless heavily subsidized.
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no8c
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:57:46 AM
Thanks for posting this article!
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Rooster922
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:57:34 AM
Great, spread you knowledge around.
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ssect8
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:57:08 AM
Solar and wind are not the way of the future.
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915Chief
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:53:21 AM
still cost prohibitive....
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nztyraider
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:51:01 AM
Good for the investors but expensive for the buyers.
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chuckwthompson
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:50:22 AM
Great if you own a farm!
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Mariuxus
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:47:38 AM
Good....but still too expensive...
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onegiraffeAL
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:46:06 AM
ok
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Bonito
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:42:42 AM
Solar rocks but it needs to be made cheap and well!
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Blue_Cruzer
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:41:34 AM
Sounds good to me.
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momma2011MI
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:41:30 AM
good, but there has been a lot of solar powered items being cought on firer.
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RAE344
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:41:20 AM
That looks better then putting the solar cells on my roof.
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unicornpmb
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:38:31 AM
This will be great once the cost comes down on solar power.
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TommyTraveler
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:37:31 AM
Good!
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firasatali
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:37:20 AM
ok
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30mpg80
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:36:45 AM
Go for it!
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SUPPER
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:35:57 AM
Green cost $$$$$
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NightBoy
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:34:50 AM
Saw some solar cars in the community...well, 1 solar car...not sure if it is "Highway-approved". Find it funny that now the electric companies want to charge solar households for NOT using their electricity...a surcharge to save energy use.
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Hoporrene
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:34:42 AM
We should have been thinking about going green in the 80's...but better late then sorry huh
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vtroger
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:34:18 AM
Love solar farms...just put then in the middle of a field not roadside.
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Mnbncounter
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:32:48 AM
Excellent!!
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1momsunshine
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:30:40 AM
good
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amerk73
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:28:12 AM
good project
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teafortwo
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:27:30 AM
This is an intriguing project.
FROM THE ARTICLE:
The farm, which is now complete, is a series of 33 individual, limited liability companies. Each totals about 80 solar panels on three tracking towers that rotate to follow the sun from east to west. That generates about 30 percent more power than a more conventional system affixed atop a roof.
Each LLC produces up to 20 kilowatts of electricity, and the combined solar farm is the second-largest project in Wisconsin, trailing only the massive setup at Epic Systems' corporate campus in Verona.
It is the first in the state, however, to allow individual investors.
The first LLC went online in April 2010, while the last was finished just before Christmas 2011.
"We're now totally closed to new investors," Johnson said. "It was a combination of market demand, grants and incentives and the investors that led to this project.
"There seemed to be more interest toward the end of the cycle, and lots of folks were approaching us as we sold out."
Convergence Energy is a full-service provider of solar energy products, primarily focusing on every aspect of design, construction and administration. Based on a similar solar garden in Colorado, the Delavan project received funding from the state's Focus on Energy program, as well as money from the federal stimulus package.
At the farm, Convergence makes its money on the equipment and its installation. It became the first customer of Helios Solar Works, which opened last year in Milwaukee.
Depending on the specific investor agreement, the assets revert to Convergence at the end of either 11 or 20 years.
In the meantime, investors get quarterly checks for the power generated at the farm and sold to We Energies.
Johnson said individual investments ranged from $15,000 to $50,000, and investors can reasonably expect to recoup their investment in seven to 10 years. Beyond that, the quarterly checks are profit.
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HKL
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 12:24:04 AM
ok
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