Federal tax incentives threaten local solar power arrays
As with most small endeavors, if they become too large, they then introduce their own set of new problems. This is apparently the case with solar power, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. In the hands of the individual, solar power is something you harvest and conserve, giving you more responsibility for your own reliability on the sun. But once you centralize solar power, it introduces the problems of distribution from that centralized location, which drives up the cost, and drives down the feeling of responsibility to conserve.According to this report, there are actually federal tax incentives to promote centralized power plants which discriminate against the locally-owned, decentralized solar arrays. So John Farrell, the report's author, calls for Congress to change these incentives and give equal benefits to residential and commercial solar projects.
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