Solar industry facing devastating 800% tax increase

independent.co.uk

20 pointsvezycash6 comments

Its a quite familiar pattern by now: A group lobbys to the state, the state hits on the competitor group or drafts laws, that "create" Buisness, by punishing old, but working, infrastructure/products.

If there ever was a mafia. I kind of respect the early bill gates, for trying not to get involved in this "buisness".

This is obviously terrible news, but Britain isn't really known for its sun. Most of our renewable energy comes from wind.

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

(it's not very windy today. This usually sits at 10-15%)

I don't see how bringing up the lackluster amount of solar energy Britain receives is supposed to relieve the effects of a tax increase.

Just stating that it'd be a much problem if this was wind. Most days in Britain are overcast anyway. Rains 200-250 days a year where I am

Neither is Germany which currently has more installed solar capacity than USA and China.

Germany, and all of continental Europe receive significantly more sun than the UK.

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