{"id":474717,"date":"2010-03-21T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16432059.post-8023812376532607024"},"modified":"2010-03-21T23:13:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:13:56","slug":"missouri-solar-taking-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474717","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Solar taking off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Since 2000, electricity rates have gone up by about 4.5% annually.  Even in this downturn, electric utility have little shame in raising rates to invest in infrastructure that depends on 20th century approaches.  In 2008, Missouri voters decided to pass a 300 MW solar program within a bold RPS plan.  The plan requires a rebate for solar at $2\/Watt for projects up to 100kW.  In the meantime, solar PV prices have plumented and 100kW solar systems can be installed now for less than $3.90\/Watt.  With matching federal incentives solar is now cheaper than rates in Missouri, especially after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5ijFYF9OHG8WOvdyFaJnWX9LY9KwwD9EFBOVO0\">AmerenUE decided to raise rate again<\/a>.  These utilities really have no ability to look out more than a few years.  As AmerenUE decides to keep raising rates they are driving electricity customers to keep look for alternatives.  These don&#8217;t just include solar.  They now include geothermal, cogeneration, fuel cells, and other technologies.  <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Jigar Shah<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Carbon War Room<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">www.carbonwarroom.com<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Content provided by and all rights reserved to CleantechBlog.com.  Also check out http:\/\/www.cleantech.org<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/16432059-8023812376532607024?l=www.cleantechblog.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2000, electricity rates have gone up by about 4.5% annually. Even in this downturn, electric utility have little shame in raising rates to invest in infrastructure that depends on 20th century approaches. In 2008, Missouri voters decided to pass a 300 MW solar program within a bold RPS plan. The plan requires a rebate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}