Solar power plants burden counties that host them - latimes.com
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les négociations entre les comtés et les gros développeurs de stations solaires sont assez brutales…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors considered charging companies a franchise fee to offset the effects on roads and public services and to compensate for the loss of recreation and tourism access to the 185 square miles of federal land. Local officials saw it as a matter of fairness. Public utilities pay 2% of gross receipts to the county, for example.
“The solar companies are the beneficiaries of huge government loans, tax credits and, most critically for me, property tax exemptions, at the expense of taxpayers,” (...)
“They brought in six guys with three-piece suits, a PowerPoint presentation, and said, ’Your 2% is going to cost us $3 million a year,’” said Benoit, whose district includes many of the projects. “I thought, ’Wait a minute. That means you are going to make $150 million a year....’ And they wanted to give us $96,000. It’s a pittance compared to the loss of value and impact of these huge projects.”
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