Balfour Golf Club House Solar Scam



More DECEPTION AND MISINFORMATION

The phony Balfour Golf Club House solar System grant and deceptive
on line public data information.


All solar systems from public grant applications I am aware of are about dishonorable ethics, dishonesty, misinformation and deception.    In opinion done willfully and knowingly, the definition of fraud.

Much of this is just a repeat of the Balfour Community Hall Scam by the same company same story.



 Balfour Golf Clubhouse Solar system Scam

                               Balfour Golf Club House Solar System

The Nelson hydro states a 25kW maximum, installed is 40.3kW but the online info shows 24.8kW.

Very clever of Dandelion Renewables, the Alberta company that told the RDCK what they wanted to hear and won the bid.   The losing Alberta bidder showed a system less than 25kW with the statement "in order to meet the Nelson hydro bylaw maximum of 25kW".  So just how did this happen?
I asked the Nelson hydro manager, he never answers my questions after all the time I spent showing him the dishonesty of his community solar garden.  He no longer works for the city but we are stuck with his community solar garden scam.  He presented city council with a business case, I can only presume the mayor wanted it for her greenie points, he provided against all professional ethics.





The Alberta installers set up the on line public data so it looks like only 24.8kW is installed (meets the Nelson hydro bylaw).  40.3kW is installed.   Anyone using this for their calculations is fooled.  Actually they would have to be pretty stupid, because this system works better than any other local system, beyond reason.  In reality its working about 25% less than any other system, the data just fools you.




I don't know really what kind of fishy business is going on here.  The peak power on a good days shows as above about 24.8kW.  To those who don't know anything this represents 100% efficiency, they show 24.8kW installed.  There is NO SUCH thing, typical efficiencies are around 60-70% if systems are working properly.  The Balfour community hall and Seniors centre show this.
This system is working at about 61% efficiency, which agrees with the 40.3kW actually installed.


Very clever of the installing business, provide exaggerated annual power and earnings to RDCK in their bid report.  They told the RDCK what they wanted to hear, got the job, the money and now they are gone.

I tried to help, told the director I would look over any bids because I told her public money was a total waste for solar here anyways.  I never heard from her.  Later I told her how disappointed I was.
She replied, well you just don't like solar.  I replied, no, I don't like people picking my public pocket for things that are worthless.

Will we be seeing another phony grant application for yet more public building solar power systems? Very likely around here, its a religion, economics and reality have nothing to do with how that public money is spent, its all philosophical,  I just want it to be someone else's money not public money!

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