'WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES I MAKE?'
I'm pretty sure all that's subsidized by the Fed GREEN JOB ADMIN. anyways.....so what the HAY?
TOADY SEZ:
THIS IS A BIG EFFIN DEAL
Posted on 06/11/2013 10:22:44 AM PDT by ckilmer
New solar photovoltaic power installations in the United States totaled 723 megawatts (MW) during the first quarter, up 33 percent over the same period in 2012,
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
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GTM Research and Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) forecast that during 2013, the industry will install 4.4 gigawatts (GW) of photovoltaic power facilities - enough to power about 800,000 average American homes. That will rise to nearly 9.2 GW annually in 2016.
As the cost of solar photovoltaic panels declines, solar power is one of the fastest-growing new energy sources in United States
“Installations will speed up over the next four years as projects become economically preferable to retail power in more locations,” said Shayle Kann, vice president of research at renewable power information company GTM, a unit of Greentech Media.
Kann warned, however, that changes to net metering and electricity rate structures could serve as the market’s primary barrier.
SEIA is an industry trade group.
The report said the average residential photovoltaic system price fell below $5.00 per watt, while the average nonresidential system price fell below $4.00 per watt.
The report also said concentrating solar power capacity is expected to make “major gains” by the end of the year, adding more than 900 MW of capacity.
The report looked at both photovoltaic power, which uses solar panels to generate power, and concentrating solar power, which uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight on a tower or other structure to heat liquid to produce steam to power a turbine. It said the United States now has more than 8.5 GW of installed solar capacity and is expected to add 5.3 GW in 2013.
Some of the biggest solar power companies include units of Abengoa SA, Consolidated Edison Inc, Electricite de France SA, Enel Green Power SpA, First Solar Inc, Iberdrola SA, NextEra Energy , NRG Energy Inc, Sempra Energy and SunPower Corp.
At cities and government buildings for the most part.
And it will still be a relatively tiny amount of power generation, right?
How many facilities switched away from solar energy?
How often do the need to be cleaned?
What is the ROI for panels these days? How many years before it will pay for itself?
Nothing against solar power. Just don’t make me subsidize it. And don’t come crying when we get a week of cloudy days.
How often do the need to be cleaned? ....Dependent on where you live, for 100% efficiency, daily.
So is the cost of cleaning them taken into consideration? I doubt it. The whole purpose of “green energy” is to make energy astronomically expensive the peasants are driven to starvation.
How many facilities switched away from solar energy?
NOT FACILITIES. Probably most installations are done at homes and residences where some states give you large tax incentives and other incentives. Plus power companies and the Federales offering tax rebates and other goodies such as the ability to sell your solar generated electricity at an outlandish price to the utility you are hooked up to
All I know is my grand nephew works on one of them farms out west someplace and I saw him two years ago for a day or so at a family reunion. He had one HELL OF A TAN. He said he worked as a cell cleaner. He wiped down those things almost daily because of bird shiite, dust, dew and other crap. He said it paid really good for a 23 yr. old kid ($45,000) and he was guaranteed a job until the silly thing went bust. I brought him a beer from my cooler. He had said it was the dumbest thing he ever saw.
That’s about what I figured. Thanks!
TOADY SEZ:
THIS IS A BIG EFFIN DEAL
I remember tax incentives and rebates being offered long ago to install solar power and water heating systems. It didn’t seem to work well then, and it probably doesn’t work too well now.
It’s still a big risk to make the switch.
The company I work for went to solar power a few years ago. I haven’t heard yet whether it turned out to be worth it in the long run.
A California state rep wants to have the state use 51% of renewable energy by 2030, his proposal will likely pass.
Sunset for Solar Subsidies
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/sunset_for_solar_subsidies.html
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It looks like solar—unlike wind—is going to come out a winner in the grid parity game.
There are early reports that solar is reaching grid parity in places like Arizona.
Further the pace of solar power price declines suggests that within 5-10 years solar will reach grid parity everywhere without subsidies.
This is significant.
Why?
Because the price and efficiency of water desalination membranes is also falling—and therefor the price of water desalination. Water desalination is currently too expensive for anything but municipal use —and even then its the most expensive of options. But the price is falling. There’s even news that Lockheed has produced a super RO membrane that will be many orders of magnitude better than current models.
http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21578525-desalination-useful-application-may-have-been-found-graphene-improving
What is the significance of cheap power from the sun and cheap water from the ocean.
Basically most of the world’s deserts are beside the ocean.
If you can make cheap energy and cheap water in the deserts —then basically you can turn the world’s deserts green and double the size of the habitable planet.
that technological breakthrough is not happening today or next year. But it definitely looks to be in the cards sometime in the next ten years.
I don’t know the details on maintenance but I do know that cleaning is an issue.
And it will still be a relatively tiny amount of power generation, right?
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Yes. solar represents only about 1% of total power output.
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