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 Posted: Wed Jun 18th, 2008 03:28 pm
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Joe Kelley

 

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http://cleantechnica.com/2008/06/17/10-us-electricity-from-solar-by-2025/

The Utility Solar Assessment Study produced by Clean Edge and Co-op America finds that solar energy is already reaching cost parity with conventional sources in some areas of the U.S. where electric rates are highest. By 2015, this will be achieved in many more areas, including Boston, San Diego, and New York. By 2025, cost parity will be achieved throughout the U.S.

The implications of this are huge. The U.S. solar photovoltaic market now relies heavily on state incentives to lower the cost of solar energy. Many people utilize solar energy because it is “the right thing to do” or businesses like the positive publicity solar brings.

Please remember how PRICE and COST can easily confuse the Cost/Benefit calculation.

Currently the cost/benefit reality favors benefit, cearly, since no other explanation is needed to make sense of the growth in this human industry.

The bottom line is more POWER at lower cost.

Do you want more POWER at lower cost?

Some people do, other's may not be up to speed yet.