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Bringing Solar Energy Home

By Solar energy | November 7, 2008

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Bringing Southwest Solar Energy Home

As posted earlier (October 31st) I mentioned that one of the problems of harvesting all that lovely American Southwest solar energy is transmission. There is no energy grid out there to carry harvested solar energy to population centers. To our homes, that is.

Things are looking brighter!

Oilman, T. Boone Pickens and others are pushing to expand the energy grid to accommodate all renewable energy, not just wind.

“Pickens is big on wind, but he also favors solar. He says that wind energy is cheaper, but solar is gaining ground. In addition to pushing policymakers to make full use of the fertile wind territory that stretches from Texas to Canada, he wants to see more solar developed in the Southwest: ‘We are very close to doing something major with solar. In the Southwest we have the solar quarter. We hope we can combine the solar opportunities in the Southwest with wind. What we need is leadership to come forward so we can develop these resources’, he told Congress.”

Though it will take some time to get the energy grid built and prepared to transmit energy, this is good news.

Encouraging news as the Alliance to Save Energy predicts U.S. consumers will spend 13% of their earnings on home and transportation fuels this year.

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