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Affordable Residential Solar Energy by 2015
By Solar energy | November 24, 2008
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Affordable Residential Solar Energy by 2015
The U.S. Department of Energy predicts that solar energy will be financially attainable to the average American household by the year 2015.
Through the DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP), solar will be competitive with conventional energy sources.
The Independent Collegian reports on the SETP goals.
“In our program, we’ve been focusing primarily through the Solar America Initiative on driving down the cost of solar to the point where it’s at grid parody, so at the price that you pay for electricity just from normal generation of electricity.”
I love the Solar American Initiative’s goal.
“If SAI’s goal is met by the solar industry in 2015, then solar electricity will be cost effective for any American who pays an electricity bill.”
Solar energy cost effective for “any American who pays and electricity bill.”
This is good news indeed.
But I don’t plan on waiting for 2015.
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