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For starters, construction costs for
solar
power plants are finally low enough to produce electricity at a competitive, stable price for more than 25 years.
Solar
power plants provide insurance against fossil fuels’ inherent price volatility.
This is a decisive factor for the economic viability of
solar
power plants, because they need very little maintenance but require relatively high upfront investment.
Solar
power is currently cheaper in cloudy Germany than in sunny regions where the cost of borrowing is higher.
By creating a stable legal framework, providing credit guarantees in the context of international agreements, and involving central banks in large-scale investments, governments can help to make
solar
power more accessible.
Factors like these explain why international climate policies increasingly focus not only on
solar
power, but on other forms of renewable energy as well.
“A largely or wholly
solar
economy can be constructed in the United States with straightforward soft technologies that are now demonstrated and now economic or nearly economic,” environmentalist Amory Lovins declared in 1976.
In fact, the world will spend $125 billion on wind and
solar
subsidies alone in 2017.
Despite four decades of financial support, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that wind provides just 0.5% of today’s energy needs, and
solar
photovoltaic a minuscule 0.1%.
More than $3 trillion will be spent on subsidies just on wind and
solar
photovoltaic over the next 25 years.
Even by 2040, and assuming that all of the Paris agreement’s promises are fulfilled, the IEA expects wind and
solar
to provide, respectively, just 1.9% and 1% of global energy.
Solar
and wind energy depend on considerable subsidies because in most contexts, they remain more expensive than fossil fuels.
When the United Kingdom cut
solar
power subsidies, installations plummeted.
It’s not very complicated: We must end wasteful subsidies for both fossil fuels and inefficient
solar
and wind.
China’s State Grid Corporation has plans to develop an energy grid that draws on wind turbines and
solar
panels from around the world.
Moreover, the construction of
solar
panels and wind farms in China has outpaced upgrades to its electrical grid, creating a great deal of waste.
Meanwhile, Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, combined with a rollback of environmental regulations, will lead to ecological degradation and slower growth in green-economy industries such as
solar
power.
The first is to shift massively from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, especially wind power and
solar
power.
Part of the tax revenue should be channeled into subsidies for new low-carbon energy sources like wind and solar, and to cover the costs of developing CCS.
The administration did impose tariffs in January on
solar
panels and washing machines, but those are small relative to the size of the economy.
The fall of a weight (or an apple!) can be connected to the moon’s orbit around the earth and even to the structure of galaxies holding billions of
solar
systems.
The Inter-American Development Bank estimates that CELAC can more than meet its future energy needs through renewable energy sources, including solar, wind, and geothermal.
The Hydrogen SolutionRHINECLIFF, NY – Around the world, governments and businesses are constantly being called upon to make big investments in solar, wind, and geothermal energy, as well as biofuels.
But a bigger, largely unreported, message is that some European countries, especially Germany, have launched projects that combine renewables like
solar
and wind with hydrogen for energy storage, implying clean, zero-emission, stable power grids that require no coal, oil, or nuclear power.
Kempton and Budischak designed a computer model for wind, solar, and storage to meet demand for one-fifth of the US grid.
The results buck “the conventional wisdom that renewable energy is too unreliable and expensive,” says Kempton.“For example,” according to Budischak, “using hydrogen for storage, we can run an electric system that today would meet a need of 72 gigawatts, 99.9 % of the time, using 17 GW of solar, 68 GW of offshore wind, and 115 GW of inland wind.”
Their study lends scientific supportto several such projects underway in Europe aimed at proving that hydrogen gas, converted from water via electrolysis – think of it as natural gas minus the polluting carbon – and stored, for example, in subterranean salt caverns, can smooth out fluctuations inherent in
solar
and wind energy.
According to the author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, Germany is in the international forefront of fighting climate change: “The clear alternative and the best news from 2012 came from Germany, the one big country that’s taken climate change seriously....There were days last summer when [Germans] generated more than half the power that they used from
solar
panels.”
Furthermore, despite its large geothermal and
solar
energy potential, Africa accounts for only 1.3% of the world's installed
solar
facilities, and only four countries have started exploiting underground heat sources.
China, which channeled around one-third of its stimulus package into environmental sectors, has seen its GDP rise sharply, and employment in renewable energies such as
solar
has climbed to more than 1.5 million, with 300,000 workers added in 2009 alone.
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