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As a result, the US
solar
industry, which employs over 250,000 Americans, will suffer, while Trump continues futilely to try to revitalize a coal industry that employs fewer than 55,000 people.
For many countries, the next step will be preparing electricity grids to integrate high levels of variable renewable energy like
solar
and wind.
Thanks to the drop in the cost of
solar
panels and wind turbines, both are expanding at a faster pace than ever expected.
Old concerns about integrating wind and
solar
into traditional electricity systems are dropping away.
In Mexico, ambitious and frequently remote renewable-energy projects – hydropower, solar, and wind – are being connected to the grid.
China, which has the world’s largest installed capacity for renewable energy, is studying the requirements and costs of upgrading the grid to bring in higher levels of distributed
solar
power.
For poorer rural areas, this means creating a fertile environment for entrepreneurs and small power producers to develop mini-grids – generally powered by solar, small hydro, or solar-diesel hybrids – that can bring electricity to communities that would otherwise wait for years for grid connections.
China now has the world’s largest installed base of wind power, and its
solar
power capacity is second only to Germany’s.
From humble beginnings at the turn of the century, Chinese wind and
solar
companies have grown into some of the world’s largest and most efficient.
But the
solar
sector is the fastest-growing clean-energy industry, in large part because prices of
solar
panels have declined by more than 60% in the last 30 months.
By the end of this year,
solar
modules are expected to cost half as much as they did four years ago.
Owing to high prices for conventional energy and abundant sunshine, Italy is the first country to achieve grid parity, or cost-competitiveness, for
solar
energy.
Sixty-two percent of its private clean-energy investment was directed toward small-scale
solar
projects in 2010.
Last year, China added a staggering 17 GW of wind-power capacity, and now produces half of the world’s wind and
solar
equipment, in part to meet its own highly ambitious clean-energy targets, which include deployment of 150 GW of wind power and 20 GW of
solar
power by 2020.
With a target of 20 GW of
solar
generating capacity by 2020, investment in India could grow rapidly.
Today, we produce only a small fraction of the energy that we need from
solar
and wind – 0.7% from wind and just 0.1% from
solar.
Even with optimistic assumptions, the International Energy Agency estimates that, by 2035, we will produce just 2.4% of our energy from wind and 0.8% from
solar.
To green the world’s energy, we should abandon the old-fashioned policy of subsidizing unreliable
solar
and wind – a policy that has failed for 20 years, and that will fail for the next 22.
China can now generate 6.2 gigawatts of
solar
power and 68.3 gigawatts of wind power – the equivalent of 50 coal-fired power plants – and has nine of the world’s top ten solar-energy companies, which together produce 65% of the world’s photovoltaic panels.
So, as China rapidly develops
solar
power, China’s EVs will become, in essence,
solar
cars – and wind and hydro cars as those energy sources increase as well.
Popular
solar
lights cost almost $2 per kWh.
But others, such as wind, solar, and geothermal, are in some circumstances already cost competitive – or nearly cost competitive – with fossil fuels.
Examples of this dynamic include the startups and multinationals that have joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help find a cure for Ebola and entrepreneurs using
solar
panels to provide off-grid electricity to remote villages in Africa.
For example, the EU demanded that renewables like wind and
solar
account for 20% of energy supplies by 2020, though this is by no means the cheapest way to cut emissions.
And
solar
takes the absolute prize, costing more than $800 per ton of CO2 to do less than a cent of good per dollar spent.
Second, we must produce electricity with wind, solar, nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal, and other non-carbon energy sources, or by capturing and storing the CO2 produced by fossil fuels (a process known as CCS).
To succeed, we will need several decades to convert power stations, infrastructure, and building stock to low-carbon technologies, and we will need to upgrade the low-carbon technologies themselves, whether PV
solar
cells, or batteries for energy storage, or CCS for safely storing CO2, or nuclear power plants that win the public’s confidence.
The January 23 imposition of so-called safeguard tariffs on imports of
solar
panels and washing machines under Section 201 of the US Trade Act of 1974 is directed mainly at China and South Korea.
For starters, tariffs on
solar
panels and washing machines are hopelessly out of step with transformative shifts in the global supply chains of both industries.
Solar
panel production has long been moving from China to places like Malaysia, South Korea, and Vietnam, which now collectively account for about two-thirds of America’s total
solar
imports.
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