Comments on: Home Panel Solar Politics

By: Tim and Trudy

Tim and Trudy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:09:19 +0000

Great comment, Rana! Hopefully our new administration will approach the renewable energy question positively and from an economics point of view.

They need to fuel both the demand and supply side of the solar market
-on the demand side, they should offer even better tax breaks and incentives for solar power home owners and businesses.
-on the supply side, perhaps offer government grants to green energy companies.

With these two forces working together, the number of solar panels manufactured will increase leading to greater economies of scale and thus lower unit costs.

By: Rana Sinha

Rana Sinha — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:45:12 +0000

Very interesting. Thanks. The new US administration will have to approach the energy question very seriously. It seems that the US and China are on a collision course towards securing the remaining sources of fossil fuel globally, especially in Africa. Usually politicians, particularly US politicians don’t want to become unpopular by making people cut energy consumption and meet stricter environmental requirements. So renewable energy – government initiatives are usually reactive strategies meaning that they do something when they really have no other option.

Here in Scandinavia, where we hardly ever see the sun for many winter months people have started investing in solar panels that work through the summer months. But windpower, which works throughout the year is almost non-existent except large installations in Denmark. Here in Finland also government initiatives followed the initial surge from individual pioneers.

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