How much of the worlds energy will solar make in 2030?

[ScienceRocks]

How much of the worlds energy will solar make in 2030? I'll say 20% of global energy will be produced by solar.

 

[Mr. H.]

You don't say!

 

[Manonthestreet]

How much is it now....

 

[ScienceRocks]

150gw as of the end of 2013.

Would have to increase to 32tw to make up 20%.

If the increase of the increase as we have seen the past two decades keeps up. Well, I think it's possible.

We're talking about 150 times as much solar now as we had in 2000. The rate of increase is big.

22tw if we stayed at the rate of the last decade. WITHOUT a increase.

China is mandating 12gw per year!
India is mandating a huge part of their improvement to be solar.
Even Saudi Arabia wants 30gw by 2030.

 

[Manonthestreet]

you got no shot..........even if power generated by other sources remained static, which it wont.....

 

[Zander]

2-3%

 

[RGR]

How much of the worlds energy will solar make in 2030? I'll say 20% of global energy will be produced by solar.

Based on what? The experience you've gained in the industry while pimping it to everyone within earshot using shoddy examples and ignorance of where the very energy and chemical feedstock comes from allowing you to do the pimping in the first place?

 

[Old Rocks]

Solar Power and Future Growth | The Energy Collective

The solar industry has been very hot. Record amounts of new solar capacity have been installed over the past two years. The accelerating pace of adoption of solar panels for distributed generation (installed at the point of use, rather than sold into the power grid) and the downward trend of module prices have created exuberance over the industry’s future.

Solar has reached and eclipsed price parity with traditional fuel sources in some markets, and ultimately the potential market for solar PV is huge. A solar module costs approximately 1% of what it did 35 years ago and prices for solar pv panels have plummeted since 2010, with an average price per watt for modules falling from $1.81 in 2010 to less than $0.70 and today.

It is clear that the future is very bright for the industry. What is less clear is when growth will accelerate and how near-term challenges for the industry could create some rough patches for the industry before widespread adoption drives truly explosive industry growth.

 

[jwoodie]

It depends on how much the government is willing to subsidize it.

 

[Political Junky]

It depends on how much the government is willing to subsidize it.

You think the government will ever subsidize solar as much as they do oil?

 

[westwall]

How much of the worlds energy will solar make in 2030? I'll say 20% of global energy will be produced by solar.

Wow.....you're optimistic!

 

[westwall]

It depends on how much the government is willing to subsidize it.

You think the government will ever subsidize solar as much as they do oil?

They don't subsidize oil. They "let" oil companies take the same tax breaks that any other manufacturer receives. Solar companies, on the other hand, couldn't exist without taxpayer funding.

 

[Political Junky]

Nevertheless, the official governmental goal is to generate 100 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2050.[4] The country is increasingly producing more electricity than it needs, driving down spot-market prices[5] and exporting its surplus of electricity to its neighboring countries (record exported surplus of 32 TWh in 2013). Ironically, a decline in spot-prices raises the electricity prices for retail customers, as the spread of the guaranteed feed-in tariff and spot-price increases as well.

Solar power in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Politico]

How much of the worlds energy will solar make in 2030?

Less than your tree hugger butt imagines it will.

 

[jambo101]

They don't subsidize oil. They "let" oil companies take the same tax breaks that any other manufacturer receives. Solar companies, on the other hand, couldn't exist without taxpayer funding.

Some reading on taxpayer funded subsidies to the oil companies.
Oil and Gas Third Quarter Profits | Taxpayers for Common Sense

 

[westwall]

They don't subsidize oil. They "let" oil companies take the same tax breaks that any other manufacturer receives. Solar companies, on the other hand, couldn't exist without taxpayer funding.

Some reading on taxpayer funded subsidies to the oil companies.
Oil and Gas Third Quarter Profits | Taxpayers for Common Sense

Your political advocacy group makes some very nice claims but then doesn't bother to back them up with these things called facts. I'm sure you know the difference between fact and opinion....so why do they provide no facts?

 

[whitehall]

How much of the worlds energy will solar make in 2030? I'll say 20% of global energy will be produced by solar.

Wow.....you're optimistic!

The German prime Minister estimates that solar/wind energy will cost Germany about a Trillion dollars by 2030.

 

[jambo101]

They don't subsidize oil. They "let" oil companies take the same tax breaks that any other manufacturer receives. Solar companies, on the other hand, couldn't exist without taxpayer funding.

Some reading on taxpayer funded subsidies to the oil companies.
Oil and Gas Third Quarter Profits | Taxpayers for Common Sense

Your political advocacy group makes some very nice claims but then doesn't bother to back them up with these things called facts. I'm sure you know the difference between fact and opinion....so why do they provide no facts?

If you look to the rightside of that link you'll see an icon called fact sheets,click on it.

 

[westwall]

Some reading on taxpayer funded subsidies to the oil companies.
Oil and Gas Third Quarter Profits | Taxpayers for Common Sense

Your political advocacy group makes some very nice claims but then doesn't bother to back them up with these things called facts. I'm sure you know the difference between fact and opinion....so why do they provide no facts?

If you look to the rightside of that link you'll see an icon called fact sheets,click on it.

I did. Opinion. No supporting evidence at all. No links to the oversight committees that regulate etc.

 

[Old Rocks]

No matter how many facts you present to Walleyes, he will deny them all.