MIT study says solar panels can power the world!

[Darkwind]

well wonderful, they can pay for it too. you know that saying. Put their money where their mouths are

Why not use the subsidies we are handing to the big oil comp.....oh wait. Repuuuuublicans won't stand for taking one cent away from their rich constituents....

There are no subsidies...so that means your little project won't get funded........

Here is an idea.....take the technology and start a business selling it to the converts......


Oh...wait.....

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Today s Solar Panels Can Power The World MIT Study Finds CleanTechnica

How did this story get past Exxon, Mobile, and the Republican Party? Amazing!

They didn't dare suppress it. A pissed-off MIT is a lot scarier than pissed-off CIA that's for damn sure.

 

[Old Rocks]

Solar Power Sees Unprecedented Boom in U.S. - Scientific American

Yet, even with those caveats, industry officials and analysts forecast a continued boom in U.S. solar markets over the near term, with a projected 31 percent growth target for 2015. The growth will be fueled by falling costs for solar panels and modules, business model innovation that allows for more flexibility in ownership, favorable political and regulatory environments, and increased access to low-cost capital.

Solar beats wind and coal on key metric
Shayle Kann, senior vice president at GTM Research, noted that in just five years, the U.S. PV market—which does not include concentrated solar plants—has witnessed a fourfold expansion, from an estimated $3 billion in 2009 to $13.4 billion last year.

Moreover, solar accounted for 32 percent of the nation's new generating capacity in 2014, beating out both wind energy and coal for the second consecutive year. Only natural gas constituted a greater share of new generating capacity, according to the report.

Looks like solar is doing fine.

 

[Old Rocks]

APS expected to seek 400 solar fee increase Arizona Capitol Times

Arizona Public Service hopes to more than quadruple the monthly fee it charges to solar customers, advocates for the rooftop solar industry say.

The move comes just weeks after the Salt River Project board approved a solar charge on users in its territory that is expected to average $50 per month.

Solar leasers and industry experts predicted APS would ask the Arizona Corporation Commission for an increase to the $5 monthly fee the Commission approved in 2013. Those predictions were bolstered when Prosper, an advocacy group that spent more than $1 million on APS’s behalf in 2013 supporting the utility’s solar surcharge, voiced support to SRP’s rate hike.

The fees are used to offset solar customers’ grid usage.

APS is meeting with commissioners and staff to discuss a potential proposal to increase the solar fee, Corporation Commission spokeswoman Rebecca Wilder confirmed Friday morning.

“There’s not a filing before the Commission, so the Commission can’t speak to any potential proposal until it has been filed,” she said.

At some point, the utilities, rather fighting solar, are going to have to come to terms with a world in which consumers are also producers. Or find themselves with a large number of customers telling them to get their lines off of their property. The recent advances in home battery storage makes this very possible.



Read more: APS expected to seek 400 solar fee increase Arizona Capitol Times

 

[Old Rocks]

Berkeley Lab Illuminates Price Premiums for U.S. Solar Home Sales Berkeley Lab

A multi-institutional research team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkley Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, universities, and appraisers found that home buyers consistently have been willing to pay more for homes with host-owned solar photovoltaic (PV) energy systems —averaging about $4 per watt of PV installed—across various states, housing and PV markets, and home types. This equates to a premium of about $15,000 for a typical PV system. The team analyzed almost 22,000 sales of homes, almost 4,000 of which contained PV systems in eight states from 1999 to 2013—producing the most authoritative estimates to date of price premiums for U.S. homes with PV systems.

“Previous studies on PV home premiums have been limited in size and scope,” says Ben Hoen, the lead author of the new report. “We more than doubled the number of PV home sales analyzed, examined a number of states outside of California, and captured the market during the recent housing boom, bust, and recovery.”

More than half a million U.S. homes had PV as of 2014, and the number is growing rapidly. The growth in home PV systems means that the real estate industry will need reliable methods to value these homes appropriately. Further, having greater certainty in those methods will likely facilitate additional growth in the residential PV market.

Once again, the market is coming down firmly in favor of solar.

 

[JimH52]

Berkeley Lab Illuminates Price Premiums for U.S. Solar Home Sales Berkeley Lab

A multi-institutional research team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkley Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, universities, and appraisers found that home buyers consistently have been willing to pay more for homes with host-owned solar photovoltaic (PV) energy systems —averaging about $4 per watt of PV installed—across various states, housing and PV markets, and home types. This equates to a premium of about $15,000 for a typical PV system. The team analyzed almost 22,000 sales of homes, almost 4,000 of which contained PV systems in eight states from 1999 to 2013—producing the most authoritative estimates to date of price premiums for U.S. homes with PV systems.

“Previous studies on PV home premiums have been limited in size and scope,” says Ben Hoen, the lead author of the new report. “We more than doubled the number of PV home sales analyzed, examined a number of states outside of California, and captured the market during the recent housing boom, bust, and recovery.”

More than half a million U.S. homes had PV as of 2014, and the number is growing rapidly. The growth in home PV systems means that the real estate industry will need reliable methods to value these homes appropriately. Further, having greater certainty in those methods will likely facilitate additional growth in the residential PV market.

Once again, the market is coming down firmly in favor of solar.

But....but.....but.....what will the Oil Companies do? Will Congress have to increase their tax breaks? Yes, I suppose they will. Gotta keep "greasing" those palms.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Berkeley Lab Illuminates Price Premiums for U.S. Solar Home Sales Berkeley Lab

A multi-institutional research team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkley Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, universities, and appraisers found that home buyers consistently have been willing to pay more for homes with host-owned solar photovoltaic (PV) energy systems —averaging about $4 per watt of PV installed—across various states, housing and PV markets, and home types. This equates to a premium of about $15,000 for a typical PV system. The team analyzed almost 22,000 sales of homes, almost 4,000 of which contained PV systems in eight states from 1999 to 2013—producing the most authoritative estimates to date of price premiums for U.S. homes with PV systems.

“Previous studies on PV home premiums have been limited in size and scope,” says Ben Hoen, the lead author of the new report. “We more than doubled the number of PV home sales analyzed, examined a number of states outside of California, and captured the market during the recent housing boom, bust, and recovery.”

More than half a million U.S. homes had PV as of 2014, and the number is growing rapidly. The growth in home PV systems means that the real estate industry will need reliable methods to value these homes appropriately. Further, having greater certainty in those methods will likely facilitate additional growth in the residential PV market.

Once again, the market is coming down firmly in favor of solar.

But....but.....but.....what will the Oil Companies do? Will Congress have to increase their tax breaks? Yes, I suppose they will. Gotta keep "greasing" those palms.

I heard oil companies get to write off typical business expenses. Bastards! LOL!

 

[Old Rocks]

Maybe if they would write off some business expenses like replacing worn out pipelines, we would not have people being killed, and miles of beach soiled by their product.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Maybe if they would write off some business expenses like replacing worn out pipelines, we would not have people being killed, and miles of beach soiled by their product.

That's an excellent idea!

 

[flacaltenn]

That wasn't an engineering statement from MIT -- It was political propaganda. Solar AT BEST works for 6 or 7 hours a day IN SOME areas. And it doesn't work at night or during storms. They have a limited service life and serve at best as a daytime PEAKING technology.

This is more TinkerBelle dust..

And as for those stomach churning numbers about "oil subsidies" -- they are counting every asphalt/bridge/infrastructure project for hiways, every energy subsidy for poor people, and payments to the oil companies for exploration on public lands. A valid SERVICE that the oil company supplies since the FEDS can't operate a shovel..

Oil company subsidies are limited to LARGELY the same kind of deductions that other industries can take on THEIR businesses..

 

[flacaltenn]

Maybe if they would write off some business expenses like replacing worn out pipelines, we would not have people being killed, and miles of beach soiled by their product.

I don't think scheduled maintenance is EVER a simple tax write-off..

 

[pwjohn]

well wonderful, they can pay for it too. you know that saying. Put their money where their mouths are

That pretty well sums it up.

 

[pwjohn]

Maybe if they would write off some business expenses like replacing worn out pipelines, we would not have people being killed, and miles of beach soiled by their product.

I don't think scheduled maintenance is EVER a simple tax write-off..

There's a difference between maintenance costs and replacement costs. Maintenance costs are usually a part of daily operating expenses while replacement costs are considered a capital expense.

 

[Old Rocks]

And what we are talking about with over 50% of the US pipelines, is replacement. Continuing the use of these worn out pipes is endangering the lives of citizens and the enviroment we live in.