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Here in America renewables are being put on roofs and built by utilities nation wide. Most of this is being done privately!!!
And yes, within 5 years even natural gas will be looking up at solar!!!
Nope, its the other way around, Solar looks to Natural Gas.
Big Solar Big Gas Ivanpah s dirty power - Master Resource
Big Solar: Big Gas (Ivanpah’s ‘dirty power’)
By Wayne Lusvardi -- April 2, 2014“It has been lauded as the world’s largest solar power plant, but the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) could also be called the world’s largest gas-fired power plant (largest in physical size, not gas consumption)." Chris Clarke continues in his piece, “Ivanpah Solar Plant Owners Want to burn a Lot More Natural Gas" (KCET, March 27, 2014):Each of the 4,000-acre facility’s three units has gas-fired boilers used to warm up the fluid in the turbines in the early morning, to keep that fluid at an optimum temperature during the night, and to boost production during the day when the sun goes behind a cloud…. Solar Partners says that in order for ISEGS (Ivanpah) to operate at full efficiency, the plant's gas-fired auxiliary boilers will need to run an average of 4.5 hours a day, rather than the one hour a day originally expected. The plant's total CO2 footprint from burning natural gas would rise to just above 92,200 tons per year, approximately equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas output of 16,500 average passenger cars.