Too funny. One of the larger solar plants operating in a sun-drenched desert and built using a Federal loan (at below market rates) recently asked for a half-a-billion dollar grant to help pay off the loan. This same solar plant is producing less than 50% of the promised energy output, also asked for permission to burn more gas in order to keep it's turbines running during the day.
Despite this solar plant being 5 square miles in size, when and if it ever produces energy at full capacity it will only be able to provide power to 170,000 homes - but remember that this is only during reasonably bright daylight hours - at night they have to of course use gas to keep their turbines running.
I can't wait until they build one of these in Ohio