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Solar power grew faster than any other source of fuel for the first time in 2016, the International Energy Agency said in a report suggesting the technology will dominate renewables in the years ahead.
The institution established after the first major oil crisis in 1973 said 165 gigawatts of renewables were completed last year, which was two-thirds of the net expansion in electricity supply. Solar powered by photovoltaics, or PVs, grew by 50 percent, with almost half of new plants built in China.
"What we are witnessing is the birth of a new era in solar PV," Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said in a statement accompanying the report published on Wednesday in Paris. "We expect that solar PV capacity growth will be higher than any other renewable technology through 2022."
Solar Grew Faster Than All Other Forms of Power for the First Time
International Energy Agency
Solar power will only work until the sun burns out, but dinosaurs are forever.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 06 2017, @08:15AM (1 child)
Electricity bills are broken down into the kwh's you use, and the fees for distribution (paying for the grid). Generally the kwh's you use constitute the greater share of the bill. If the utilities rebalance that such that they can keep charging you a net positive for them when you produce more electricity than you use, then you have even more incentive to sever that grid tie. After all, why should you be giving the grid free power, or rather, power that you have to pay to give them?
In either case the feedback loop remains and the customers who have not yet severed their grid ties will have ever increasing incentive to do so.
The East Germans taught us all a very powerful, very fundamental lesson when they defeated an undefeatable, totally repressive system by voting with their feet and leaving for West Germany. We need to do the same with our power needs (and many other things besides), and vote with our feet. Just pick up our ball and go home.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday October 08 2017, @05:23AM
Absolutely. We've been told we need it, it was true in the past, but times and technology change. I love the community-based services I rely on here, but that's because I'm in a town centre, and I certainly wouldn't want to impose my preferences on the greater public. Those who no longer have the actual *need* for a centralised supply should indeed deshackle themselves with an appropriate amount of middle-finger waving.
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