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 MJ-Brutus rated 16 months ago -
From the page: "California and other states are leading the way, requiring utilities to obtain more electricity from renewable sources, thus creating by fiat a long-term market for green energy. As a result, the deserts of the Southwest have become the Saudi Arabia of solar, attracting a cr...
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- MJ-Brutus rated 16 months ago
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From the page: "California and other states are leading the way, requiring utilities to obtain more electricity from renewable sources, thus creating by fiat a long-term market for green energy. As a result, the deserts of the Southwest have become the Saudi Arabia of solar, attracting a crowd of competitors from around the world: Australia, Germany, Israel, Spain. Similar building booms are under way across Europe; even the oil sheikhdom of Abu Dhabi is going solar.
Tough challenges remain: Securing hundreds of millions of dollars in financing for untried technologies. Making solar competitive with fossil fuels. Navigating regulatory mazes. Connecting desert power stations to distant cities.
But the solar prospectors are ready and eager. Gray-haired industry veterans who toiled in obscurity for decades are having their moment in the sun. Joining them are green entrepreneurs, backed by Silicon Valley venture capital, developing a new generation of utility-scale technologies.
Unlike in the age of carbon energy, which was driven by gargantuan gas-and coal-burning power stations, there is no single solar technology or one size that fits all. As electricity distribution becomes decentralized, there's a place for 4,500-acre solar dish arrays as well as small 10-megawatt photovoltaic plug-in farms."
This is an article well worth reading.
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