Camden

Renewable Energy: Approaching Grid Parity?

vboring,
Your handle suits your opinion. Your comment that "solar has only achieved grid parity in terms of cost in places with massive subsidies, only according to the most idealistic assumptions, and only in places with the worst power system management" is looking at the past. If you take the time to look forward you'll see that FSLR truly IS likely to be producing massive amounts of electricity (enough for MILLIONS of homes) at prices that are comparable to oil-fired generation WITHOUT subsidies in five years or less. True, coal will be cheaper. So what. The point Mr. Hodge was making is that all energy-producing technologies will be needed and solar and other alternative technologies are likely to gain an increasingly larger piece of the market as their costs come down. On that point he is, in my opinion, undeniably correct. Those that choose to keep their heads in a dark, dusty cave are unlikely to see the light.