A recent article from Bloomberg Business talks about the seven reasons you could not kill solar electricity even if you wanted to. Now granted all of these arguments were in the book Solar Power For Your Home by David Findley in my Green Guides but we digress.
The main point here is that this is a good article with great arguments. Here are two of the arguments and a section of the article.
Oil prices have fallen by more than half since July. Just five years ago, such a plunge in fossil fuels would have put the renewable-energy industry on bankruptcy watch. Today: Meh.
Here are seven reasons why humanity’s transition to cleaner energy won’t be sidetracked by cheap oil.
1. The Sun Doesn’t Compete With Oil
Oil is for cars; renewables are for electricity. The two don’t really compete.
Oil is just too expensive to power the grid, even with prices well below $50 a barrel.
Instead, solar electricity competes with coal, natural gas, hydro, and nuclear power.
Solar, the newest to the mix, makes up less than 1 percent of the electricity market today but will be the world’s biggest single source by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency. Demand is so strong that the biggest limit to installations this year may be the availability of panels.
“You couldn’t kill solar now if you wanted to,” says Jenny Chase, the lead solar analyst with Bloomberg New Energy Finance in London.
2. Electricity Prices Are Still Going Up
The real threat to renewables isn’t cheap oil; it’s cheap electricity. In the U.S., abundant natural gas has made power production exceedingly inexpensive.
So why are electricity bills still going up?
For the entire article by Bloomberg Business
