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CO-OP AMERICA

By: Jane Munroe

A published from Co-op America, provides a robust roadmap for electric utilities to accelerate the growth of solar energy. Incorporating the latest technology, market, and policy breakthroughs and interviews with key industry players and experts, it shows how a coordinated effort among regulators, the solar industry, and utilities can enable solar to reach 10 percent of U.S. electricity generation by 2025. At present, the combination of solar photovoltaic’s (rooftop systems turning sunlight into electricity) and concentrating solar power (utility-scale installations that harness sunlight to create steam to run generators) contribute only 0.06% of total U.S. electricity generation.

02 July 2008 1 comments
 

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Bill Cassidy

2008-07-03 10:19:50

Despite the world’s droughts and floods the news reports are all about business of green. I am impressed with the Utility Solar Assessment (USA) Study, making the case that solar power has the potential to reach cost parity with retail-electricity rates in most regions of the U.S. in less than a decade — but only if electric utilities step up to the plate.

 
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