Time to dust off the WSJ predictions.
AP (9/8/21) reports: "Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation’s electricity within 15 years — a 10-fold increase over current solar output, but one that would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in federal investment to modernize the nation’s electric grid, a new federal report says. The report by the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy says the United States would need to quadruple its annual solar capacity — and continue to increase it year by year — as it shifts to a renewable-dominant grid in order to address the existential threat posed by climate change. The report released Wednesday is not intended as a policy statement or administration goal, officials said. Instead, it is 'designed to guide and inspire the next decade of solar innovation by helping us answer questions like: How fast does solar need to increase capacity and to what level?' said Becca Jones-Albertus, director of the Energy Department’s solar energy technologies office."
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"It's a far more preferable path to let the free-market decide these things rather than have the heavy hand of government dictate a forced transformation that will have significant detrimental effects on our economy and on the world-wide economy, as well as the environment."
– David Callahan,
Marcellus Shale Coalition
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