'..Solar power .. the costs of installing further capacity are steadily declining..'<blockquote>'The leading available “new energy” alternative for power generation, whether on the domestic or the macro scale, is thus solar. While the cost of solar thermal power is still around twice that of power from conventional sources, economies of scale in the manufacture of solar panels and improvements in their design are bringing that cost down fairly rapidly. Spain and Italy almost bankrupted themselves by providing over-generous subsidies to solar power generators in 2006-10, but the result has been a massive increase in solar power generation capacity. For example, Italy reached its 2020 target of 8 gigawatt-hours of capacity by the first quarter of 2011. The subsidies are being reduced, but the installed capacity will remain, and the costs of installing further capacity are steadily declining.
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..the area of solar power, we have made genuine progress towards a more sustainable energy future..'
- Martin Hutchinson,
Hegelian energy outcomes, April 25, 2011</blockquote>