{"id":1715,"date":"2018-06-27T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/ets\/?post_type=xen_episodes&p=1715"},"modified":"2020-09-07T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T22:34:27","slug":"episode-72-future-of-solar","status":"publish","type":"xen_episodes","link":"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/ets\/episodes\/episode-72-future-of-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"[Episode #72] \u2013 The Future of Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cost of solar has dropped so quickly that we\u2019re suddenly in a world nobody really anticipated. Utility power procurement is having to pivot to solar under $0.03\/kWh\u2026including dispatchable<\/em> solar with storage, displacing not just coal and nuclear, but natural gas power plants, which everyone assumed we would continue building for decades to come.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s next for solar? Are we ready to phase out its incentives? Do we still need solar advocacy? And are we at risk of solar becoming so cheap that even solar developers can no longer afford to build it? Does the sun actually need to be tamed?<\/p>\n

Our guest in this episode has a unique point of view on these issues. Adam Browning is the co-founder and Executive Director of Vote Solar, a non-profit advocacy organization in the US with the mission of bringing solar energy into the mainstream, and he knows the history and the current prospects of solar better than most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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