Energy Security

[Firn]

The good news are that PV is a generator for which global installation doubles in less than four years, from 1% to 32% takes only 5 doubling steps, i.e. 20 years. And there are no real bottlenecks for required materials.

Installation and O&M are more or less low tech for PV, so no real problem for a wider distribution.

Wind power is more tricky as installation and O&M is sometimes more on the high tech side, however, with huge potential in developed countries and some of the developing countries I see a real impact in PV and wind power.

I fully agree with you and the basic logic is hard to deny. PV is booming for very good reasons, having become ever more cost-efficient per watt surprisingly quickly.




From Bloomberg's article: California Just Had a Stunning Increase in Solar and good chunk comes from mighty Berkshire. In addition to the utility numbers 'In small-scale solar, capacity for another 2.3 gigawatts has been installed'. Not bad at all...