The Energy Establishment contends that renewable energy sources like solar power and wind are decades from being viable alternatives to fossil fuels. A pro-solar group One Block Off the Grid disagrees. To challenge this longstanding myth advanced by opponents of subsidies for renewable energy, the pro-solar group put together the Infographic at right.
Germany, for example, only receives 2.6% of the sunlight as the US does, but still manages to produce 60 times as much solar power. How do they do it? According to Triple Pundit, it was done through a government-introduced mechanism called a feed-in tariff (FIT) that was first initiated twenty years ago. The tariff requires utilities to connect renewable energy generators to the grid and buy the electricity produced at a rate of 65 to 90% of the retail cost. Other countries have now replicated this model.
Meanwhile, the GOP has proposed massive new cuts for renewable energy subsidies.
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