The conversations about big government and government subsidies to renewable energy certainly need to contain considerations of all the fossil fuel subsides around the world.



Fossil Fuel Subsidies Six Times More Than Renewable Energy (Bloomberg):

Fossil-fuel consumers worldwide received about six times more government subsidies than were given…

There has been a very rapid expansion in the solar industry. The industry is struggling to cut costs and become more efficient, and some growing pains are inevitable. As the price of solar panels has fallen, consolidation and a few failures have already happen and there will be more. For long-term alternative energy growth this is not all a bad thing.  Hopefully, the strong will survive and become even more efficient. …

Solar Costs May Already Rival Coal, Spurring Installation

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Venture funding for clean technology grew 13 percent to $2.57 billion in the first quarter with 159 announced deals, according to the San Francisco-based consulting company Cleantech Group LLC. The largest share went to solar power related companies, for a total of $641 million in capital, and the largest to a single company to BrightSource Energy Inc, a developer of solar fields…