Two billion homes could be free from escalating electricity costs
"Two billion households worldwide could realistically be powered by solar energy by 2025, according to a joint report launched today by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) and Greenpeace (1). The report concludes that thanks to advances in technology, increasing competition and investment in production facilities, solar power has now become a serious contender in the electricity market; able to provide low-cost, clean, CO2 emission free energy. "The report also concludes that the global photovoltaic (PV) industry could potentially create more than 2 million jobs by 2040 plus a cut in annual CO2 emissions of 350 million tonnes (2) - equivalent to 140 coal power plants – by 2025, and become the energy of choice for consumers ..."
Greenpeace
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Pip Wilson posted item above at 3:36 PM | Permalink
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We have no choice, now in Australia but to demand from our representative that they launch a feasibility study in solar energy as the Howard government did for nuclear energy. We must force them to explore and finance research in solar power (at the risk, for them, of relinquishing their own power through loss of monopoly of energy production). Our very survival is at stake.
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