Comments on: Summer Solstice Solar Survey: Consumers Around the World Think Their Country Has the Most Solar Power Installed

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:23:00 +0000

ironic situation, eh?

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:21:00 +0000

jeez, 15% of demand! wow. need to do a full article on the situation there someday…

any interest in writing one up, actually?

if so, you could actually shoot me an email at zach@importantmedia.org (or just comment here again and i should see it)

no pressure though, just checking

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:18:00 +0000

not sure. their assumptions must be on the optimistic side more — haven’t seen anyone else put so many countries at grid parity this year.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:17:00 +0000

no idea. always wonder that with such info. normally, the years used are far too few. but these folks seem to have much sooner grid parity estimates, so they might be using 30 or even more. not sure though.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:14:00 +0000

would bet that most people don’t know what MWs are.

By: Jennelle

Jennelle — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:51:00 +0000

Solar power can change the world no matter which country get there first or fastest. Did you know Australia is holding a Cleantech Open for Clean-techs innovators looking to make a difference in the world?
Cleantechs can sign up here http://www.cleantechopen.com.au/enter.html

By: Bill_Woods

Bill_Woods — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:23:00 +0000

“All countries in blue are expected to have hit solar grid parity by the end of 2012.”

You may want to knock at least one of those countries back off the map. At least, I hear the midday price of power is far below the cost of solar in Germany.
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/23/german-solar-bringing-down-price-of-afternoon-electricity-big-time-more-charts-facts/

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Domestic solar water heating is promoted here a fair bit with grants. With the costs of PV installation coming down it would be nice to see the adoption of solar electric promoted too.

By: Ronald Brak

Ronald Brak — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:52:00 +0000

I will mention that retail price parity is all that is needed for solar to take off in a big way. My state had very little solar capacity installed two years ago and today at noon solar will supply about 15% of our electricity demand.

By: Ronald Brak

Ronald Brak — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:48:00 +0000

I presume it is retail prices parity as solar has hit and shot past retail parity in Australia, but has yet to reach grid parity because of our champion low wholesale electricity rates. (Unfortunately wholesale rates are low for a bad reason. Our electricity sector uses huge amounts of cheap to extract coal.)

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:46:00 +0000

I was wonder that also. There is consumer parity (many still pay a flat rate) and then there is corp peak (2,3, or 4) these peak rates are much higher. Since solar peak very close to peak demand, the corp peak parity chart would cover a much bigger area than the consumer parity chart.

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:03:00 +0000

Is this retail price parity. Even Ireland and GB? In Ireland our national strategy totally ignores Solar

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:58:00 +0000

So what life span for the panels was used to calculate the blue area. The number of years (20/25/30/35/40) greatly impacts the area. Not to mention the assumed rate or grid electric cost growth.

By: Amy Bowman

Amy Bowman — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:28:00 +0000

sigh – if only they were all right. I wonder many MWs people thought were needed to be number one?