How anyone can oppose solar energy production is beyond me. It’s cheap and getting cheaper (especially when you consider the cost of dismantling a facility such as San Onofre).

we read & write about this stuff every day. we’ve looked at the numbers and keep up with them obsessively. it seems you have a clear agenda. but if you’re genuinely interested in learning, we actually have 4 articles in response to the Foc & Friends clip, tackling different matters of the segment. please see:
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/08/fox-news-fails-big-time-on-solar-subsidies/
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/09/germany-solar-power-lessons/
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/09/germany-has-more-solar-power-because-everyone-wins/

Read this 2009 article from the conservative Economist…

http://www.economist.com/node/13527440

Solar is lowering the wholesale cost of electricity in Germany. Those lower prices are not being passed on to retail customers. The wholesale price drops created by solar far exceed any renewable energy tax.

Read this. It’s from a conservative publication.

http://www.economist.com/node/13527440

2. Solar has reduced the wholesale price of electricity in Germany. Those wholesale price reductions have not been passed on to retail customers.

Remember what you read in the Economist article.

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I’ll bet you won’t read the article. Let me bring the important pieces to you. Remember this was written in 2009, before Germany had installed a lot of renewables. And before Germany decided to shut down nuclear in 2011.

“The competition regulator is trying to work out why energy prices in Europe’s biggest economy are so stubbornly high, and in some cases still rising, even though oil and gas prices have fallen sharply. It suspects that generators may have been keeping prices artificially high by, for instance, shutting power stations in concert to limit supplies.”

“The first sign that the market is not working is in Germany’s electricity prices, which are among the highest in Europe, even though it has access to abundant cheap coal.”

“The main reason Germany’s electricity market is not working as it should is the lack of competition.”

“A second problem is that Germany’s biggest electricity generators also own the networks that distribute electricity. Critics argue that this gives them a huge advantage over independent producers, which may struggle to gain access to the networks fairly….”

And this little jewel at the end of the article…

“And over the longer run, ambitious plans to increase the share of electricity from renewable sources may erode the dominance of the country’s four biggest electricity generators. Germany hopes to get as much as 30% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, and although few in the industry think the target will be met”

Germany got 26% of its electricity in 2012. They’ll likely hit the 2020 mark seven years early.

“We again see prices rise from the early morning to about 8 or 9am, but then look at what happens when the sun (and its 25 GW of power capacity from solar panels) kick in — the price drops off a cliff, diving even deeper than the price of electricity in the dead of night!”

You really need to look at the pretty pictures in this article.

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/23/german-solar-bringing-down-price-of-afternoon-electricity-big-time-more-charts-facts/#R5sl3RdYCZgZedlS.99

And this one…

(A) recent study by Germany’s Institute for Future Energy Systems (IZES), conducted on behalf of of the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar), has found that, on average, solar power has reduced the price of electricity 10% in Germany (on the EPEX exchange). It reduces prices up to 40% in the early afternoon, when electricity demand is peaking and electricity typically costs the most.”

Solar reduces electricity price by 40% in early afternoons and by 10% overall.

I’ll bet that’s not what Fox has told, er, misinformed you.

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/09/solar-pv-reducing-price-of-electricity-in-germany/#4g3wlHu4Q70AkCc8.99

New nuclear – at least $0.12/kWh. That does not include subsidies.

New coal – at least $0.12/kWh. That does not include external costs which run more than $0.10/kWh, so over $0.22/kW.

Old coal – actually if you add in what we pay in tax dollars and health insurance costs to treat those who get ill from coal pollution we pay around $0.20/kWh. Then there are the ~13,000 Americans who die each year from coal pollution illnesses.

New solar – we’ve just seen a purchase agreement signed for $0.0579/kW which includes about $0.05/kWh in subsidies, so $0.11/kWh.

New wind – $0.06/kWh. Add in transmission and it rises to $0.09/kWh.

New natural gas – $0.06/kWh. But those prices won’t hold, NG is temporarily cheap.

I lined them up from most expensive to least expensive for you.

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Germany’s high electricity prices are not caused by renewables nor by Germany closing down nuclear plants. Germany had high electricity prices back before renewables and closing nuclear became issues.

Germany’s high electricity prices come from the lack of competition. Here’s an article from the conservative Economist, written in 2009.

http://www.economist.com/node/13527440

Funny thing is happening in Germany right now. Solar on the grid is making midday wholesale electricity on sunny days as cheap or cheaper than late night electricity.

But the utility companies are not passing those savings on to their customers.

http://www.ecpartners.com/principals.aspx

Not saying that this directly affects what she says, but is worth noting