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Source: New Energy Finance website
With higher energy costs occupying everybody’s thoughts nowadays, politicians are singing the praises of renewables into increasingly receptive ears.
Former US Vice President Al Gore challenged the nation to become not just more reliant on renewables, but 100% reliant. And not by 2050, but within a decade.
The goal was surely laughed down in some quarters as unattainable. After all, US wind power, which contributes the lion’s share of the nation’s clean energy, represents only a tiny sliver of the country’s overall power supply.
But Gore rejected the idea that his goal is unrealistic. He noted that rising oil prices have made renewables more cost competitive than ever. He added that PV system costs were declining as well, saying that the per-kilogramme cost of processed silicon for use in PV cells has dropped from recent highs of USD 300 to USD 50 a kilogramme.
“Our success depends on our willingness as a people to undertake this journey and to complete it within 10 years,” said Gore, invoking President John F. Kennedy’s call in 1961 to put a man on the moon in 10 years. “Once again, we have an opportunity to take a giant leap for humankind.”
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