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Solar energy is the most abundant energy and it is free to all. Solar provides us with light and warmth. It provides the energy for all plant growth. It should be harness by individuals for their homes. If energy is free from the Sun, why must we pay for our electricity?
Power-generating companies, Government, and International organizations (IEA) in the field of energy and power, have not base their development strategies on Solar. In fact solar is the energy they least would invest. Florida Power and Light (FPL) now generates less than 1% of its energy from thermal solar. FPL in their 2008-17 Power Plant Site Plan, has schedule considerable growth in capacity to generate electricity, but very little growth will come from solar energy. Although FPL's plan does not commit to anything.
The Solar American Initiative from the US Department of Energy (USDOE) focuses on thermal Solar to power up big plants using steam. They do not have a strategy for solar power generation for homes, nor do they spend the time in discussing this technology. They do however, lead everyone to believe that the home technology is based on photovoltaic panels, which compete poorly against current electricity suppliers.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) analyzes all energy sources, but they never emphasize the need to develop solar home power generation, when this would provide everyone the independence they would need. IEA approach is to reduce fossil fuels and into more renewable energy, without solar as a central energy source. Of course, IEA interests, is to protect foreign oil supplies, maintain the world's oil stockpile for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country members, and to steer countries to develop other centralized power generating sources.
Protecting their turf, large power-generating companies prefer renewable and non-renewable energy sources, including solar, but never, the solar which could be scaled down to the home level. It really doesn't matter how much they could be damaging the planet or creating matter which could later hurt people like nuclear waste. All that matters is to maintain their way of life. They will spend millions into advertisement and lobbying to get everyone to agree to their solution, like the “Clean Coal” option, or “America's Coolest Clean Fuel” for Liquid Natural Gas, or Nuclear which is “Non Gas emitting” and therefore safe to use. Apparently, these companies do not evolve, changing their business into something that is sustainable is not part of their lemma.
Why is it that Solar power generating technology is available, but ignored? As if this technology was inadequate for its use. Some of these institutions may include solar in their plans, but only geared to develop big huge plants and continue using their central electrical power grids. Including Solar in their energy source menu, helps their PR departments to show them as a good environmental steward, that they are on top of energy solutions, hopefully luring more investors, getting politicians on board, discouraging other energy generating entrants and defusing the home solar power generation threat.
Developing a home appliance that harnesses electricity from the sun, turns all centralized power generation obsolete, and this must be avoided by all means by current market players. If home solar technology is allowed to develop, then anyone, anywhere in the world would be able to generate the power they need without the very high and steep billion dollar investments required for centralized power. Then, centralized power proponents will loose; big business would lose; big government agencies and international agencies may not be required to exists. Imagine the loss of orders which we don't have, if Kenya in Africa or any other country in the world, would buy small solar power generation gear instead of the large nuclear reactor o LNG plant. What happens to those countries, and to us when we freed up energy generation?
Institutions dedicated to power-generation, power research and regulator institutions are the current major proponents of the products, services and regulations that proliferate the current centralized power generation model. Government programs are ineffective and guiding the home power generation market towards inefficient and expensive Photocells systems. A Photovoltaic Panel 4 kilowatt system for a home cost 41,000 dollars. Of course, the state and federal tax credits and incentives may bring down the homeowners final cost to 12,000. The final $12,000 USD investments can be offset by obtaining saving from the electric utility bills, at a rate of $1,500 a year, getting your money back is 8 years.
We need a new breed of entrepreneurs and government, not currently related to the current Power generation model, to approach the home solar power appliance, and manufacture the technology that could be sold through major home appliance retailer like Sears, Home Depot Lowe's. Distributed Power generation and the elimination of the the centralized electricity distribution model is the way of the future, regardless of how much FPL, DOE, the IEA would like to hide it. This new model, which could finally integrated by Americans or any other nationality, placing all people of the world in equal footing. China and India would not need to invest so heavily into Nuclear and Fossil fuel plants to endanger our plants.
