> 1. It's the only form of power with direct electricty generation. There's no heating water to turn a turbine; > 2. Solar basically has no moving parts. You c

> 1. It's the only form of power with direct electricty generation. There's no heating water to turn a turbine; > 2. Solar basically has no moving parts. You can point panels towards the Sun to increase efficiency but the panel itself and transmission has no moving parts; This is kind of it's own problem, the fact that both solar and wind don't have moving parts that are directly connected to the grid and rotate at grid frequency necessitates a lot of other equipment to bring frequency stability back. Some old power plants are being converted into synchronous condensers - the turbines replaced with giant flywheels - for this reason.