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Why on earth would “governments need to regulate and subsidise” a solar boom that is already proceeding apace without them? The tail end of this article makes n

• forgetfreeman 2y ago
  Among other things it beats handing the treasury to oligarchs.
• itishappy 2y ago
  Previous paragraph has more info: > A world that mostly runs on solar power will also need something else—such as hydropower, nuclear, or geothermal—to generate energy when the sun isn’t shining in the evenings and winters. Jessika Trancik, an MIT professor who models clean-energy development, told me that governments need to steer investments toward storage and alternate forms of energy to compensate for that inherent downtime. That way, the world can have a reliable energy mix when 50 or 60 percent of electricity generation comes from solar and wind. I'd expect that the solar subsidies mentioned by the last paragraph are for solar-adjacent technologies like energy storage, not the panels themselves.
• LunaSea 2y ago
  Because the current deployment is already the result of subsidies and that it wouldn't have happened without?