"If we want to launch a solar industry here, big-time, we need to offer the kind of long-term certainty that Germany does..." The problem here is that there ar

"If we want to launch a solar industry here, big-time, we need to offer the kind of long-term certainty that Germany does..." The problem here is that there are no long-term certainties in a free-market economy. Providing energy is a competitive business and if solar energy is to grow it has to be a better choice for the consumer economically than the current alternatives at the true unsubsidized cost.