The solar industry’s top lobbyist is essentially telling us all that the solar industry would lose 60 percent of its volume if it had to compete on a level playing field (or a more level one, since state tax credits would still exist in a number of states). Forbes Contributor, Jeffrey Dorfman, believes that wind, solar and geothermal energy only survived in the US because of Government subsidies that funded projects until they were large enough for economies of scale to work and the price per kilowatt hour dropped so that young companies could thrive alone. He says this is a lesson we can learn from other countries like Germany which has been able to build up its renewable power generation capacity without government subsidies. According to Dorfman, top lobbyists for the solar industry believe the industry would lose 60% of its volume without energy subsidies if it had to compete in the industry on a level playing field.
Forbes Contributor, Jeffrey Dorfman, believes that wind, solar and geothermal energy only survived in the US because of Government subsidies that funded projects until they were large enough for economies of scale to work and the price per kilowatt hour dropped so that young companies could thrive alone. He says this is a lesson we can learn from other countries like Germany which has been able to build up its renewable power generation capacity without government subsidies. According to Dorfman, top lobbyists for the solar industry believe the industry would lose 60% of its volume without energy subsidies if it had to compete in the industry on a level playing field.