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You may have heard that solar energy accounts for much less than 1% of our portfolio of energy resources in the United States, hardly enough to make a dent in our voracious appetite for energy. For many commentators, solar energy continues to deserve government support so that it becomes a mainstay in our energy portfolio. And then there are the naysayers who say that solar is already getting more than its fair share of precious governmental resources and they will try to impose barriers to the continued expansion of solar. The stellar growth in solar is in part attributable to the very low baseline. You have huge growth because solar is makes up so little of what we use. Even with continued growth in the solar sector, coal is not going away. Even to be compared with coal and nuclear means that solar now has come of age. And like any new industry, solar will continue to attract the wrath of those who perceive it as a threat to their pocketbooks.
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