A group of experts lays out a sprawling plan for reforming policy support and trade practices for solar.
The quest to make solar energy a major source of the world’s
electricity will not succeed if national policies and industries compete as
though it is a zero-sum game.
That is just one of many findings of The New Solar System, a sprawling report released earlier
this week by Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and
Finance, a joint research center that includes the university’s business and
law schools. The result of two years of work -- including interviews with
dozens of government officials and industry executives in China and the U.S. --
the report sketches out a future where the scale of solar depends on
self-interested cooperation.
