Solar Energy Claims — Full RLM Output

2008-02-05 Solar technology costs should be reduced through public investment similar to how microchip costs were reduced

Fast, Clean, and Cheap · source

Listed as policy recommendation #5: 'Buy Down the Price of Solar Technology Like We Did With Microchips' — suggests solar can follow a successful cost-reduction model

2008-04-09 Solar industry will make plenty of money for itself without major public investments

Romm vs. Expert Consensus on Energy Technology · source

Author's view that solar companies can be profitable independently, but questions whether this alone can achieve necessary scaling

2009-04-07 A breakthrough in solar photovoltaics that reduces costs to one-fifth would make solar competitive without subsidies

Is Joe Romm an Energy Challenge Denier? · source

Secretary Chu discussed a potential breakthrough scenario where cost reductions would eliminate the need for subsidies and enable widespread deployment

2009-05-07 Solar investments became hot, even for oil companies

The Green Bubble, Why Environmentalism Keeps Imploding · source

During the 2006-2009 green cultural moment following 'An Inconvenient Truth,' solar energy attracted significant investment interest from traditional oil companies

2010-12-10 Nuclear power and wind power are examples of successful American innovations from public-private partnerships

Where Good Technologies Come From · source

Listed among case studies of technological achievements enabled by collaboration between government and private sector

2013-07-09 Solar has increased its contribution to consumption by a factor of 100 from 1999 to 2012

Clean Energy Stagnation · source

Despite growth, solar remains at about 1 percent of total global energy consumption and is dwarfed by the resurgence of coal

2016-12-16 Uganda is positioning itself to be a regional leader in solar irrigation

Revolution in Africa · source

Cited as a concrete example of African nations adopting solar technology for agricultural irrigation purposes

2018-06-26 Wind and solar had a record year, with non-hydro renewables adding over 300 TWh of annual electricity generation

BP's Annual Energy Rorschach Test · source

BP's 2017 energy data showed renewables advocates could trumpet another record year for wind and solar deployment

2020-12-29 Solar deployment is accelerating as part of the global energy transition

After the Pandemic: Hope and Breakthroughs for 2021 · source

Article mentions clean energy deployment incentives being extended in COVID relief package

2025-12-01 The world can be powered predominantly with variable renewable energy

Breaking Things at Breakthrough · source

Author lists this as an idea that Breakthrough has creatively destroyed/rejected as part of intellectual evolution

2008-02-05 Clean energy sources currently have a vast price gap compared to fossil fuels

Fast, Clean, and Cheap · source

Stated as a fundamental constraint on carbon pricing effectiveness and emissions reductions

2008-04-09 Solar won't constitute a Princeton emission 'wedge' without massive investment

Romm vs. Expert Consensus on Energy Technology · source

Without substantial public investment, solar cannot reach the 700-fold increase needed to meet climate stabilization targets

2009-04-07 Current solar photovoltaics are about a factor of five higher in cost than electricity generation by gas or coal without subsidy

Is Joe Romm an Energy Challenge Denier? · source

Secretary Chu stated solar PV costs approximately five times more than gas or coal-generated electricity

2009-04-07 Current solar panel efficiency is insufficient and would need to be tripled to meet energy needs

Is Joe Romm an Energy Challenge Denier? · source

Department of Energy concluded that breakthroughs 'beyond our present reach' are needed to triple the efficiency of solar panels

2013-05-28 Misleading claims are being made about solar's readiness

Planetary Emergency? Then Go Nuclear · source

"Misleading claims about solar's readiness might be excused as the exaggerations of enthusiasts"

2014-09-15 Two hundred Shams 1 solar arrays would be needed to equal the output of four Barakah nuclear reactors

Saudi Arabia Fast-Tracks to Nuclear · source

Demonstrates solar's lower efficiency density compared to nuclear

2015-11-12 Solar could be a huge bubble as technology and price change

India — Re-Energized · source

Assessment of the Indian private sector being over-invested in renewables, specifically regarding solar energy volatility

2020-05-05 Wind and solar energy are highly extractive, dependent upon mining and processing of toxic rare earth minerals

Decarbonization and its Discontents · source

Critiques the extractive environmental impacts of solar development that contradict environmental movement principles

2021-02-22 Solar and wind technologies cannot effectively decarbonize the entire economy — or even the power sector — alone

What New Net-Zero Studies Tell Us · source

Solar and wind must be combined with advanced nuclear, carbon capture, geothermal, and hydrogen to achieve net-zero

2025-11-18 Trump administration has attacked solar and wind energy

The Fall of Permitting Reform · source

Democrats' concern that permitting reform might not protect renewable energy due to partisan hostility