Solar Revolution Quotes

Solar power - the costs have dramatically fallen, far faster than anyone has speculated. It's probably one of the greatest steps forward in human history.

The 100 gigawatt target for solar should not be a constraint. India won't stop at 100 GW.

I think, in a lot of places, the solar panels are a badge of honor; they're trendy. If you go to Hawaii or Japan, people even install fake solar panels because it's cool and it's popular. And so I think solar panels have gotten a lot more attractive. They're sleek, black, they look good on a roof.

The costs of solar energy across the world have come down so fast that its growth as a cheap, clean energy source has been exponential.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.

The fact that there simply is 5,000 times more sun power than our consumption needs makes me very optimistic. It's a fantastic resource. We have the ingenuity to send man to the moon, so we definitively have the ingenuity to tap the sun's resources…. The biggest challenge [for solar power] is escaping from the economic effects of vendor lock-in where large investments in nuclear and traditional energy sources keep us 'locked-in' to feeding monsters that will bring us down an economic black hole.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

Solar will outcompete other technologies.