Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable

Lucas123 writes: As part of her campaign pledge, Hillary Clinton has said she would make it a priority in her first term to increase the number of solar panels by 500M and U.S. installed solar capacity from 21 gigawatts (GW) today to 140GW by the end of 2020. Her plan, is to increase solar, wind and other renewables so that they'd provide 33% of America's electricity by 2027, enough to power every home. While the plan may sound overly ambitious, experts say, it's not. Today, renewables provide about 15% of America's power. Shayle Kann, senior vice president at GTM Research, said the Clinton's renewable energy goal is doable, but with caveats. In order to achieve the goal, current programs, such as federal tax breaks for solar installations (set to expire next year), must continue and future initiatives, such as Obama's Clean Power Plan that will begin in 2018, must not be curtailed. Considering that if elected, Clinton wouldn't take office until 2017, the her campaign goals could be more bravado than reality. Clinton, however, is not alone. While most candidates have yet to announce their clean energy plans, Clinton's Democratic contender, Martin O'Malley, also came out with strong support for the end of fossil fuel use and a full clean energy economy by 2050, and creating a national goal of doubling energy efficiency within 15 years.

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Samzenpus got hit in the head this morning

[damn_registrars]

That is the only explanation for "Failure Machine" Samzenpus posting something that does not trash the democrats or actively spread conservative FUD here. Nevermind that the summary is of such awful grammar that it makes me gnash my teeth, the fact that this article somehow earned his approval may actually be a sign of the end of times (at least, for slashdot).

Let the market decide.

[Anonymous Coward]

As Reason pointed out, talk about central planning. Why not let the market decide what the best solution is instead of dictating solar panels. Could be much better solutions. Tax credits for whatever solution the home owner decides is best for their locale would be a start.