Solar Article on Bloomberg

[Digital21]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-29/while-you-were-getting-worked-up-over-oil-prices-this-just-happened-to-solar.html

If the projections in the article hold true - future home buyers may demand and give preference to houses that have a PV system installed. It will be interesting to see how commonplace this becomes in the next two decades.

[sensij]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-1...-to-solar.html

If the projections in the article hold true - future home buyers may demand and give preference to houses that have a PV system installed. It will be interesting to see how commonplace this becomes in the next two decades.

Despite the optimism of that article, there are a couple things to keep in mind. The LCOE numbers they report are over a 20 year period. A lot of people move more frequently than that, so systems that are getting installed today might end up being a bigger benefit to the new homeowner than the one installing it. What a potential homebuyer will be willing to pay for that benefit is hard to say.

LCOE makes the most sense when used to compare building one type of generation facility with another. When used in a residential context, assumptions about the future cost of electricity from Poco are important, and not discussed in this press.

This statement is ridiculous:

It will soon undercut even the cheapest fossil fuels in many regions of the planet, including poorer nations where billion-dollar coal plants aren’t always practical.

Nobody anywhere in the world is building a solar plant over a coal plant for baseline power until solar's energy can be stored and used at night, or during a cloudy day. The LCOE of a generation and storage system still has long, long way to fall to be comparable to conventional sources.

[russ]

The article is a bit of blather mixed up with disinformation. How many places do we know of where solar PV would have grid parity with no incentives?

[Sunking]

It is a simple marketing ploy Investment firms use. If a Investment firm says it is time to buy a stock, what they really mean is they are selling because they have a huge gain on that stock and is over priced and they are cashing out before the price collapses leaving you holding the losses. If they say to get out of a stock means they are buying because the stock is undervalued and want to drive the price down some more before they snatch it all up.

Bloomberg right now is saying sell utility stocks despite that sector is gaining and growing. You want a hot stock tip buy Defense Contractor stock. It is down and with war imminent will get huge gains just before war starts and will continue until peace breaks out. Easy money.