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"General Electric's Chief Engineer predicted grid parity without subsidies in sunny parts of the United States by around 2015. Other companies predict an earlier date:[83] the cost of solar power will be below grid parity for more than half of residential customers and 10% of commercial customers in the OECD, as long as grid electricity prices do not decrease through 2010.[79]"

In a field which is fast moving predictions made 5 years in advance 4 years ago should be updated as to whether they are on track.

The implementation of solar power through Feed In Tariffs has caused a majority of UK installations to face south causing a significant peak of available power between 11am and 2pm or so rather than better distributed throughout the day, and therefore less useful in reducing need for conventional power stations. The network not having been intended to be used with distributed generation can have problems on account of high voltages experienced when the sun is shining.

These issues arguably should be addressed in the context of Wikipedia's lead as the source of authoritative information. Dollist (talk) 19:35, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

kWh

Comment is invited at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Proposal on the question of whether kWh (with no space and no dot) is an acceptable unit symbol for use in articles, as opposed to restricting the choices to kW·h or kW h (i.e. with either a space or a dot). EEng (talk) 22:47, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

SolaRoad, world's first PV bike path

Calling PV enthusiasts and interested eds, please expand SolaRoad! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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At the end of the forecasts paragraph, add In 2015, analysts predicted that one million homes in the US will have solar power by the end of 2016. ^[1] Wild Irish Rose 2 (talk) 21:56, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 22:07, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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^ Justin Worland; April 4, 2016; "After years of torrid growth, residential solar power faces serious growing pains"; Time; volume 187, No. 12, page 24;

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[1] Justin Worland; April 4, 2016; "After years of torrid growth, residential solar power faces serious growing pains"; Time; volume 187, No. 12, page 24;

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