Solar Energy

An easy-to-miss article in today’s NY Times (page C5) caught my eye today: “Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost.”  

Actually, though, the headline understates the point of the article.  The real news, it seems to me, is buried in the fifth paragraph: the manufacturer’s CEO “claims to be the first solar panel manufacturer to be able to profitably sell solar panels for less than one dollar a watt.  That is the price at which solar energy becomes less expensive than coal.”