Companies are now rushing to break the $2 barrier. Texas Instruments and Southern California Edison have joined forces to produce flexible solar panels from inexpensive low-grade silicon. The innovative technology will allow the panels to be integrated into car and building design and, even more important; will crash the price to $2.50 a watt.
Some of the biggest boosters of solar power are the utility companies, eager for a clean source of electricity that will enable them to produce more power without new billion-dollar plants. Both as consumers of solar technology and as the promoters of home solar panels, utilities will drive much of the industrys growth into the next century. Utilities are beginning to realize that theyre going to have to get on the solar bandwagon, says S. David Freeman, general manager of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District . If they dont and rates go up sharply, people are going to buy their own solar panels and pull the plug on the utilities. His company embraced alternative energy when rate payers voted to close its trouble nuclear facility in 1989.
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