More than 240 different prices paid for those who feed in solar energy (source: Handelsblatt). Financial promises made to investors in the solar industry over 20 years at a total sum in the multi-billion range. Whoever feels like it can feed in energy at a fixed price which, according to economic theory, must cause a surplus. Simultaneously, those who feed in cheaply are now forced out of competition. Consequently, they, too, have to be subsidized.
Electrical energy gets so expensive that they now have to start thinking about compensatory money. One measure influencing the market is followed by the next. We are now in the desperate situation of a central planning economy without owning the glass ball of omniscience.
At the same time as this planning economy takes place, technological progress is being pigeonholed – the many bankruptcies in the solar industry tell their own story.
Is there a chance for solar energy? I think yes. It is very simple: stop all subsidies and re-establish the market economy.
Will that mean the end of solar technology? No way! Latest developments show that solar energy can actually be produced based on polymer solar cells. OLED technology in energy production. As I see it, the current cost for the products will be around 15% of what Si-based solar cells cost.
Organic solar cell-based printing methods for producing solar energy will be something you can use in a totally different way when constructing buildings and making them energy-autonomous.
http://www.solarserver.de/solarmagazin/solar-report_0807.html is an interesting source if you wish to read about the development on this extremely fast-growing technological sector. In the future, we will be able to weave solar panels, then print them and install them at proper places. And it might all happen at perhaps 10% of what it costs now. For the economists among us who believe in planning, this is definitely a reason to come up with a new legislation:
Every citizen must take a certain amount of energy from the network in order not to make the EEG a failure?
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(Translated by EG)
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