News Innovative Solar Power Initiatives and Business Models

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Innovative Solar Power Initiatives and Business Models - Market Research Reports - Research and Markets

The 1st Edition of the 'Innovative Solar Power Initiatives and Business Models' report is a 40-page overview of the new methods that are being used to increase the installation of solar power systems by end-users.

The utility industry has typically used rebates and production incentives to encourage end-users to install solar power. To date, these early programs have proven to be insufficient at spurring significant growth in solar power. However, innovative utility initiatives are being implemented to reduce the two biggest barriers to solar power installation – high upfront cost and long payback period. In addition, new players are entering the market in the form of private businesses and governments. These entities are working directly with end-users to reduce these barriers and ramp-up the installation of solar power systems.

I can remember very clearly some of the future-minded scientific articles on the future of solar energy, which I used to read in the 1980s. It was all so easy for the writers of these articles to conclude that the future would definitely involve the scrapping of fossil fuels in favour of environmentally-friendly solar energy systems. Now, I guess I want to say that this future is now. But that would make me terribly mistaken. - Why? Because of all these solid barriers that are stood between the antique oil age and the modern solar age of which I am dreaming.