The question you should ask yourself to know if solar energy is expensive.

1. Solar energy,
is it expensive ?
Christophe Parot
Lapis University
March, 2014.

2. Is solar energy expensive ?
To know if solar energy is expensive, you
have to know the price of the other
sources of energy for the next 10, 15 or
20 years.

3. Is solar energy expensive ?
When you invest into a power plant, the
investment is for 15 to 20 years.

4. Is solar energy expensive ?
You have to compare the profitability rate
of the different investments.

5. Is solar energy expensive ?
You compute the LCOE:
Leverage Cost of Energy
LCOE article on Wikipedia

6. Is solar energy expensive ?
The installation costs for solar energy are
wellknown.

7. Is solar energy expensive ?
The production of electricity is stable from
one year to the next, with a small
decrease of 1 % every 2 years

8. Is solar energy expensive ?
So you can compute the cost of solar
energy from 2014 to 2034.
But you cannot compute the cost of
electricity produce from fossil fuel from
2014 to 2034.

9. Is solar energy expensive ?
Fossile fuels have many disavantages :

They pollute

There quantity are limited

Reserves are dicreasing

10. Is solar energy expensive ?
The cost of fossil fuel is increasing.
But nobody knows how much it is going to
increase.

11. Is solar energy expensive ?
The estimates show that energy
production will be insuffisant

12. Is solar energy expensive ?
We have to replace fossil fuel by
renewable energies

13. Is solar energy expensive ?
Wind energy can provide 50 % of our
needs
Solar energy can provide 30 % of our
needs
Hydro electricity can provide 10 %
Biomass and other renewables can
provide 10 %

14. Is solar energy expensive ?
10 benefits of solar energy

15. Is solar energy expensive ?
You can create your business and develop
solar energy

16. Is solar energy expensive ?
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Christophe Parot
Lapis University
March, 2014.