{"id":447313,"date":"2010-03-19T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=10050"},"modified":"2010-03-19T12:17:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:17:47","slug":"industry-poll-americans-bullish-on-utility-scale-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447313","title":{"rendered":"Industry poll: Americans bullish on utility-scale solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With prices down and incentives still available, more and more individuals and businesses are looking into solar panels as a way to cut down energy costs and protect the environment. According to a poll released this week, support also is growing for solar on the utility scale.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10051\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 211px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10051\" title=\"FirstSolarNRG_610x505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FirstSolarNRG_610x505.jpg\" alt=\"Image: First Solar\" width=\"201\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A utility-scale solar plant in Blythe, Calif. Image: First Solar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Solar Energy Industries Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seia.org\/\" >SEIA<\/a>) unveiled statistics gathered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamresearchgroup.com\/Gotham_Research.html\" >Gotham Research Group<\/a> that show 75 percent of those surveyed advocate the development of solar energy plans on public lands. The survey also determined that solar was the first choice as best use of public land (38 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Asked which energy sources the government should prioritize, respondents picked solar farms and wind (22 percent each), natural gas and nuclear (16 percent each), oil (11 percent) and coal (4 percent). Findings were based on polling conducted February 24-26, involving a sample of 500 American adults 18 years of age or older. The margin of error on the total sample of 500 is +\/- 4.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Americans talk about solar energy, they usually envision rooftop systems, which are great. But it\u2019s important to also realize the significant role that utility-scale solar has to play,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/giffords.house.gov\/\" >Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords<\/a> (D-AZ), who joined a conference call to announce the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarge solar installations use economies of scale to achieve significant cost savings and help Americans to get the most solar \u2018bang for the buck.\u2019 It\u2019s great to confirm that the rest of America is just as excited about utility solar as we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the SEIA, five new pilot plants came on line in 2009 and more than 100 utility-scale solar projects are under development. The group estimates that projects represent more than 17 gigawatts of capacity, enough to provide clean power to 3.4 million households and to create more than 100,000 jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports With prices down and incentives still available, more and more individuals and businesses are looking into solar panels as a way to cut down energy costs and protect the environment. According to a poll released this week, support also is growing for solar on the utility scale. A utility-scale solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}