Jennifer DeCesaro of the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)
said she liked showing a map of U.S. insolation
outside the U.S. southwest because
then she could point out that
Spain has not as good resources and a larger solar market,
while Germany, the world leader in deployed solar,
has solar resources like the state of Alaska.
So the U.S. has plenty of solar energy everywhere.
She made a few other comparisons between U.S. and Germany.
U.S.: 30% investment tax credit.
Germany: National Feed-in Tariff.
She talked about
SunShot: the Apollo mission of our time.
It aims to reduce solar costs by 75% by the end of the decade,
making solar cost-competitive with fossil fuels without subsidy.
Actual panels cost about the same in U.S. and Germany,
but the rest