Solar Catalyst Group Outlines 10 Year Plan

For Immediate Release March 1, 2005
REPORT PROPOSES AGGRESSIVE PLAN TO REGAIN U.S. LEADERSHIP IN MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR SOLAR PV MARKET

Solar Catalyst Group Outlines Ten-Year Public-Private Partnership to Create Jobs, Economic Opportunity, and Energy Security

Washington D.C./San Francisco, Calif. – A new report, by Co-op America’s Solar Catalyst Group and Clean Edge, Inc., proposes a three-pronged federal program to regain American leadership in the high-growth global solar photovoltaic (PV) industry. If enacted, the plan would create up to 580,000 new American jobs and generate up to 9 percent of the country’s total electricity needs by 2025, the equivalent of serving over 48 million American homes with secure, safe, clean energy.
The Solar High-Impact National Energy (SHINE) Project, unveiled today, offers a “man on the moon” vision to rapidly and dramatically transform solar energy into a job-creating, energy-security-enhancing domestic energy source. The report outlines a ten-year plan to aggressively push solar PV over the tipping point — making solar cost-effective for businesses, homeowners, industry, and utilities far faster than current, business-as-usual trends.

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