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<\/a>implementation and its role in fighting climate change. Even IPCC is now acknowledging the same with its most recent 5th<\/sup> report putting solar energy as the most important factor in reducing carbon emissions from electricity.<\/p>\nSolar energy<\/a> <\/strong>has become the most important factor in reducing carbon emission in recent years, as more and more of gigawatts of solar energy capacity is being put up every year. The costs of solar electricity has declined to around 10c\/watt from around 40c\/watt five years ago. Given the adverse effects of fossil fuel power, pollution concerns and energy security issues, solar power is already a no brainer and many major countries are going the whole hog. Japan, China <\/strong>and USA<\/strong> which are the 3 biggest economies have seen 50-100% growth in solar energy installations in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n Solar energy<\/strong> is already contributing 20-40%<\/em><\/strong> of all new energy additions to the grid in the major countries, as coal<\/a>, natural gas<\/a> and nuclear power<\/a> lose out due to their dirty nature, high prices and disaster risks. Wind power is also getting saturated and its prices are not falling as fast as solar energy. One of the main drivers is the use of rooftop solar energy which does not require the use of an electricity transmission and distribution system.\u00a0 Also many developing countries lack electricity grid access to major chunks. This means that they can bypass the fossil fuels to directly give electricity access through solar energy systems. Solar panels have become a commodity and can be quickly installed at low costs in most parts of the world now. The ease of installation, 25 years of fixed costs and its pro-green nature will mean that solar energy will become more and more important in saving mankind from the climate change<\/strong><\/a> disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Solar Energy can fight Climate Change We at Greenworldinvestor have always been very bullish about the prospects of solar energy growth, given the sharply declining costs, [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-solar-renewable-energy-greeninvest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}