State of Solar Power

Unless your state gives you a substantial rebate for installing a solar panel system on your home, it's still too expensive.

From SmartE:

Where I live in Tennessee is listed at the high end of "good" on the "solar scale" of available solar energy. But a 3 or 4 kW system that costs $40K or so will only generate about $35 per month worth of electricity. That's a payback of about 95 years!

And large solar projects for regional use? Enviromentalists are waving a large stop sign.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

The Bureau of Land Management says the moratorium on solar proposals is needed to determine how a new generation of large-scale projects could affect plants and wildlife on the land it manages.

Unbelievable.