Here is a video that gives a pretty compelling reason why solar will be competitive with grid power in as little as three years. This means you could install solar panels and finance the purchase then have your monthly payment be less that what you are paying the electric company. Add some more panels, buy an electric car or plug in hybrid and virtually eliminate your automobile fuel costs as well. This is the future!

Here is Charlie Gay from Applied Materials explaining why his company has just made a $500 million dollar investment in developing a machine that can crank out 20 solar panels per hour. This 500 ton machine is now being shipped to solar manufacturers all over the world. With the cost of solar set to drop by 50% in the next 3 years, the addressable market will grow to over $1 trillion dollars.