Electricity Quote by Michael Shellenberger

Humankind has never transitioned to energy sources that are more costly, less reliable, and have a larger environmental footprint than the incumbent - and…

— Michael Shellenberger

Solar makes electricity expensive for two inherently physical reasons. Sunlight is dilute, requiring 10 to 15 times as much materials and mining, and up…

— Michael Shellenberger

Solar and wind advocates say cheaper solar panels and wind turbines will make the future growth in renewables cheaper than past growth but there…

— Michael Shellenberger

The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they become larger shares of the electricity grid for physical reasons. They produce…

— Michael Shellenberger

A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power…

— Elon Musk

Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and…

— Hillary Clinton

Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy,…

— Elizabeth May

With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry in check,…

— Bill McKibben

The fact that solar has gone down 80 percent since 2008 is astonishing. Wind is perhaps not coming down as quickly. Lack of storage…

— Christiana Figueres

People forget: solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Businesses don't retrofit themselves to waste less energy and water, nor…

— Van Jones

Photovoltaics are a great technology for certain applications, and, in fact, we invest in photovoltaic technologies. But they're not good substitutes for grid electricity.

— Vinod Khosla

“screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of…

— Mike Bond