OFweek Energy Network News: New rising solar companies such as Sunnova will lease solar panels covering the entire residential roof at the same price you paid for traditional power companies. This seems likely to give birth to a solar boom.

Last Friday night, as the transformer suddenly made a loud noise, my family suddenly fell into a darkness. Although I think it is a rare pleasure to look for candles and flashlights around the stormy nights, it didn't take long for my family to complain that their fans and hair dryers have become furnishings, let alone email. Last Saturday, the bright sunshine began to make Houston dry. I kept thinking: "If my home has solar panels installed, then I will rebut in my heart as usual." Solar panels can be economical and cost-effective."

Anyway, I have been thinking about solar energy in my mind. Last week, I was amazed when I read a very important report from Bernstein Research. The report asserts that in many developed countries, the solar revolution has finally arrived, and solar power is now economically viable – even without subsidies. Bernstein analysts predict that the global installed capacity of solar power will increase from 31GW (Jiva, 1GW = 1000MW = 1 billion watts) in 2012 to 300GW in 2020. This will be a very substantial increase – equivalent to 1.5% of global energy demand. This may sound great, but I am skeptical about it.

This suspicion gradually disappeared when I had lunch with John Berger on Monday. He is the CEO of Sunnova, a Houston-based solar company. The main message he sent to me was that solar energy is economical. In fact, he will sell solar power at a price equivalent to about 12 cents per kilowatt-hour (ie kilowatt-hours) – a price lower than what many American residents now pay to power companies. He said: "The residential sun has become a regular energy source. The future will belong to the base gas natural gas power generation and residential solar energy. The upcoming solar heat will be as grand and important as shale gas heat."

Consumers will be more willing to accept the price of solar power from Berg, especially considering Sunnova's value proposition. The company's solar PV system rental service is arranged in such a way that you don't have to pay any deposits in advance, and an installation contractor at Sunnova will install the solar panels on the roof of your home. You will then enter into a long-term lease agreement with Sunnova, in accordance with which you agree to pay an electricity bill for each kilowatt of electricity generated by these solar panels (usually equal to or even lower than what you can get from other retail power suppliers). s price). The electricity generated by the solar panels on your roof will replace most of the electricity that was purchased from power companies in the past (alternatively around 70%). In this way, you can not only save money, but also make solar power more reliable in the rare occurrence of power outages.