Geo Strategy Partners has conducted numerous renewable energy studies and the glaring reality is most alternative sources cannot reach power grid parity without government subsidies. However, experts were predicting that solar would reach power grid parity by 2016, but that was before the price of oil plummeted. If the new technology referenced below is commercially viable, solar still might eclipse fossil fuels as a cost effective source of energy in. On the other hand, it may be that solar is dawning just as fracking is raining on its parade.

Solar panels (photo Bernd Sieker)