Transitioning towards solar panels
People are beginning to take action to remedy expensive, but necessary energy costs with photovoltaic solar panels. Year-on-year, PV solar capacity has been steadily growing and currently stands in the UK at 5.5GW.
In comparison, Germany has reportedly reached 25% of its overall power generation and still growing by adopting solar panels. Grid-parity (where the cost is less than or equal to the price of purchasing traditional power from the grid) has reportedly already been reached in the Australian PV sector.
Adopt self-generation before our hands are forced by global conflict, terrorism, solar-flare blackouts, energy sanctions on Russia, or any other ‘out of the blue’ supply interruption scenarios.
Only one hundred and fifty years ago, we were a civilisation driven by horse and cart. That’s just three generations and a paradigm shift that oil-burning brought to us. Unbelievably, some people at that time wanted to hold back this progress!
Even in the US, new technologies such as Sam Colt’s new revolver were shunned by traditionalists at that time!
The same occurred with PV solar panel technology today. Just like a teenager today, a combination of necessity and peer pressure will drive the next paradigm shift. As homeowners spend more on their energy requirements rather than the fun stuff, the proposition of a long-term solution like solar panels becomes more tempting.
It’s not only our hormone-driven youth that makes financial decisions based on peer pressure!
In a Martin Lewis money-saving type of world, this kind of reasoning would sound like madness, but human beings are social creatures.
The pressure to not be judged drives innovation as well as the economy as a whole.
We convince ourselves that we are investing in the future, yet our requirement to gratify today is a more powerful instinct. I can’t think of any other purchase in life that benefits the user for such a long time span as solar panels.
It’ll be this realisation by homeowners that’ll truly drive the solar panel industry forward.
Nobody will want to be the last to install solar panels. The PV solar panel industry is flourishing today because energy expenditure is reaching stupid levels!
The transformative abilities will bring us to a new secondary paradigm shift towards self-generation. I’m pleased that PV systems will play a central role in this change.
This is a new way of thinking about the everyday energy we depend on for our lives. Yes, a paradigm shift, with charging our cars is here too. EV-charging, and producing electricity generated for daily transport is here to stay too.
Another incentive to install today. We succumb to social peer pressures and may actively pursue the pride that comes with installing solar panels. Just like my nephew’s aspiration for the latest and greatest smartphone.