What went wrong?
Solar doesn’t pay for itself/turn a profit.
If a typical solar installation could be used in the event of a power outage, they’d sell more of them. As it stands you can’t have a grid-tied system if you have battery storage.
With subsidies, all I've seen is poor engineering, faulty financing and the inevitable busts (with the US Taxpayers fleeced).
No. Crappy products for the price and the big one, the sun only is out less than half the time when weather is factored.
No.....It’s killing TAX PAYERS!!!!
The solar power industry has never shown promise except as a niche product. That's because it is not viable as a mainstream provider of electricity. If it were a promising industry it would not require government subsidies.
I find that solar works pretty well to power our weekend cabin. A 32watt panel and a 12 golf cart battery powers lights and radios etc all weekend. Still need a generator for power tools or vacuum cleaner.
Wouldn’t work so well for a house. You need a big battery room and a back up generator. And those batteries need to be replaced every few years. And.. and.. and..
The government proved that when you give things to people and make it really easy to “succeed” then you help ensure failure by de-motivating them from taking the steps a normal business would take....our welfare society being proved out at all levels....