How solar energy is a cornerstone to sustainability

Solar energy is free, and more of its energy hits the Earth in a single day than humans use in an entire year. Solar panels have been designed to capture it - and these run-on sunlight not sunshine, making solar a proven and stable technology even in countries like the UK, that sees cloudy skies for much of the year.  The 'levelised cost of energy' (LCOE) is a measure used to understand the full life cycle cost of producing electricity from different sources, looking at the production of the technology (or power plant), fuel, operation, and maintenance.  Using this measure, we can obs...