Viewers of President Obama's State of the Union address on
Tuesday evening may have noticed the President making a strong,
albeit brief, statement in support of solar energy in the United
States.
The President commented, "It's not just oil and natural
gas production that's booming; we're becoming a global
leader in solar, too. Every four minutes, another American home or
business goes solar; every panel pounded into place by a worker
whose job can't be outsourced. Let's continue that progress
with a smarter tax policy that stops giving $4 billion a year to
fossil fuel industries that don't need it, so that we can
invest more in fuels of the future that do." SEIA seized the
opportunity to participate in the free publicity for solar by
commenting, "With an estimated 13,000 megawatts of solar
currently installed in the U.S., we're generating enough clean,
reliable electricity today to power more than two million American
homes – or every single home in a state the size
