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Lamar Alexander: “A second agreement we have is our hope for the success of solar power, making it cheaper because it operates at peak…”

On the recordMay 5, 2010
A second agreement we have is our hope for the success of solar power, making it cheaper because it operates at peak time. But just for the record, Secretary Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President Obama's Energy Secretary, says it is still too expensive by a factor of four compared to other forms of energy. That is his judgment, and we hope that it will get better because we make a lot of the polysilicon in Tennessee, so that would mean more jobs for Tennessee if that happens.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Citing Secretary Chu's view on the cost of solar energy.

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