The Reality of Solar Panels at 50% Cost

Last week, residents in the Baltimore-Washington area experienced their 42^ndday of 90+ degree temperatures this year. Wouldn’t it be nice to capture more of that intense sunlight and convert it into electricity?

Modern photovoltaic cells (more commonly known as solar panels) were invented in the 1950s at Bell Laboratories. But despite the passage of over fifty years, solar energy's full potential has yet to be tapped due in part to the cost of actually putting the pieces of a solar panel together -- installing solar panels still far exceeds the cost of using traditional fossil fuels like coal and natural gas.