Despite the challenges of harnessing renewable energy sources
and the challenges of delivering renewable power to power supply
grids worldwide, wind and solar are pushed as the solutions for
weaning the global economy off of fossil fuels. Yet, though
renewables get all the good press, they have been unable to make
the leap to mainstream energy production for myriad reasons.
Energy has evolved from wood, to whale oil, to coal, to
petroleum and to nuclear, and now the global economy desperately
needs to move towards the vast promise of continuous renewable
energy. There are many who believe that wind and solar, in
particular, are the next step in the evolution of energy. The
strength of the economic recovery holds the key to how energy
markets will evolve over the next few years. With the inevitable
expiration of workable fossil fuel supplies and the escalating
costs of providing energy from them, renewable energy is the
only logical and economical solution.