Distributed solar is critical to fighting climate change. True cost of solar and hidden subsidies for conventional energy.

1. The Economics of (and Threat to) Rooftop Solar
in Southern Arizona
May 11, 2015

2. Climate Roulette:
Most recent IPCC report gives 50/50 chance of stabilizing climate impacts at 2
degrees warming if we eliminate carbon emissions by 2040

3. City of Tucson Carbon Emission Reduction Goals
(being recommended by the City Climate Change committee)
Slide credit: John Farrell, Institute for Local Self Reliance, 2015

4. What emissions do we need to find
solutions for?
Source: PAG Regional Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2014

5. Carbon Footprints of Energy Sources
Source: Wikipedia

6. Desert Adapted Energy Production
Source: Water for Energy: Future Water Needs for Electricity in the Intermountain West.
Pacific Institute, November 2011

7. Tucson’s Cost of Solar PV

8. Maine Public Utilities Commission
Maine Distributed Solar Valuation Study
March 1, 2015

9. Renewable Energy Storage