The New Solar System: China, the United States, and How to Make Solar Power Big Enough to Matter

The New Solar System, a major new report from Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, calls for a smarter approach to scaling up solar power for the world â€" an approach that would involve a more sophisticated view of U.S. and Chinese comparative advantage. On Wednesday, April 19, from 10-11:30 a.m., Jeffrey Ball, the report’s primary author and the Steyer-Taylor Center's scholar-in-residence, and Dan Reicher, one of the report's co-authors and the Steyer-Taylor Center's executive director, will discuss the report's findings and implications.

Refreshments will be served. All are welcome. 

The New Solar System, two years in the making, illuminates key and little-understood changes remaking the solar enterprise in China, the center of the global solar industry; busts several outdated and counterproductive Western myths about the Chinese solar industry; and recommends changes to U.S. policy to put solar power on a more economically efficient course for the world. The changes would involve the United States and China each playing strategically to its comparative strengths.

Ball and Reicher released The New Solar System last month at The Brookings Institution in Washington and wrote a New York Times op-ed reflecting key themes from the report. Since then, the report has drawn extensive media coverage, including in Greentech Media, the MIT Technology Review, China Daily, and the Stanford Report. 

If you plan to attend the April 19 event, please click here to register.

Speakers:

Jeffrey BallScholar-in-ResidenceLecturer in Law

Dan ReicherExecutive DirectorSteyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance

Room 290