Ed Markey claim: "Competition will ultimately make solar energy competitive with grid electricity in this decade"

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Bingaman is also continuing his years-long resistance to opening up the standard to non-renewable forms of energy. While some Republicans want more energy sources toward the mandate -- including all nuclear energy production -- Bingaman said this would complicate and water down the plan.
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[Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)] “At the end of the day, competition is good. Competition is one of the chief reasons that the price of a solar model has fallen by half in the last two years. Competition will ultimately make solar energy competitive with grid electricity in this decade. But this competition must be fair. It must allow American workers to play on the field.”