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Solar now costs 6¢ per kilowatt-hour, beating government goal by 3 years

Further Reading The economics of energy generation are changing; more metrics favor solar, wind Those prices don’t include an Investment Tax Credit (ITC), which makes solar panels even cheaper.

The Energy Department said that the cost per watt was assessed in terms of total installed system costs for developers.

Despite the plummeting costs for utility-scale solar, costs for commercial and residential solar panels have not fallen quite as quickly—just 15 percent and 6 percent, respectively.

In 2011, the DOE started the SunShot Initiative with the stated purpose of reducing solar panel prices to certain levels by 2020.

From here, there are a few factors that could change how solar panels are priced in the future.

The US solar manufacturers are calling for a 40-cent-per-watt tariff on imported cells and a 78-cent-per-watt floor price for imported modules.

US solar installers are firmly opposed to this tariff proposal, saying that increased panel prices would cause the US' 260,000-person solar industry to shed 88,000 jobs. »

How Geeks Took Over The Online Porn Business

Authored by businessinsider.com

There are plenty of sites where consumers can find every movie they want for free.

That's one of the many things you can infer from a big dossier in New York Magazine this week on online porn.

The porn market is as good an example as any of how firms repsond to new, disruptive technologies. »

Equifax had 'admin' as login and password in Argentina

Authored by bbc.com

The credit report provider Equifax has been accused of a fresh data security breach, this time affecting its Argentine operations.

Cyber-crime blogger Brian Krebs said that an online employee tool used in the country could be accessed by typing "admin" as both a login and password.

"We immediately acted to remediate the situation, which affected a limited amount of information strictly related to Equifax employees. »

Martin Shkreli Is Jailed for Seeking a Hair From Hillary Clinton

Authored by nytimes.com

It was, they noted, not the first time that Mr. Shkreli had made inflammatory posts on social media.

Just before his conviction, prosecutors wrote, Mr. Shkreli had made a sexual threat toward a female journalist on Twitter; since then, they wrote, “Shkreli has engaged in an escalating pattern of threats and harassment.”.

After the hearing, two deputy United States marshals led Mr. Shkreli to a holding cell adjoining the courtroom. »

Shkreli ordered jailed after online bounty on Hillary Clinton's hair

Authored by reuters.com

Shkreli was convicted in August of defrauding investors of two hedge funds he ran.

Shkreli said in a letter to Matsumoto on Tuesday that his Facebook post was meant as satire.

Shkreli first rose to prominence in 2015 when, as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, he raised the price of anti-infection drug Daraprim by 5,000 percent. »