Craig, thanks for offering to provide references to support your opinions, which run contrary to my experiences gained through decades as an engineer in the power industry. Please do so.

Craig, what branch of EA was it?
And does the West in this context mean the western world? Or does it mean WA? I could easily believe the latter (considering its low population density) but extraordinary evidence would be required to convince me of the former.
The UK is looking to build more nuclear power stations to replace those that are closing down. Or more specifically, England is. Scotland, with its lower population density, plans to rely on wind instead.

IT’s interesting to note that solar panels can be activated with LED OR Flouro lighting .
It should be a requirement of building regulations that solar hot water and electricity comes with the construction of a house.

Mark Lawson here
Craig - I'd have to join with the others who have commented and note that I think what's happened is that you've misunderstood one of the presentations at this conference. Go back and look at the exact wording. You may well find that it says IF when went down this path then it could happen in 10 years. No-one else in the market is doing this - not even Denmark or California who are much further along the renewable path than we are - and no hint that anyone is going to.

So you've misunderstood something. You'd better go back and re-read the material. Leave it with you.

Look at Slide 10 on this presentation. Also notice the irony in Slide 14:

http://canadianenergyissues.com/2014/01/29/how-much-does-it-cost-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-a-primer-on-electricity-infrastructure-planning-in-the-age-of-climate-change/

Slide 10 shows the price of electricity on the horizontal axis and the CO2 emissions intensity of electricity per country/state on the vertical axix. The numbers in the circles are the emissions intensity of each country/state.

Deutshe Bank has produced another major report that suggests solar will become the dominant electricity source around the world as it beats conventional fuels, generates $5 trillion in revenue over the next 15 years, and displaces large amounts of fossil fuels.

In a detailed, 175-page report, the Deutsche analysts led by Vishal Shah say the market potential for solar is massive. Even now, with 130GW of solar installed, it accounts for just 1 per cent of the 6,000GW, or $2 trillion electricity market (that is an annual figure)
The case for solar will be boosted by the emergence of cost-competitive storage, which Deutsche describes as the “next killer app” because it will overcome difficulties in either accessing the grid or net metering policies.

“We believe reduction(a) in solar storage costs could act as a significant catalyst for global solar adoption, particularly in high electricity markets such as Europe,” it writes.

“As we look out over the next 5 years, we believe the industry is set to experience the final piece of cost reduction – customer acquisition costs for distributed generation are set to decline by more than half as customer awareness increases, soft costs come down and more supportive policies are announced.