{"id":119,"date":"2016-02-22T18:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/?p=119"},"modified":"2016-02-22T18:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:34:49","slug":"solar-power-as-a-backstop-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/2016\/02\/22\/solar-power-as-a-backstop-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power as a backstop technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/08\/africa\/ouarzazate-morocco-solar-plant\/\">Morocco switched on it&#8217;s huge\u00a0concentrated solar plant<\/a>, Noor 1. Morocco has historically relied on imported fossil fuels. This solar plant will significantly lower Morocco&#8217;s carbon emissions and start a move to a greater reliance on alternative energy. This shows how much the cost of solar, one backstop energy technology, has\u00a0fallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Morocco switched on it&#8217;s huge\u00a0concentrated solar plant, Noor 1. Morocco has historically relied on imported fossil fuels. This solar plant will significantly lower Morocco&#8217;s carbon emissions and start a move to a greater reliance on alternative energy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/2016\/02\/22\/solar-power-as-a-backstop-technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/econ332\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}