Not only would that be very difficult to do, nuclear and coal have had decades of subsidies, giving them quite an unfair head-start.
In any case, by 2017 solar will be at grid parity in most of the US. By 2020 this won't even be a topic.
In any case, by 2017 solar will be at grid parity in most of the US. By 2020 this won't even be a topic.
It takes forever to get transmission capacity approved and built to areas where solar is really cost-effective and we still don't have grid-scale energy storage.
As for utility-scale, it's also smashing records, but that's a different discussion. $6c/kWh in UAE was a figure that surprised a lot of observers.
Regarding storage... solar coincides very well with peak A/C load, so the main use case doesn't require it.