Going Solar

In Illinois a solar plant is being built. Next year this plant will be able to power over 1500 hundred homes. Other plants are also being built in Illinois. This state is seizing the head start that is available to every state by requiring 1/4 of it's energy to be from renewable resources by 2025. To me that seems a long ways away. If Illinois began building power plants continuously and promoted it enough, I believe this goal could be achieved by 2020, or even 2015. The cost of these solar panels is mentioned and said to be very high, but if a person were to purchase solar panels for their home, the panels would pay for themselves over time because of how cheap the electric bills would become. If every state, or the country, set a goal like Illinois did, we would be well on our way to completely clean energy.