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factory cost estimation? The preponderance of 

 accomplishment and costs during two decades of the 

 "efficiency race" favors an under $500/kH factory cost 

 for SVUGs in million quantities production runs. 



Perhaps more interesting to this Congressional Task 

 Force is that fifteen years after the Congress set a 

 national goal in PL 95-590 for 4000 Megawatts of PV at 

 an installed cost of $1000/kH by 1988, we are still 

 languishing in R & D. Some experts now put 

 accomplishing those goals out to 2010. And, there have 

 been five more Acts of The Congress in the interim to 

 spur utility-scale solar photovoltaic generation. It 

 took only seven years from the 'man on the moon" na- 

 tional goal to the Apollo Landing in July 1969. 

 Solidstate devices in shirt-pocket calculators and 

 personal computers went from a idea to market satura- 

 tion and price wars during that fifteen years of photo- 

 voltaic research and the "efficiency race" still on- 

 going in solar photovoltaic power. Perhaps another 

 push by the Congress to install thousand megawatt 

 capacity Solar Photovoltaic Generation in the Pacific 

 Northwest in this Century along with the incentive of 

 1.5C/kHh direct payment for solar generation in the 

 Comprehensive Energy Policy Act of 1992 can bring about 

 that 1988 Goal set by the Congress to solve the contem- 

 porary energy crisis in the Pacific Northwest. 



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