What major power companies or private organization are doing this? (besides as a tax write-off)? None that I know of sunny climate or not. Even when they are, most aren't in these climates so wake me up when solar comes there in this fashion.
Can't practically anyone get a student loan? This will pay for schooling, rent and food. Use this to get a job and back on your feet, graduate and you can become a teacher. Drop out and you will be back on your feet. Why don't more homeless people do this? it's free money.
If solar is such a good investment, why aren't power companies creating solar fields with a sense of urgency? Sure, there are a token few, but this is mainly for PR reasons or funded by grants ETC.
When businesses (wholesalers and consumers) start going to solar on a grand scale, Solar will have finally arrived as a cost effective alternative. Wake me when this happens.
If solar was profitable (or saved money), we would see all power companies switching to it on a massive scale and with a sense of urgency (it would be good business after all). Where are the regional solar arrays on a massive scale being built in deserts across the US? We aren't seeing this (there are some token tax writeoff/marketing/PR ones only). Alert me when it happens because this will signify that solar is finally viable. Forget these stories and media hype, it's all BS. If you want to invest your money to save the world A La Prius owners who almost never break even financially, more power to you. It's mostly an illusion that you are saving the planet at this stage of efficiency and manufacturing environmental cost, but if it makes you feel good - Go for it. Sorry to be a downer, but reality agrees with me.
Edit: One more thing, I can almost guarantee that the India energy minister is being compensated in some way for saying this. Either directly or he has financial investment in a particular solar company.
I wonder if it is because out law enforcement is better than in Africa or anywhere in the middle east for that matter. Think of all the rapes and murders, kidnappings and human trafficking that go on there every day, unpunished. Think of all the corruption and mobs in Mexico. Anyway, we know that there are far more people in North Korean labor camps.
I think that the real reason though is that we allow Blacks and Mexicans in America to make excuses. Left wingers do everything in their power to give them a leg up... lower educational standards for them, give them welfare and disability, tell white people that it's their fault and make blacks victims of slavery, change everything around them to make their lives easier instead of demanding that they work-or-starve like the dirt poor immigrants from Russia or Romania who arrive with nothing, can barely speak English, and work hard with their hands to eventually build a successful life. Stop making excuses for them. Stop telling them they can't succeed without your beloved programs. They once were a strong and proud people, now they have been reduced to taking handouts and lacking empowerment as a result. (why would they need special help unless they were inferior to begin with? - They can't do it on their own)
We allow their vulgar and misogynist language, rap and music to infiltrate our culture. Glamorize their thugs-life. Give them a pass when abandoning their kids (it's because of white racists you know). Do you really think that PC and social programs have benefited blacks in America? More people then ever secretly dislike blacks now because they can't even criticize them (with legitimate reasons) without the racism patrol coming out and ruining their lives.