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As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.

I'm an advocate for a full spectrum of energy policy, but we're never going to get there with solar cells that are going to power this country.

Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, you can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you can't hate solar panels. These are rocks that make electricity, so they are incapable of receiving your hate.

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, 'You can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you can't hate solar panels.'

I think the future for solar energy is bright.