solar has lost power

Interesting reading here
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/solar-enthusiasm-exceeds-practicality/story-e6frg6ux-1226275140254

"ONE of the world's biggest green-energy, public policy experiments is coming to a bitter end in Germany, with important lessons for policymakers elsewhere.

Germany once prided itself on being the "photovoltaic world champion", doling out generous subsidies totalling more than $US130 billion to citizens to invest in solar energy, according to Germany's Ruhr University.

But now the German government is vowing to cut the subsidies sooner than planned and to phase out support over the next five years. What went wrong?"