ClaimsVinod Khosla

“There's no subsidies in India, there's no subsidies for solar in Chile or Africa or most of the world.”

Vinod Khosla, investor, interview answer 23 December 2010 Vinod Khosla: Searching for the Radical Solution (Scientific American) archived copy

Factual Economics and markets

As of 2010 there are no subsidies for solar in India, Chile, Africa or most of the world.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

What would count as true or false

Judged as of 2010-12-23. The claim has several parts: no solar subsidies in (a) India, (b) Chile, (c) Africa, and (d) most of the world. True: the evidence shows none of these places had solar subsidies in 2010 (feed-in tariffs, capital subsidies, tax credits, generation-based incentives or similar). Mostly true: the claim holds broadly, with only trivial or token exceptions. Mixed: roughly half of the parts hold (e.g. Chile and much of Africa had no solar subsidies, but India did). Mostly false: most of the named places did have solar subsidies, though the claim rests on something real (e.g. subsidies were small or not yet in force). False: India (e.g. the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission's 2010 tariffs and viability-gap support), several African countries, and most countries with solar markets all had solar subsidies in 2010.

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Evidence (4)

  1. E1 TRENDS IN PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS Survey report of selected IEA countries between 1992 and 2010 IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (IEA-PVPS) · 2011

    “Uganda has – probably as the first country in Africa – introduced a Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff (REFIT) programme under the administration of the Electricity Regulatory Authority.”

  2. E2 National Solar Mission - Wikipedia Wikipedia

    “Generation Based Incentive and facility for bundled power for Grid connected Solar Power Projects through various interventions announced from time to time.”

  3. E3 TRENDS IN PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS Survey report of selected IEA countries between 1992 and 2010 IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (IEA-PVPS) · 2011

    “Italy’s very attractive incentive scheme, the Conto Energia Programme, continued to drive the market during 2010. Some 744 million EUR were allocated for feed-in tariff payments during this third phase of the programme throughout 2010.”

  4. E4 TRENDS IN PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS Survey report of selected IEA countries between 1992 and 2010 IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (IEA-PVPS) · 2011

    “was instigated in January 2010, with the new decreased tariffs coming into force in March 2010 and also retroactively applied to installations coming on line after 15 January 2010.”

Reasoning

The evidence shows a solar generation-based incentive in India, but the quote gives no date for it [E2]. It also shows a renewable feed-in tariff in Uganda, with no date and nothing saying it covered solar [E1], and a feed-in tariff in Italy in 2010 [E3]. No item covers Chile, and the evidence does not show that most of the named places had solar subsidies in 2010.

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Vinod Khosla, “As of 2010 there are no subsidies for solar in India, Chile, Africa or most of the world.” (said 23 December 2010). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_9a682f5d49aa, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_9a682f5d49aa

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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