ASAP (American Solar Action Plan) is a non-profit organization building public understanding of solar energy’s ability to make the United States energy self-sufficient and to successfully meet the threat of global warming.

• Sunlight is a huge, nearly ubiquitous resource many thousands of times larger than our energy demand.
• The Plan can be generalized worldwide, so the US can show the way for others to adopt it.
• Means of storing solar energy have been developed and can make possible 24/7 operation.
• Solar electric conversion technologies are nearing economic viability, and the near-term goal is to establish a ten-year national solar deployment plan to bring solar technologies to lowest cost through the attainment of optimized mass manufacturing scale.
• The transportation sector can be transformed by electric and hybrid electric vehicles, allowing solar-generated electricity to become the fuel.

All the pieces of this world-changing plan actually exist and have been described in the January 2008 Scientific American. We believe it is only a lack of awareness of the opportunity and of its efficacy that prevents the Plan from being immediately adopted. As Mark Twain once said, “Once you lose your ignorance, it’s hard to get it back.” We want to be the organization through which this loss of ignorance is accomplished.

Energy self-sufficiency will allow us to expand domestic jobs and economic well-being while providing us with a sustainable energy path throughout the 21st century. America’s current energy trade imbalance of nearly half a trillion dollars a year is economically unsustainable and must be ended ASAP.

Using carbon-free solar electricity would allow us to reduce CO₂ emissions by 92% below current levels, literally ending the threat of global warming.