Tue Sep 12, 2017 AT 2:15 PM EDT
Trump administration announced Tuesday that it has met former President Barack Obama’s price goals for solar energy power plants three years ahead of schedule, reports the Washington Examiner. The Energy Department announced that the Obama-era Solar Shot program’s 2020 price-reduction goals for solar energy have been met by big, utility-scale solar power plant projects, shrinking the cost from 28 cents per kilowatt hour in 2010 to 6 cents.