Ray Kurzweil, noted futurist and inventor, thinks it will.  We receive 10,000 times more sunlight than we need to meet 100 percent of our energy needs, and Kurzweil holds that the technology needed for collecting and storing solar energy is about to advance exponentially in accordance with his Law of Accelerating Returns.

Read here:  http://www.livescience.com/4824-solar-power-rule-20-years-futurists.html