What would need to happen for solarpunk technology to exist in the 1920's/30's?

Solarpunk, for those who are somehow unaware, is a subgenre similar to that of steam/cyberpunk that instead depicts a future running on advanced renewable energy-powered technology. It usually depicts quasi-utopian societies to contrast from the "low-life" and nihilistic themes of cyberpunk and usually features a very bright and green Art-Nouveau aesthetic rather than a smokey and brass Victorian one. The term was coined very recently by this Tumblr post, which goes into more detail describing it. It'd be nice to see this subgenre getting its own tag on this site.

What would need to happen for technology to advance enough for society to be able to primarily rely on advanced renewable-energy by say, the early 1900s? And although solarpunk is characteristically a utopian genre of speculative fiction, the societal issues and conflicts that defined and were prevalent in that time period don't have to have never existed. (World War I could potentially be fought with solar-powered tanks.)

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