US Passes 10 GW Installed Solar PV Capacity Milestone
Source: Clean Technica
Americas solar market has broken through the clouds to shine as only the fourth nation to pass the 10 gigawatts (GW) installed solar capacity milestone.
Fast-growing solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment levels since 2010 pushed the US into the ultra-exclusive 10 GW club, reports NPD Solarbuzz in the latest North America PV Market Quarterly report.
The US has now joined an elite group of maturing solar PV markets, said Christopher Sunsong of NPD Solarbuzz. Only Germany, Italy, and China have more installed PV capacity than the US.
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NPD predicts installations will accelerate over the next 18 months. Cumulative solar PV installations are forecast to grow an additional 80% by the end of 2014, putting the US on track to pass 17 GW installed solar PV capacity.
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Read more: http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/09/us-passes-10gw-installed-solar-pv-capacity-milestone/
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Let's don't let that new treaty set us back on this.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Fourth? There is absolutely no excuse for our not being in 1st Place.
Reagan may have killed more than just the unions. With his symbolic removal of Carter's solar panels from the White House, he put us on an inexorable path to the death of the planet.
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
MindMover
(5,016 posts)toby jo
(1,269 posts)They recently had one of those solar-powered jets up, now if that doesn't make sense - something that operates in a totally sunny location above the clouds, on solar. Love it.
Can hardly wait for this stuff to come down in price.
TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)daleo
(21,317 posts)Solar reactors don't have meltdowns. And so on.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)my water forever.