A recent report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration details the fact that solar power has contributed 2.7 percent of the nation’s electricity needs for the first half of 2019. This is another post inspired by a recent PV Magazine USA article. The first half of 2018 had solar producing 2.4 percent of the country’s […]
Florida’s Solar Industry Is Starting To Shine
About seven months ago, in November of 2018, I wrote a post on the fact that the solar power industry was about to take off in Florida. Well, here we are about half way through 2019 and that’s certainly the case. This post comes by way of a PV Magazine article. Of course, there’s no […]
U.S. Now Has Almost 50 Times As Much Solar Than 11 Years Ago
Much can change in a decade. The solar power industry is a great example. There’s now 48 times more solar in the United States than there was 11 years ago. In 2008, solar only provided 2 terawatt-hours of electricity. That figure grew to 96 TWh by 2018, meeting more than 2 percent of the nation’s […]
More Than 10 GW Of Solar Installed In America In 2018
2018 was another strong year for the solar power industry in the United States. Last year was the third year in a row that the country installed gigawatts of solar in double-digits. A total of 10.6 GW of solar PV (photovoltaics aka solar panels) were completed, bringing the total amount in the U.S. to 64.2 […]