US Passes 10 GW Installed Solar PV Capacity Milestone

[bananas]

Source: Clean Technica

America’s 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]

1. Slowly but surely, we are moving toward cleaner energy.

Let's don't let that new treaty set us back on this.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Shameful, really.

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]

3. We invented it first

yup

[MindMover]

4. Raygun killed hope for the middle class

[toby jo]

5. Great news - it doesn't get a whole lot better .

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. False comparison. Reframe as percentage of total installed capacity or per capita. /nt

[daleo]

7. And trainloads of solar panels don't blow up towns

Solar reactors don't have meltdowns. And so on.

[silvershadow]

8. Yes. They also don't inject chemical waste from petrochemical industry deep into the earth to spoil

my water forever.