Last week, Massachusetts announced it had reached its goal of obtaining 250 megawatts of power — enough to power multiple mid-sized cities — four years early.
It’s another sign that, as we’ve recently discussed, solar is booming.
The main reason is China, which has so thoroughly flooded the global market with cheap parts that today, Europe slapped them with a new tariff.
But there are other signs that solar power is set to take off.
We’ve compiled some of them here.
That's even without subsidies.
Source: GWU
Residents of the Southwest U.S. reached this point last year.
'This peak effect has resulted in some gas plants in Germany running in 2012 for no more than a handful of days, with resulting profit warnings from associated utilities,' Citi writes.
That's third only to wind and hydro.
This is a state one usually does not associate with excessive (natural) sun...
Source: SEIA.org
The Garden State's commitment to solar was kicked off during Gov. Jon Corzine's administration, according to the New York Times. By state mandate, power providers must get 23 per cent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2021.
Source: Solar Electric Power
As some say, 'We didn't leave the stone age because we ran out of stones.'
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