At SolveClimate, Stacy Feldman writes U.S. Solar Market Booms, With Utility-Scale Projects Leading the Way:
America could add 10 gigawatts of solar power every year by 2015, enough to power 2 million new homes annually, industry and market analysts have claimed in a new report.
The Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based market research firm, said the figures represent a tenfold surge compared to 2010, which is on track to set its own record.
A full gigawatt of solar may get installed this year for the first time, the report, U.S. Solar Market Insight [pdf], said — a roughly 150 percent leap from the 441 megawatts added last year.
One factor driving the boom is the ramp-up in large utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) setups.
"I would say we're going to look back on 2010 as the year that the utility-scale market really emerged," Shayle Kann, a managing director of GTM Research, told reporters in an Oct. 12 telephone press conference.
In the first half of 2010, over 23,000 PV systems were added, compared to about 28,000 in all of 2009. This includes an "unprecedented" 22 utility projects, the authors wrote.
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2006:
Unreal. Sen. Lieberman tells the Hartford Courant - with an assumedly straight face - that he "hasn't thought enough" about whether he thinks Democrats should win back the [H]ouse, or about who he's endorsing for Governor.
But, hey, he's still caucusing with the Democrats because, y'know, how could we get along without him?
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Today we endorsed two Democratic candidates who are making a couple of Republican incumbents sweat. Those two are Suzan DelBene of Washington's 8th District and Colleen Hanabusa of Hawai'i's 1st District. Polls show Hanabusa tied, and DelBene down only 3 percent.
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