State of the Union: Obama shines modest light on US solar expansion
Source: PV Magazine
In his annual State of the Union speech delivered to Congress and the nation Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama highlighted the rapid expansion of solar power in the United States since he moved into the White House.
"Every three weeks, we bring on line as much solar power as we did in all of 2008," said Obama.
The president, it appears, was being modest.
In 2008, the U.S. added approximately 338 MW of solar power capacity, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. However, only 293 MW actually went on line, since NREL estimated that 45 MW were off-grid systems.
In 2014, the U.S. brought on line approximately 7.2 GW of solar, mostly PV, estimated the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research in a recent report. That means, on average, about 415 MW of new solar power capacity was added every three weeks in 2014, or about 273 MW every other week.
Roughly three quarters of America’s installed solar power capacity – estimated at approximately 20 GW including both PV and CSP – has come on line since Obama took office in 2009.
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