{"id":149,"date":"2015-12-15T09:23:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=149"},"modified":"2015-12-15T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:01:35","slug":"new-solar-system-activated-every-1-6-minutes-in-u-s-in-q3-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/new-solar-system-activated-every-1-6-minutes-in-u-s-in-q3-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New solar system activated every 1.6 minutes in U.S. in Q3 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activation of a new solar system in the United States occurred every 1.6 minutes in the third quarter (Q3) of 2015, according to the Q3 2015 Solar Market Insight report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), <\/p>\n<p>This 1.6-minute mark is a 36 percent increase from the SEIA-reported 2.5-minute mark seen in 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/solar?src=hash\">#solar<\/a> system was activated every 1.6 minutes in Q3! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoSolar?src=hash\">#GoSolar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SolarIsNow?src=hash\">#SolarIsNow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jASaUrFlvg\">https:\/\/t.co\/jASaUrFlvg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunBaca\">@SunBaca<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f8Rb7eLqjo\">pic.twitter.com\/f8Rb7eLqjo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Solar Industry (@SEIA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEIA\/status\/674637517791080449\">December 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Solar increases seen in all sectors<\/h2>\n<p>According to the SEIA, Q3 2015 saw the connection on 81,000 new photovoltaic (PV) systems in the U.S. Utility-scale PV makes up the largest chunk of all capacity &#8212; 42 percent &#8212; and residential solar capacity increased 12 percent quarter over quarter (69 percent year over year).<\/p>\n<h2>More solar growth expected now through 2016<\/h2>\n<p>In 2014, renewable energy consumption <a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/renewable-energy-consumption-highest-in-nearly-80-years\/\" title=\"was the highest in nearly 80 years\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>was the highest in nearly 80 years<\/strong><\/a>, and the solar capacity in the U.S. is <a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/solar-capacity-expected-to-grow-more-than-100-from-2014-to-2016\/\" title=\"expected to double from 2014 to 2016\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>expected to double from 2014 to 2016<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<div id=\"inlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/report-u-s-solar-market-remains-on-track-for-a-record-breaking-year\" title=\"Report: U.S. solar market remains on track for a record-breaking year\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/solar-panels-closeup_df4j52k-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Report: U.S. solar market remains on track for a record-breaking year\" alt=\"Report: U.S. solar market remains on track for a record-breaking year\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/report-u-s-solar-market-remains-on-track-for-a-record-breaking-year\" title=\"Report: U.S. solar market remains on track for a record-breaking year\"><h4>Report: U.S. solar market remains on track for a record-breaking year<\/h4><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/report-u-s-solar-market-remains-on-track-for-a-record-breaking-year\" title=\"Report: U.S. solar market remains on track for a record-breaking year\" class=\"hide375\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The upward trend seen in solar power is showing no signs of slowing down right now, as the U.S. solar market is on track for a <a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/report-u-s-solar-market-remains-on-track-for-a-record-breaking-year\/\" title=\"record-breaking year\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>record-breaking year<\/strong><\/a> once 2015 is said and done.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEIA\">@SEIA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GTMResearch\">@GTMResearch<\/a> report shows 2015 shaping up to be US <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/solar?src=hash\">#solar<\/a>&#39;s BEST YEAR EVER!  Q4 to be record-breaking! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xgxx4Y2uoS\">https:\/\/t.co\/xgxx4Y2uoS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Solar Industry (@SEIA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEIA\/status\/674588443222122496\">December 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seia.org\/blog\/new-solar-system-activated-every-16-minutes-q3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activation of a new solar system in the United States occurred every 1.6 minutes in the third quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,6,29],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-solar-installations","tag-solar-power","tag-solar-statistics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}