{"id":231,"date":"2015-12-23T08:59:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-12-23T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T14:46:26","slug":"installed-solar-capacity-in-the-u-s-grew-by-54-percent-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/installed-solar-capacity-in-the-u-s-grew-by-54-percent-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Installed solar capacity in the U.S. grew by 54 percent in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Big increases in solar capacity seen in 2014<\/h2>\n<p>Installed solar capacity in the United States increased by more than 54 percent in 2014, according to a recently published report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, solar electricity accounted for just under half &#8212; 48 percent &#8212; of total renewable electricity capacity installed in the U.S. in 2014, and cumulative installed solar capacity grew by more than 51 percent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Solar installed capacity increased more than 54% in 2014 &#8211; This &amp; more in new NREL Data Book <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GQjwtXgZa4\">https:\/\/t.co\/GQjwtXgZa4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7i5D8aP7W8\">pic.twitter.com\/7i5D8aP7W8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NREL (@NREL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NREL\/status\/675381540436643841\">December 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Still room to grow<\/h2>\n<p>Despite the aforementioned big percentage jumps in yearly <em>installed<\/em> renewable electricity capacity, solar still trails other renewable sources in overall production, so there is room to grow.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) sources accounted for 6 percent of total renewable electricity generation, compared to about 46 percent for hydropower, 33 percent for wind sources, 12 percent for biomass sources and 3 percent for geothermal sources.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/solar-capacity-expected-to-grow-more-than-100-from-2014-to-2016\/\" title=\"Solar capacity expected to grow more than 100% from 2014 to 2016\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/solar-panels_6hd323w-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Solar capacity expected to grow more than 100% from 2014 to 2016\" alt=\"Solar capacity expected to grow more than 100% from 2014 to 2016\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/solar-capacity-expected-to-grow-more-than-100-from-2014-to-2016\/\" title=\"Solar capacity expected to grow more than 100% from 2014 to 2016\"><h4>Solar capacity expected to grow more than 100% from 2014 to 2016<\/h4><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/solar-capacity-expected-to-grow-more-than-100-from-2014-to-2016\/\" title=\"Solar capacity expected to grow more than 100% from 2014 to 2016\" class=\"hide375\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>Solar PV and CSP<\/h2>\n<p>On a global basis, solar PV and CSP are among the fastest growing renewable electricity<br \/>\ntechnologies, the NREL noted. The combined capacity of these two sources grew by more than 28 percent worldwide in 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Globally, PV &amp; CSP are fastest growing RE techs, up 28% &#8211; This &amp; more in new NREL Data Book <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GQjwtXgZa4\">https:\/\/t.co\/GQjwtXgZa4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0F9nJZcGGb\">pic.twitter.com\/0F9nJZcGGb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NREL (@NREL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NREL\/status\/677198009092804608\">December 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Global growth in renewable energy<\/h2>\n<p>It appears as if the world is ready to invest in renewable energy sources. According to the NREL report, new investments in renewable energy grew to $310 billion globally, which represents a 16 percent year-over-year from 2013 to 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Globally, new investments in renewables in 2014 grew by 16% from 2013 \u2014 to $310,000,000,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xyUgd1JCEI\">https:\/\/t.co\/xyUgd1JCEI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YB1OyZnwZ5\">pic.twitter.com\/YB1OyZnwZ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Climate Reality (@ClimateReality) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClimateReality\/status\/677421981088751616\">December 17, 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.nrel.gov\/news\/press\/2015\/21604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installed solar capacity in the United States increased by more than 54 percent in 2014, according to a recently published report from the NREL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41,6],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-electricity","tag-solar-power"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}