{"id":28,"date":"2015-10-03T14:39:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=28"},"modified":"2015-12-22T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T19:51:49","slug":"solar-capacity-expected-to-grow-more-than-100-from-2014-to-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/solar-capacity-expected-to-grow-more-than-100-from-2014-to-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar capacity expected to grow more than 100% from 2014 to 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Energy Information Association (EIA) expects utility-scale solar capacity to grow by more than 100 percent between the end of 2014 and the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">EIA expects utility-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/solar?src=hash\">#solar<\/a> capacity will increase by more than 100% between the end of 2014 and the end of 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/6kn4fhx7dB\">http:\/\/t.co\/6kn4fhx7dB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EIA (@EIAgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EIAgov\/status\/641927924510269441\">September 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Three states lead the way<\/h2>\n<p>According to the EIA, 4.1 GW of new solar power capacity is being built in California through the end of 2016. California currently leads the nation with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.californiasolarstatistics.ca.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">more than 411,00 solar projects.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina and Nevada are the two other states that are making large contributions to utility-scale solar capacity. These three states (California, North Carolina and Nevada) together account for almost 70 percent of estimated utility-scale solar power capacity additions for 2015 and 2016, the EIA said.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia is also contributing to utility-scale solar capacity in the short term, as the EIA noted Georgia&#8217;s plans to construct 13 solar projects in the state that have eiother 2015 or 2016 in-service dates.<\/p>\n<h2>Hydropower generation decreases expected<\/h2>\n<p>Increases in solar generation may be offset by decreases in hydropower generation.<\/p>\n<p>The EIA forecasts a 10.4 percent decrease in conventional hydropower generation in 2015 due to the effects of the California drought. Non-hydropower renewable energy generation is predicted to increase by 3.2 percent in 2015.<\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.gov\/forecasts\/steo\/report\/renew_co2.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">EIA<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Energy Information Association (EIA) expects utility-scale solar capacity to grow by more than 100 percent between the end of 2014 and the end of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41,6],"class_list":["post-28","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\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}