{"id":477,"date":"2016-03-25T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=477"},"modified":"2016-03-25T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:31:52","slug":"u-s-had-record-breaking-solar-growth-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/u-s-had-record-breaking-solar-growth-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. had record-breaking solar growth in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Records broken in 2015 &amp; more of the same expected in 2016<\/h2>\n<p>Last year was a record-breaking one for solar power generation in the U.S., and 2016 looks to have an even brighter future, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) said in a recent report.<\/p>\n<p>According to the SEIA&#8217;s <em>U.S. Solar Market Insight Report 2015 Year in Review<\/em>, a record 7.3 gigawatts (GW) of solar power was installed in the United States in 2015. <\/p>\n<p>This brought the total installed solar capacity in the U.S. up to 27.4 GW, which is enough to power 5.4 million American homes. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORT: 2015 was a record year for U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/solar?src=hash\">#solar<\/a> &#8212; and 2016 is going to smash it \u2600\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xOuCcecXM5\">https:\/\/t.co\/xOuCcecXM5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEIA\">@SEIA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MmtY5wwaTm\">pic.twitter.com\/MmtY5wwaTm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Energy Department (@ENERGY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ENERGY\/status\/707949167449088004\">March 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Growth of 119 percent expected in 2016<\/h3>\n<p>Even greater growth is expected in installed solar capacity this year, the SEIA noted. Experts estimate installation of an additional 16 GW in 2016, which would represent 119 percent year-over-year growth.<\/p>\n<h3>Utility-scale efforts lead the way<\/h3>\n<p>Utility-scale installations should  make up roughly 74 percent of the installations in 2016, the SEIA said. But utility-scale solar installations aren&#8217;t the only type that should see increases this year &#8212; strong growth is also expected in both residential and commercial markets this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The brand new top 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/solar?src=hash\">#solar<\/a> states revealed! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SolarIsNow?src=hash\">#SolarIsNow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PNC1mySnOT\">https:\/\/t.co\/PNC1mySnOT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3X8GbaC21J\">pic.twitter.com\/3X8GbaC21J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Solar Industry (@SEIA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEIA\/status\/710150148626784258\">March 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Orginally published on &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-wisdom.com\/news\/solar-energy-broke-records-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">E-Wisdom<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the SEIA&#8217;s U.S. Solar Market Insight Report 2015 Year in Review, a record 7.3 gigawatts (GW) of solar power was installed in the United States in 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65,3,52],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-65","tag-solar-energy","tag-united-states"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}