{"id":521,"date":"2016-04-17T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=521"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:22:39","slug":"indianapolis-a-u-s-leader-in-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/indianapolis-a-u-s-leader-in-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis: A U.S. leader in solar power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Indianapolis&#8217; day in the sun<\/h2>\n<p>A recent report analyzed solar adoption in the U.S. and ranked cities based on their ability to generate solar power. Somewhat surprisingly, Indianapolis ranked extremely well.<\/p>\n<p>The Frontier Group and Environment Texas co-authored the study, titled the <em>Shining Cities Report<\/em>, which aimed to break down the record-breaking solar expansion in the U.S. with a regional lens.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings are largely filled with expected cities in the West and Southwest that are famous for bright sunshine and hot summers &#8212; Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Honolulu &#8212; but Indianapolis also made an appearance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Indianapolis scores the top <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/solar?src=hash\">#solar<\/a> ranking in the N Central Region! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShiningCities?src=hash\">#ShiningCities<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndyMayorJoe\">@IndyMayorJoe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0XNNdaYs2I\">pic.twitter.com\/0XNNdaYs2I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Environment America (@EnvAm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnvAm\/status\/717805360220745728\">April 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Indianapolis<\/h3>\n<p>The <em>Shining Cities Report<\/em> looked specifically at two indicators to judge the &#8220;solarness&#8221; of a city: total solar power capacity and solar capacity per capita.<\/p>\n<p>It was the latter, solar capacity per capita, where Indianapolis excelled, as the relatively small city has apparently been making a large investment in solar energy in recent years.<\/p>\n<h3>Top 10 solar cities in the U.S. (solar capacity per capita)<\/h3>\n<p>While Honolulu led the U.S. in solar capacity per capita by a large amount, Indianapolis had an impressive showing, as well, beating out notoriously sunny West Coast cities &#8212; some by a wide margin.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Honolulu: 417 watts per capita (W)<\/li>\n<li>Indianapolis: 146 W<\/li>\n<li>San Jose: 139 W<\/li>\n<li>San Diego: 136 W<\/li>\n<li>Albuquerque: 114 W<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix: 96 W<\/li>\n<li>Las Vegas: 94 W<\/li>\n<li>New Orleans: 90 W<\/li>\n<li>Riverside, CA: 88 W<\/li>\n<li>San Antonio: 75 W<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Read more about the report<\/h3>\n<div id=\"inlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/california-cities-are-leading-the-way-in-solar-power\/\" title=\"California cities are leading the way in solar power\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/solar-modules-924333_1280_2-150x150.jpg\" title=\"California cities are leading the way in solar power\" alt=\"California cities are leading the way in solar power\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/california-cities-are-leading-the-way-in-solar-power\/\" title=\"California cities are leading the way in solar power\"><h4>California cities are leading the way in solar power<\/h4><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/california-cities-are-leading-the-way-in-solar-power\/\" title=\"California cities are leading the way in solar power\" class=\"hide375\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Orginally published on &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-wisdom.com\/news\/indianapolis-surprises-as-one-of-the-top-solar-cities-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">E-Wisdom<\/a><\/span><div class=\"pd-photo-att\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Indy_Central_Canal.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photo<\/a> by Daniel Schwen \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report analyzed solar adoption in the U.S. and ranked cities based on their ability to generate solar power. Indianapolis ranked very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,6],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-solar-energy","tag-solar-power"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}