14 DAY TRIAL // Recent figures say that, in the year 2013 alone, the state of California in the United States installed more rooftop solar than it did during the previous three decades.
Thus, EcoWatch tells us that, over the course of just twelve months, rooftop solar in said state upped from about 1,000 megawatts to over 2,000 megawatts.
Otherwise put, California needed just one year to double the rooftop solar installations it initially took three decades to build.
“When utility-scale solar projects are added in, California’s total solar power picture well-exceeds 4,000 MW today – nearly twice as much installed capacity as exists at California’s last remaining nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon,” explains Bernadette Del Chiaro with the California Solar Industries Association.
Specialists expect that, by the end of 2014, the state's overall rooftop solar will reach, maybe even surpass, 5,000 megawatts.
Even is this does not happen, odds are California will still be able to take pride in having exceeded the goals of the Million Solar Roofs Initiative, whose aim was to see 3,000 MW of rooftop solar installed by the year 2016.