{"id":2579,"date":"2010-10-25T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/solar-booming-nationwide.html"},"modified":"2010-10-25T07:42:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T11:42:45","slug":"solar-booming-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/solar-booming-nationwide.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar Booming Nationwide (so why not here?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nWhile the Wall Street Journal says biomass is\na money-losing proposition<\/a>,\nStacy Feldman notes in Solve Climate News that\n\nU.S. Solar Market Booms, With Utility-Scale Projects Leading the Way<\/a>:\n
\nAmerica could add 10 gigawatts of solar power every year by 2015, enough\nto power 2 million new homes annually, industry and market analysts have\nclaimed in a new report.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
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The Solar Energy\nIndustries Association<\/a> and GTM Research<\/a>, a Cambridge, Mass.-based market\nresearch firm, said the figures represent a tenfold surge compared to\n2010, which is on track to set its own record.<\/p>\n

A full gigawatt of solar may get installed\nthis year for the first time, the report, U.S. Solar Market Insight<\/em><\/a>, said\u2014a roughly\n150 percent leap from the 441 megawatts added last year.<\/p>\n

One factor driving the boom is the ramp-up in large utility-scale\nphotovoltaic (PV) setups.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nWe’d already heard\n\nfrom the director of the U.S. DoE’s\nNational Center for Photovoltaics that:<\/a>\n

\n“The solar market is the fastest-growing market worldwide, bar none.”\n<\/blockquote>\nHe said that in Buffalo, where solar business is booming,\na thousand miles north of here.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nMeanwhile, a thousand miles west of here,\n\nin Austin, Texas:<\/a>\n

\nInvestment firm \nPowerFin Partners LLC<\/a> is offering to finance more than $100 million\nworth of commercial and utility-scale solar projects in the US and Canada.\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nA bit closer, Houston has successfully put solar\non rooftops and refitted for efficiency and conservation inside houses.<\/a>\nHouston, which has less solar energy on average than Lowndes County does.\n

\nSomebody remind me why the local Industrial Authority is promoting\na money-losing polluting biomass plant when it could be putting in\nan industrial-grade money-making no-fuel no-emission solar plant?\nOr why the local municipal governments and school boards aren’t\nleading the way with solar on their rooftops and efficiency inside?\n

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