Solar Power Growth 2017

Solar power was the fastest growing source of new energy worldwide last year outstripping the growth in all other forms of power generation for the first time and leading experts to hail a new.

Solar power growth 2017.

Cumulative installed capacity exceeded 401 gw by the end of the year sufficient to supply 2 1 percent of the world s total electricity consumption. The new capacity brings the total operating solar power in the world to 405 gw 89 percent of which was installed in the last seven years according to iflscience. So much for china not pulling their weight donald. Solar power growth leaps by 50 worldwide thanks to us and china this article is more than 3 years old.

In 2017 photovoltaic capacity increased by 95 gw with a 34 growth year on year of new installations. The growth of solar power 2017 update september 1 2017 charlieonenergy ray kurzweil the futurist and director of engineering at google predicts that solar power will grow at an exponential rate throughout the 21st century. The latest figures for the end of 2017 show that china has continued to build solar power at an astonishing rate adding 53gw in 2017. India also had a huge year in 2017.