U.S. Solar Market Trends 2012

In this issue, the capacity of photovoltaic (PV) installations increased by 80 percent in 2012, compared with 2011. And over 50 percent of that capacity was in the utility sector for the first time. “In 2012, more than 90,000 photovoltaic installations were installed in the U.S. with a total capacity of 3.3 GW. This represents a 75 percent increase over installations completed in 2011,” according to Larry Sherwood, IREC vice president & COO and author of IREC’s Solar Market and Installation Trends Report 2013.