Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has revealed that solar energy is set to grow by more than 30% over the next year, generating an increase in capacity not seen since the last boom in shale gas. Solar power capacity in the U.S. has increased 20-fold since 2008, boosted by both residential growth across a number of sun-friendly states, as well as a series of large-scale developments that have transformed the country's PV landscape. The giant Topaz array in California, coupled with the thousands of new solar customers added every month thanks to suppliers such as SolarCity, NRG Energy and Vivint Solar, have slowly transformed an energy landscape that was last shaken up by the shale gas boom a few years ago. In April, Michael Blaha of Wood Mackenzie Ltd. told Bloomberg: "Solar is the new shale. Share has lowered cost and enable lower natural gas prices. Solar will lower costs for electricity." Solar's ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...