{"id":19924,"date":"2013-12-15T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T14:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=315289"},"modified":"2013-12-15T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T14:46:11","slug":"4-infographics-show-how-much-solar-power-is-installed-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/4-infographics-show-how-much-solar-power-is-installed-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Infographics Show How Much Solar Power Is Installed in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/solarinstall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"solarinstall\"><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/12\/10\/solar-installations-soar-to-second-best-quarter-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">record-setting<\/a> third quarter for U.S. solar energy installations brings the nation&#8217;s total to a whopping 10.25 gigawatts (GW).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough to make the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) predict that the U.S. could finally rise up the ranks to beat <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/12\/06\/solar-market-surpass-germany\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> in&nbsp;new solar photovoltaic (PV)&nbsp;installations next year. Included in that figure&mdash;the country&#8217;s second-best quarter&mdash;was&nbsp;the residential sector&#8217;s record of 186 megawatts (MW) in installations.<\/p>\n<p>Just how much is 10.25 GW? SEIA explores that question with a few infographics:<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_315294\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seia.org\/research-resources\/10250-megawatts-solar-energy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic credit: Solar Energy Industries Association\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ch1.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\"><\/a> Graphic credit: Solar Energy Industries Association[\/caption]\n<p>&nbsp;The 10.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide displaced by the solar installations is also equivalent to taking millions of cars off our roads or planting even more trees.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_315356\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/seiacars.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic credit: Solar Energy Industries Association\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/seiacars.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\"><\/a> Graphic credit: Solar Energy Industries Association[\/caption]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_315302\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-11-at-11.12.23-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic credit: Solar Energy Industries Association\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-11-at-11.12.23-AM.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\"><\/a> Graphic credit: Solar Energy Industries Association[\/caption]\n<p>&nbsp;The 930 MW in third-quarter installations also pushed the U.S. into the company of other countries with 10 GW of solar power, such as Japan, China, Germany and Italy.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_315333\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/seiagraph.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic credit: Solar Energy Industries Association\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/seiagraph.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"164\"><\/a> Graphic credit: Solar Energy Industries Association[\/caption]\n<p><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/renewable-business\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RENEWABLES<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;page for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oi.vresp.com\/?fid=00b11039e0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner121\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/topnewsbanner1211.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[2892,12198,2913],"class_list":["post-19924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-business","tag-featured-business","tag-renewables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}