{"id":20486,"date":"2014-01-03T13:52:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T13:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=316940"},"modified":"2014-01-03T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T13:52:33","slug":"3-graphics-illustrate-solars-rise-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/3-graphics-illustrate-solars-rise-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Graphics Illustrate Solar\u2019s Rise in 2013"},"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\/2014\/01\/threegraph-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Rob LaRosa\/Flickr Creative Commons\"><\/p>\n<p>The U.S.&#8217; 13-percent share of global solar installations last year marked a 30-year high and the end of a historic 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Though country received large investments for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightsourceenergy.com\/ivanpah-solar-project#.UsXYcWRDuGp\" target=\"_blank\">utility-scale projects<\/a>, the growth was largely brought on by <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/10\/22\/middle-class-homeowners-buyers-rooftop-solar\/\" target=\"_blank\">middle-class homeowners<\/a> who elected to go green. GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association compiled data and graphics in a recent report&nbsp;to drive home what an important year it was for solar. Here are a few samples:<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_316944\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"464\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-02-at-3.57.31-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic credit: GTM Research and Solar Energy Industries Association\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-02-at-3.57.31-PM.png\" width=\"464\" height=\"249\"><\/a> Graphic credit: GTM Research and Solar Energy Industries Association[\/caption]\n<p>The December report had predicted 100,000 projects by the end of the year.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_316945\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/solarmap1313.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"solarmap1313\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/solarmap1313.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/a> Graphic credit: GTM Research and Solar Energy Industries Association[\/caption]\n<p>&#8220;We are on the cusp of an unprecedented shift in the U.S. solar market and, by extension, the entire electricity market,&#8221; said Shayle Kann, vice president of GTM.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_316946\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/solarinfo1313.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic credit: GTM Research and Solar Energy Industries Association\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/solarinfo1313.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/a> Graphic credit: GTM Research and 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-20486","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\/20486","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=20486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}