{"id":23036,"date":"2014-03-06T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=324682"},"modified":"2014-03-06T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:04:26","slug":"10-states-that-led-solar-energy-to-a-monumental-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/10-states-that-led-solar-energy-to-a-monumental-year\/","title":{"rendered":"10 States That Led Solar Energy to a Monumental Year"},"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\/03\/solarss-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Shutterstock\"><\/p>\n<p>The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)&nbsp;this week illuminated just how far renewable energy has come in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Photovoltaic installations in the U.S. last year were about 15 times greater than they were in 2008, according to SEIA&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seia.org\/research-resources\/solar-market-insight-report-2013-year-review\" target=\"_blank\">Solar Market Insight Report 2013 Year in Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/02\/25\/solar-industrys-new-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">solar is the fastest-growing source of renewable energy<\/a>&nbsp;in America, generating enough clean, reliable and affordable electricity to power more than 2.2 million homes&mdash;and we&rsquo;re just beginning to scratch the surface of our industry&rsquo;s enormous potential,&#8221; SEIA CEO and President Rhone Resch <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/03\/05\/solar-industry-record-year-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ten states are lead the way for the industry&#8217;s record-setting year. View a slide about each state below, including some fascinating facts about each one.<\/p>\n<p>[blackoutgallery id=&#8221;324669&#8243;]<\/p>\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:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/topnewsbanner12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner12\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/topnewsbanner12.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-23036","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\/23036","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=23036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}