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Don’t let Solyndra fool you: Solar PV is on fire - by Earth Policy Institute
http://www.grist.org/solar-power/2011-10-27-solar-pv-breaks-records-in-2010

Don’t let Solyndra fool you: Solar PV is on fire
by Earth Policy Institute
29 Oct 2011 1:51 PM

This post was written by J. Matthew Roney, research associate for the Earth Policy Institute. Additional resources at www.earth-policy.org

Solar photovoltaic (PV) companies manufactured a record 24,000 megawatts (MW) of PV cells worldwide in 2010, more than doubling their 2009 output. Annual PV production has grown nearly 100-fold since 2000, when just 277 MW of cells were made. Newly installed PV also set a record in 2010, as 16,600 MW were installed in more than 100 countries. This brought the total worldwide capacity of solar PV to nearly 40,000 MW -- enough to power 14 million European homes.



<snip more charts and graphs and excellent analysis from Earth Policy Institute>
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