[Vision2020] Good News About Solar Power

[Kenneth Marcy]

Here are seven headlines about solar power development  taken from the 
following source:

http://www.abb-conversations.com/2013/12/7-impressive-solar-energy-facts-charts/ 



*1. Even yearly energy potential from sunshine dwarfs total energy 
potential from any other source.

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*2. Approximately 66% of installed world solar PV power capacity has 
been installed in the past 2½ years*.


*3. Global solar PV power capacity grew from about 2.2 GW in 2002 to 100 
GW in 2012.*


*4. There are now about 1.36 million jobs in the global solar PV industry.


**5. Germany accounted for nearly one third of global solar PV capacity 
at the end of 2012.


**6. The price of solar PV panels dropped about 100 times over from 1977 
to 2012.


**7. The sunshine hitting Texas in one month contains more energy than 
all the oil and gas ever pumped out of the state.


http://www.abb-conversations.com/2013/12/7-impressive-solar-energy-facts-charts/ 



Ken
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