- Solar panel prices declined an astonishing 75 percent from 2008 to 2012.
- In the United States, solar capacity has quintupled since 2008, and grown by more than 50 times since 2000,according to US Energy Information Administration data.
- In 1977, solar panels cost $77 per watt. Today, they are less than a dollar per watt.
- Germany generated 5 percent of its electricity from solar last year. By contrast, last year the United States produced just 0.18 percent of its electricity from solar, according to the EIA.
- For a few hours during a sunny weekend day, solar provided 50 percent of Germany’s electricity; only five percent of the country’s total electricity came from solar in 2012.
Source:http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/michael-shellenberger-and-ted-nordhaus/no-solar-way-around-it/
