Where did the world’s solar power add 50% last year?

A worker maintains photo-voltaic panels at Xinyi station in Songxi, China. Photograph: Feature China/Barcroft Images The amount of solar power added worldwide soared by some 50% last year because of a sun rush in the US and China, new figures show.

Are solar panels the future of electricity?

Panels now occupy an area around half that of Wales, and this year they will provide the world with about 6% of its electricity—which is almost three times as much electrical energy as America consumed back in 1954. Yet this historic growth is only the second-most-remarkable thing about the rise of solar power.

Will solar power be the world's biggest source of electricity?

The next ten-fold increase will be equivalent to multiplying the world’s entire fleet of nuclear reactors by eight in less than the time it typically takes to build just a single one of them. Solar cells will in all likelihood be the single biggest source of electrical power on the planet by the mid 2030s.

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Is solar power still a tenth of its current size?

Such sustained growth is seldom seen in anything that matters. That makes it hard for people to get their heads round what is going on. When it was a tenth of its current size ten years ago, solar power was still seen as marginal even by experts who knew how fast it had grown.

Is solar power over?

The most remarkable is that it is nowhere near over. Read more in our series on solar energy: To call solar power’s rise exponential is not hyperbole, but a statement of fact. Installed solar capacity doubles roughly every three years, and so grows ten-fold each decade. Such sustained growth is seldom seen in anything that matters.