Growth of photovoltaics

The United States was the leader of installed photovoltaics for many years, 143 China has one third of the world''s installed solar panel capacity and is the largest domestic market for solar panels. U.S. states poised to reach grid-parity

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Growth of photovoltaics

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The United States was the leader of installed photovoltaics for many years, and its total capacity was 77 megawatts in 1996, more than any other country in the world at the time. From the late 1990s, Japan was the world''s leader of solar electricity production until 2005, when Germany took the lead and by 2016 had a capacity of over 40 gigawatts. In 2015, China surpassed Germany to become t

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