Solar Power Growth 2017

The new capacity brings the total operating solar power in the world to 405 gw 89 percent of which was installed in the last seven years according to iflscience.

Solar power growth 2017.

Solar power was the fastest growing source of new energy worldwide last year outstripping the growth in all other forms of power generation for the first time and leading experts to hail a new. The latest figures for the end of 2017 show that china has continued to build solar power at an astonishing rate adding 53gw in 2017. Solar power growth leaps by 50 worldwide thanks to us and china this article is more than 3 years old. China remains the world s leader in solar power installing 52 8 gw in 2017 which accounted for 53 percent of new global solar capacity added last year.

India also had a huge year in 2017. This puts them at a total of 131gw of solar almost four times the uk s average total electricity demand. Cumulative installed capacity exceeded 401 gw by the end of the year sufficient to supply 2 1 percent of the world s total electricity consumption. In 2017 photovoltaic capacity increased by 95 gw with a 34 growth year on year of new installations.