Comments on: World Solar PV Capacity Surpasses 100 Gigawatts In 2012

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:52:00 +0000

Wouldn’t disagree.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:56:00 +0000

kate – we all realize the Sun does not shine 24 hours a day.

100 GW of panels installed means that for every hour of usable sunlight we get 100 GWhs of electricity. Since the US averages over 4 ‘solar hours’ per day were we to install 100 GW then on average we would generate over 400 GWhs of electricity per day.

CO2 emissions for many European countries and for the US are dropping. Not fast enough, clearly, to offset rising CO2 emissions from other countries. Most countries are working on the problem and vastly cheaper solar panels gives us one more tool to use.

By: anderlan

anderlan — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:34:00 +0000

Crap, we should be increasing this by 100GW PER YEAR. That’s the volume needed for the flat panel manufacturers to consider re-tooling. Solar power is still in its infancy: we create WAY MORE square meters of power-using display panels per year than power-generating panels. We must speed up. MORE. MOAR!

By: cynthia shahan

cynthia shahan — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:20:00 +0000

Thank you for your realism. I am being hopeful, no doubt, that things are changing, but as you note, they are not fast enough, and should have years past already. Still hope is alive and the focus on this type of energy brings it to public view more and hopefully becomes as common as the Campbell soup can used to be.

By: kate

kate — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:37:00 +0000

Even with 100 GW of grid solar power there been no reduction in emission around the world it just a figure like any thing else, it not a real representation of solar power.
We don’t produce 100 GW of this energy on any given day that a fact, I’ve got 5kw of solar power hardy ever see it produce 5kw on average 2.5kw per hour like the above 100GW would only be half that amount.