How solar panels harvest solar energy
January 25, 2023 /
- Every hour, enough sunlight shines on the earth to power the entire planet with solar energy for one year.1
- Thanks to declining technology costs, supportive policies like the Inflation Reduction Act, and increasing demand for renewable energy, there are over 135 gigawatts of installed solar capacity in the US.2
- That’s enough to power 24 million households with clean energy,3 harnessed by solar panels that work like this.
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1 “Turning Sunlight into Fuel,” Columbia Climate School, Renee Cho, August 24, 2016.
2, 3 U.S. Solar Market Insight, Solar Energy Industries Association, as of December 13, 2022.