California more than doubles solar power in 2013

SACRAMENTO – 2013 has been an impressive year for solar power.

In the past 12 months, California more than doubled its entire rooftop solar installations from 1,000 megawatts (MW) to over 2,000 MW.

To put this in perspective, it took California over 30 years to build 1,000 MW of rooftop solar, hitting that landmark in early 2013. Today, California is closing out the year with more than 2,000 MW of rooftop solar systems installed statewide. The CPUC’s latest figures report 1,917 MW of rooftop solar, but those numbers exclude basically all of PG&E’s 2013 installations, by far the largest m...