Solar Power Passes 3 Terawatts!

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Solar power has passed another big milestone. Solar has reached and quickly surpassed the 3-terawatt — yes, terawatt — marker globally. That’s how much solar power is installed across the world.

Naturally, a lot of the growth was from China, but a lot of it was also from emerging markets around the world.

The data come from BloombergNEF (BNEF), which also notes that the world went from 100 gigawatts (GW) in 2012 to 1 terawatt (1,000 GW) in 2022 or so. Another terawatt of solar power was installed within a few years, and now getting from two TW to three took less then two years.