Despite Opposition, Solar Posts Biggest Quarter Ever

What’s newThe U.S. switched on more than 11 gigawatts of residential, commercial, and utility-scale solar between April and June. 43% of all new electrical capacity added was utility-scale solar, and total operating US solar now totals 288 gigawatts. That’s not just some big number. There are millions of individual stories tied into that total. 288 GW of total solar means that millions of people made the individual choice to either put solar on their homes, add solar to their commercial buildings, or advocate for solar in their communities.Then, hundreds of thousands of people had to sell those systems, design them, and install them. Batteries had an even bigger moment this summer. Storage installations hit a record 20.2 gigawatt-hours in the same three months, which is enough stored electricity to run somewhere around 700,000 average American homes for a full day in an outage. Today’s News Roundup is Brought to You By Exact SolarThis Week In Solar is always brought to you by Exact Solar, your locally owned, twenty-year-old solar installer for Pennsylvania and New Jersey.We’ve spent more than two decades doing work we’re proud of. We’ve put solar on schools, churches, nonprofits, Habitat for Humanity homes, and private businesses. The combined output of the solar energy systems we’ve installed for those organizations has kept millions of dollars in their pockets. That money can now be put to better use, instead of constantly paying ever-rising utility bills. If you own, run, or sit on the board of a commercial building in New Jersey or Pennsylvania, we’d love to show you how much your organization could save by going solar.Talk to Us About a Commercial Solar Project