The US Energy Information Administration has been reporting new highs for generation from residential small-scale photovoltaic systems under 1 megawatt in capacity every month since 2015, Electricity Today Magazine reports. For example, the June 2017 estimate for small-scale solar PV output hit a monthly record high of 1,460 gigawatt-hours – a year-over-year increase of 34.4% compared with the June 2016 level, according to preliminary 2016 and 2017 EIA data.
The growth in residential solar PV generation has coincided with the continued expansion of residential solar PV capacity, which increased by almost 35% from June 2016 (6.35 GW) to June 2017 (8.57 GW) and more than triple the 2014 value (2.68 GW), ET said.
In June 2017, 10 states accounted for 85% of U.S. residential small-scale solar PV electricity generation, according to estimated residential small-scale PV generation data released in EIA’s August 2017 Electric Power Monthly report.
ET’s full story is at www.electricity-today.com > Smart Grid > Grid Modernization.