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Solar PV in a Larger Electric Power Context

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Today in early 2014, solar PV has grown to a cumulated world wide installed capacity of 135 GW. Also significantly, the US in 2013 installed a total of 5 GW of solar which is equivalent to the electric power production capacity of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. But, how does solar PV fit into the larger picture for total US electric power generation? At the end of 2013, the accumulated installed capacity of PV in the US was 13 GW out of the total US installed electric power capacity of 1,100 GW. While this is small at 1.2 % relative to the total, solar PV is now growing rapidly. It grew by 41 % in 2013.

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Fraas, L.M. (2014). Solar PV in a Larger Electric Power Context. In: Low-Cost Solar Electric Power. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07530-3_9

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