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or much of the recent
rise of solar power, the industry has been divided in two: distributed rooftop
solar, and utility-scale solar parks.
According to a new report from GTM Research, a third type of
solar in which consumers share renewable energy installations is set to take
off this year — and to represent a large market share of the industry by 2020.
Known as community solar, solar gardens, or more simply
shared solar, GTM researchers found that the U.S. “market is approaching a
tipping point.”
With a total of 66 megawatts installed cumulatively by the
end of 2014, the report predicts that installations will grow five-fold in
2015, with 115 megawatts installed.
By 2020, there will be 1.8 gigawatts, nearly equivalent to
the total amount of solar power installed in the United States in 2012.
Read the ClimateProgress
story - “How Solar Power Is Learning To Share: The Rapid Growth Of Community Solar Gardens".
