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As originally published on www.woodmac.com In an extraordinary year, the US solar industry soldiered through pandemic setbacks to set new records across utility and residential markets in 2020. The US solar industry saw staggering 43% year-on-year growth in 2020, in its biggest ever year for annual installations. Quarterly records were also broken, with the eight gigawatts, direct current (GWdc) of capacity installed in Q4 2020 representing a 32% year-on-year increase. Pent-up demand from pandemic-related disruption during the second quarter of 2020 combined with a surge in interest for home improvements to generate record-breaking sales pipelines for residential solar in the second half of the year.

According to the latest “US Energy Storage Monitor” report from Wood Mackenzie and the U. S. Energy Storage Association (ESA), 2,156 MWh of new energy storage systems were brought online in Q4 2020. Massachusetts led the non-residential segment in Q4, which is growing more slowly than the other two U. S. storage segments and deployed 76.5 MWh during the quarter. The U. S. storage market will add five-times more megawatts of storage in 2025 than was added in 2020, with FTM storage continuing to contribute between 75-85% of new megawatt-capacity each year. “2020 is the first year that advanced energy storage deployments surpassed gigawatt scale – a tremendous milestone on the path to our aspiration of 100 GW by 2030,” said Jason Burwen, U. S. Energy Storage Association Interim CEO.

I acquired the last block of commercial land with over 20 acres, we looked for uses, and in 2015 NY State offered Community Solar, the land was ideal,” said Lee Keet, CEO of Developed by Sunvestment and constructed by RER Energy Group, the project received crucial support from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), supporting New York State’s nation-leading clean energy initiatives. The community will actually see the tangible benefits of the project.” “Human health and environmental health are absolutely linked, the quality of resources effects the health status,” said Sylvia Getman, President of Adirondack Health. We have developed more solar in NY than in any other state because NY has more favorable policies than most states, such as the ability to establish community solar projects where the energy created at one location can be credited to individual homes, businesses and other organizations.

Gordon Smith, the project manager with RER, said the sun’s energy can penetrate through a moderate layer of snow to the solar cells but that the snow seriously reduces the amount of energy panels can absorb. Smith explained that Hassman’s son and his son’s friend — both RER employees — were only clearing off the solar panels so the attendees on Zoom could see their handiwork. RER Energy Group President Jim Kurtz said the solar array has an estimated lifetime of 35 years and that in that time it is estimated to produce $9 million worth of electricity. Max Joel, who manages the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s NY-Sun Program, said 2020 was New York’s biggest year for solar development.