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Residential rooftop photovoltaic (PV) installations have tripled over the past ten years. With so many organizations and individuals adopting solar, it is now growing faster than any power source in history — the industry is constructing a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels every 15 hours. That’s more or less what one coal-fired plant generates.
Thank you, solar! Because of its mass acceptance as a viable energy solution, solar has helped global emissions to track below former worst-case assumptions. In fact, experts say solar will become the world’s single largest source of electricity in the next six years.
We are very interested in solar energy here at CleanTechnica. Over the last year we asked readers to answer a series of survey questions; their responses became the foundation for a newly released report, which is now available for purchase. We decided to conduct the survey because we were aware that detailed data on consumer perceptions about rooftop solar installations and lifestyles were underreported, especially observations about rooftop solar attitudes and installation comfort levels.
Our results indicate that nearly all consumers who have installed rooftop solar PV systems have a high satisfaction rate with their systems. A minority of respondents, many of whom do not have rooftop solar installations, did express concerns about solar marketing. These individuals revealed a small but important pattern in which some solar companies offered mixed messages and a bit of unwarranted optimism about post-installation cost benefits.
