"Coming off a record year for U.S. solar installations in 2016, the first quarter of 2017 wasn’t so bad either, according to  data released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the industry’s lead trade group.

The U.S. saw the installation of more than 2 gigawatts, or billion watts, of new solar capacity, a quarter of it on individual rooftops, according to a Thursday report by SEIA and GTM Research.

That ranks solar second to natural gas overall for new U.S. electricity installations in the quarter, and was only a slight — 2 percent — year-on-year decline."

Chris Mooney reports for the Washington Post June 9, 2017. [2]