Residential solar capacity in the US could triple to one GW by 2025, according to Credit Suisse. Its report said only about 3% of the country’s rooftops had solar plants compared to the 30% figure for Australia. Even in the states with the highest levels of rooftop solar, Hawaii and California, just 14% and 6%, respectively, of family homes had rooftop solar panels. Credit Suisse said 41 problem for US rooftop solar was that the country’s utilities had fought against customer-owned and sited energy plants. That had helped cause what the company called “significant hiccups” in US solar.
Residential solar capacity in the US could triple to 41 GW by 2025, according to Credit Suisse. Its report said only about 3% of the country’s rooftops had solar plants compared to the 30% figure for Australia. Even in the states with the highest levels of rooftop solar, Hawaii and California, just 14% and 6%, respectively, of family homes had rooftop solar panels. Credit Suisse said one problem for US rooftop solar was that the country’s utilities had fought against customer-owned and sited energy plants. That had helped cause what the company called “significant hiccups” in US solar.