- Calgary and Edmonton are among the top three sunniest cities in Canada.
- Germany gets half of its electricity from solar power. And 90 percent of Germany’s solar panels are on individuals’ roofs (The Week, June 20, 2014).
- All new roofs in France must be covered in plants or solar (The Guardian, March 20, 2015).
- Denmark will get 100% of its electricity and heating from renewables by 2035 (Greenpeace, October 27, 2014).
- In five U.S. cities, power from rooftop solar units costs the same as or less than electricity from the grid (Renew Economy, May 25, 2015).
- The number of solar jobs in the U.S. has doubled in the last five years (CNN, January 12, 2016).
- Solar arrays substantially increase home resale value (Berkeley Lab, January 13, 2015).
- The U.S. solar industry now employs more workers than oil and gas (Guardian, January 12, 2016).
- Solar energy is more lucrative than crops at some U.S. farms (Bloomberg, March 29, 2016).
- The United States has over 1,000,000 solar installations and more than 200,000 Americans working in the solar industry (CNBC, May 9, 2016).
