The growth in installed solar power capacity over the past several years is nothing short of astonishing. Decreased costs and innovative financing mechanisms, along with supportive policy at national, state and local levels has helped solar power take off. Traditional fossil-based power generation sources like coal and natural gas had a huge head start and continue to dominate the world’s power generation mix, but if the recent momentum behind the renewable energy technology can be sustained, solar power can quickly gain ground, as the following infographic shows.

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