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9 Signs That Americans Will See Solar Power Everywhere Within The Decade

Rob WileMay 8, 2013, 01:52 IST

Treehugger.com/PSE&GMars Corp.'s New Jersey solar arrayLast week, Massachusetts announced it had reached its goal of obtaining 250 megawatts of power — enough to power multiple mid-sized cities — four years early.

It's another sign that, as we've recently discussed, solar is booming.

The main reason is China, which has so thoroughly flooded the global market with cheap parts that today, Europe slapped them with a new tariff.

As Bloomberg's Bruce Einhorn wrote last year, "China’s solar panel industry has become the world’s biggest thanks to a simple formula: Produce in China, sell in Europe."

But there are other signs that solar power is set to take off.

We've compiled some of them here.