California Leads the Nation in Customer-Generated Solar Power

California Public Utilities Commission, July 2, 2012

The California Public Utilities Commission's "2012 California Solar Initiative Annual Program Assessment" shows that in 2011California reached a major milestone by becoming the first state in the nation to install more than 1 gigawatt of customer-generated solar energy; a record 311 megawatts were installed in the investor-owned utility territories in 2011 alone. Currently more than 122,000 sites across the state host solar systems to serve on-site solar generation. Further, since 2007, costs for residential solar system have decreased by 28 percent and CSI projects in low income markets (areas with median incomes of less than $50,000) have increased by 364 percent.

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/F656D3CA-7724-48FB-81C7-6BDD3AE19CB3/0/SolarReport.pdf