Solar power in America is on a roll. Over the last decade, the cost of solar installations in the U.S. has fallen by more than 70 percent, and every year has had more solar installed than the last.
Since 2010, the nation’s solar power capacity has grown fifteenfold. And employment in the U.S. solar industry recently surpassed 200,000 people — that’s more than the oil and gas extraction industry, and three times more than the coal-mining industry.