High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft to buy additional rights. ft/cms/s/0/d6d0b2fc-7157-11e3-8f92-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2qpiq7FTk “Without a doubt, 2013 will go down as a record-shattering year for the US solar industry,” says Rhone Resch, the association’s chief executive. “We’ve now joined Germany, China and Japan as worldwide leaders when it comes to the installation of new solar capacity.” The US still has some way to go to catch up with the cumulative capacity of Germany, which had more than 32,400MW of solar PV installed at the end of 2012, more than four times as much as the US. However, that gap is likely to keep shrinking if well-known US companies continue to launch technological advances in areas such as solar energy storage. “We’re still very much in the infancy of storage,” says MJ Shiao, a solar analyst at GTM Research. “But when you have big companies like SolarCity doing this, it helps move the conversation forward.”
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