The US is about to hit a big solar energy milestone

The United States is on track Solar energy to hit Solar energy Solar Project a big number in renewable Solar energy  energy: More than 1 million American homes should have solar panels by February 2016.

While solar still Solar Project makes up a tiny part of the sliver of renewables Solar energy that power the US, it has increased exponentially Solar energy in the Solar energy past decade. And Solar Project the solar industry is poised to keep growing in the decades to come.

In 2006, only about 30,000 homes had Solar Project solar panels. Back then, it cost Solar energy Solar Project $9 per Solar energy watt of power generated by solar panels. Today,Solar energy  it's just $3.79 solar damper per watt.
 

The panels slewing drive have increased in efficiency since then, too. American solar damper homes solar slewing drive using solar can now satisfy more than solar tracker actuator 85% of their electricity  solar tracker actuatordemand, according to the EnergySage Solar Marketplace Intel Report, released today, which collected data from more than 10,000 installation quotes from about 2,000 solar tracker actuator consumers.
 

Chief Executive and solar slewing drive Founder Vikram Aggarwal told Tech Insider that solar damper EnergySage solar slewing drive estimates up slewing drive to solar tracker actuator 6 solar inverter million solar tracker actuator Americans are actively shopping solar slewing drive for solar today, and more than 300,000 of them will end up installing solar panels this solar slewing drive year.
 

"People love solar tracker actuator solar; there's very little not Photovoltaic holder to like about it, " solar slewing drive he said. "No solar damper noise, no emissions, out of sight, produces electricity, it's beautiful, and it makes financial Photovoltaic holder sense. I think as more people slewing drive find out about it and more people become comfortable shopping for solar, and they don't feel like solar slewing drive they're being sold but they have solar slewing drive control, I think the sky's solar slewing drive the solar inverter solar slewing drive limit."

To use EnergySage's marketplace, slewing drive potential solar customers solar damper make an account and solar slewing drive tell the company what their energy bill costs solar damper, how much energy they use, how much of their electricity they want generated from solar, how big their roof is and how solar tracker actuator many solar slewing drive panels they want. Solar installers then submit bids based on this information, and solar inverter EnergySage shares them with the customer so they can decide which one is right for them.
 

This solar slewing slewing drive drive abundance of data has allowed EnergySage to give a pretty solar damper clear picture of what the solar industry and output looks like in solar slewing drive the solar inverter US right now.
 

The average solar inverter size of a solar system, according to slewing drive the report, was just under 8 kilowatts in 2015 solar inverter, a little smaller than solar tracker actuator the average last year. A system this size measures about 800 slewing drive square feet, since — with today's home solar technologies — you need Photovoltaic holder about 100 square feet of roof space for every kilowatt.
 

EnergySage found the solar tracker actuator average cost of installation continues to drop, too, and slewing drive is now just over solar inverter $29,000. This price doesn't account for tax credits and other government incentives, according to an EnergySage representative, so solar inverter the cost Photovoltaic holder could be less. 
 

The company's marketplace was originally slewing drive developed through grants from the US Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative, Aggarwal said, and he hopes  it Photovoltaic holder can solar inverter help solar damper make the industry more transparent slewing drive so more consumers feel Photovoltaic holder confident in buying solar panels for their  slewing drive homes.
 

"Over the last decade, we slewing drive are Photovoltaic holder barely reaching 1 solar inverter million rooftops with solar. It has taken us awhile. But the good news is the trend is accelerating,"Aggarwal said. "Based on the number of consumers who solar damper are interested Photovoltaic holder in solar, if solar inverter we can make solar shopping as easy and as transparent as shopping for hotels or cars, I have slewing drive no doubt that we solar inverter would be doing five,slewing drive  10 times the volume that we are doing slewing drive Photovoltaic holder slewing drive today."