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World on the Edge - Energy Data - Solar World on the Edge - Energy Data - Solar World Solar Photovoltaics Production, 1975-2009 GRAPH: World Annual Solar Photovoltaics Production, 1985-2009 GRAPH: World Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Production, 1975-2009 Annual Solar Photovoltaics Production by Country, 1995-2009 GRAPH: Annual Solar Photovoltaics Production in Selected Countries, 1995-2009 Solar Photovoltaics Production in the United States, 1976-2009 GRAPH: Annual Solar Photovoltaics Production in the United States, 1985-2009 GRAPH: Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Production in the United States, 1976-2009 World Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Installations, 1998-2009 GRAPH: World Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Installations, 1998-2009 Annual Solar Photovoltaics Installations in Selected Countries and the World, 1998-2009 GRAPH: Annual Solar Photovoltaics Installations in Selected Countries, 1998-2009 Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Installations in Ten Leading Countries and the World, 2009 Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Installations in the United States, 1998-2009 GRAPH: Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Installations in the United States, 1998-2009 Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Installations in the European Union, 1998-2009 GRAPH: Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Installations in the European Union, 1998-2009 World Installed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Capacity, 1980-2009 GRAPH: World Installed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Capacity, 1980-2009 Solar Water and Space Heating Area in Selected Countries and the World, Total and Per Person, 2008 Cumulative Installed Solar Water and Space Heating Capacity in Ten Leading Countries and the World, 2008 A full listing of data for the entire book is on-line at: http://www.earth-policy.org/books/wote/wote_data This is part of a supporting dataset for Lester R. Brown, World On the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010). For more information and a free download of the book, see Earth Policy Institute on-line at www.earth-policy.org. World Solar Photovoltaics Production, 1975-2009 Year Annual Production Cumulative Production Megawatts 1975 2 2 1976 2 4 1977 2 6 1978 3 9 1979 4 13 1980 7 20 1981 8 28 1982 9 37 1983 17 54 1984 22 76 1985 23 99 1986 26 125 1987 29 154 1988 34 188 1989 40 228 1990 47 275 1991 55 330 1992 58 388 1993 60 448 1994 69 517 1995 78 594 1996 89 683 1997 126 809 1998 155 964 1999 201 1,165 2000 277 1,442 2001 371 1,813 2002 542 2,355 2003 749 3,104 2004 1,199 4,303 2005 1,782 6,086 2006 2,459 8,544 2007 3,746 12,290 2008 7,089 19,380 2009 10,680 30,060 Source: Compiled by Earth Policy Institute with 1975-1979 data from Worldwatch Institute, Signposts 2004 , CD-ROM (Washington, DC: 2004); 1980-2000 from Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 2007-2008 (Washington DC: 2008), p. 39; 2001- 2006 from Prometheus Institute and Greentech Media, "25th Annual Data Collection Results: PV Production Explodes in 2008," PVNews , vol. 28, no. 4 (April 2009), pp. 15-18; 2007-2009 from Shyam Mehta, GTM Research, e-mail to J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute, 21 June 2010. World Annual Solar Photovoltaics Production, 1985-2009 12,000 10,000 8,000 6,000 Megawatts 4,000 2,000 Earth Policy Institute - www.earth-policy.org 0 1985 1988 1991 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 Source: EPI from Worldwatch; Prometheus Institute; Greentech Media World Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Production, 1975-2009 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 Megawatts 10,000 5,000 0 Earth Policy Institute - www.earth-policy.org 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 Source: EPI from Worldwatch; Prometheus Institute; Greentech Media Annual Solar Photovoltaics Production by Country, 1995-2009 United Year China Japan Taiwan Germany States Others Total Megawatts 1995 n.a. 16 n.a. n.a. 35 n.a. 78 1996 n.a. 21 n.a. n.a. 39 n.a. 89 1997 n.a. 35 n.a. n.a. 51 n.a. 126 1998 n.a. 49 n.a. n.a. 54 n.a. 155 1999 n.a. 80 n.a. n.a. 61 n.a. 201 2000 3 129 n.a. 23 75 48 277 2001 3 171 4 24 100 70 371 2002 10 251 8 55 121 97 542 2003 13 364 17 122 103 131 749 2004 40 602 39 193 139 186 1,199 2005 128 833 88 339 153 241 1,782 2006 342 926 170 469 178 374 2,459 2007 864 938 387 744 269 545 3,746 2008 2,013 1,268 813 1,334 401 1,261 7,089 2009 3,782 1,508 1,439 1,364 587 2,000 10,680 Notes: n.a. = data not available. Rows may not add to totals due to rounding. Source: Compiled by Earth Policy Institute with 1995-1999 data from Worldwatch Institute, Signposts 2004 , CD-ROM (Washington, DC: 2005); 2000 data from Prometheus Institute, "23rd Annual Data Collection - Final," PVNews , vol. 26, no. 4 (April 2007), pp. 8-9; 2001-2006 from Prometheus Institute and Greentech Media, "25th Annual Data Collection Results: PV Production Explodes in 2008," PVNews , vol. 28, no. 4 (April 2009), pp. 15-18; 2007-2009 for Japan from Shyam Mehta, "26th Annual Data Collection Results: Another Bumper Year for Manufacturing Masks Turmoil," PVNews , vol. 29, no. 5 (May 2010), pp. 11-14; 2007-2009 for other countries and the world from Shyam Mehta, GTM Research, e-mail to J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute, 21 June 2010. This is part of a supporting dataset for Lester R. Brown, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011). For more information and a free download of the book, see Earth Policy Institute on- line at www.earth-policy.org. Annual Solar Photovoltaics Production in Selected Countries, 1995-2009 4,000 3,500 China 3,000 2,500 2,000 Megawatts 1,500 Japan Taiwan 1,000 Germany 500 United States 0 Earth Policy Institute - www.earth-policy.org 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 Source: EPI from Worldwatch; Prometheus Institute; Greentech Media Solar Photovoltaics Production in the United States, 1976-2009 Year Annual Production Cumulative Production Megawatts 1976 0.3 0.3 1977 0.4 0.7 1978 0.8 1.6 1979 1.2 2.8 1980 2.5 5.3 1981 3.5 8.8 1982 5.2 14.0 1983 8.2 22.2 1984 8.0 30.2 1985 7.7 37.9 1986 7.1 45.0 1987 8.7 53.7 1988 11.1 64.8 1989 14.1 78.9 1990 14.8 93.7 1991 17.1 110.8 1992 18.1 128.9 1993 22.4 151.4 1994 25.6 177.0 1995 34.8 211.8 1996 38.9 250.6 1997 51.0 301.6 1998 53.7 355.3 1999 60.8 416.1 2000 75.0 491.1 2001 100.3 591.4 2002 120.6 712.0 2003 103.0 815.0 2004 138.7 953.7 2005 153.1 1,106.8 2006 177.6 1,284.4 2007 269.1 1,553.5 2008 401.1 1,954.6 2009 587.4 2,542.0 Source: Compiled by Earth Policy Institute with 1976-1993 from Hillary Flynn, Content Manager at Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, Cambridge, MA, e-mail to Joseph Florence, Earth Policy Institute, 21 March 2006; 1994-2000 data from Worldwatch Institute, Signposts 2004 , CD-ROM (Washington, DC: 2005); 2001-2006 from Prometheus Institute and Greentech Media, "25th Annual Data Collection Results: PV Production Explodes in 2008," PVNews , vol. 28, no. 4 (April 2009), pp. 15-18; 2007-2009 from Shyam Mehta, GTM Research, e-mail to J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute, 21 June 2010. Annual Solar Photovoltaics Production in the United States, 1985-2009 700 600 500 400 300 Megawatts 200 100 0 Earth Policy Institute - www.earth-policy.org 1985 1988 1991 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 Source: EPI from Prometheus Institute; Worldwatch; Greentech Media Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Production in the United States, 1976-2009 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 Megawatts 1,000 500 0 Earth Policy Institute - www.earth-policy.org 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 Source: EPI from Prometheus Institute; Worldwatch; Greentech Media World Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Installations, 1998-2009 Year Cumulative Installations Megawatts 1998 962 1999 1,166 2000 1,428 2001 1,762 2002 2,229 2003 2,823 2004 3,924 2005 5,323 2006 6,929 2007 9,360 2008 15,677 2009 22,893 Source: Compiled by Earth Policy Institute from European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), Global Market Outlook for Photovoltaics Until 2013 (Brussels: April 2009), p. 3; EPIA, Global Market Outlook for Photovoltaics Until 2014 (Brussels: May 2010), p. 5. This is part of a supporting dataset for Lester R. Brown, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011). For more information and a free download of the book, see Earth Policy Institute on-line at www.earth-policy.org. World Cumulative Solar Photovoltaics Installations, 1998-2009 25,000 20,000 15,000 Megawatts 10,000 5,000 0 Earth Policy Institute - www.earth-policy.org 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 Source: EPI from EPIA Annual Solar Photovoltaics Installations in Selected Countries and the World, 1998-2009 Year Germany Italy Japan U.S. Spain Others World ---------------- Megawatts --------------- 1998 10 n.a. 69 n.a. 0 76 155 1999 12 n.a. 72 17 1 95 197 2000 40 n.a. 112 22 n.a.
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