By Farah Siddiqi
Ohio News Connection
Ohio houses and companies are putting in sufficient photo voltaic vitality to energy practically 300,000 houses every year.
A brand new report launched by the Solar Energy Industries Association says that greater than half of photo voltaic installations within the United States have come on-line since 2020, with greater than 25% put in for the reason that Inflation Reduction Act was handed virtually two years in the past.
Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, stated the trade is booming within the state.
“Ohio is a hotbed of photo voltaic manufacturing,” Hopper stated. “You have numerous services that make photo voltaic panels, racking, make different components which are wanted to make photo voltaic. And that brings vital funding to the state from the photo voltaic trade.”
The report confirmed in 2012, California alone had greater than 25,000 photo voltaic programs put in. Today, 23 states and territories could make that declare, and 11 have surpassed 100,000 photo voltaic installations. More than 19,000 are in Ohio, which ranks seventeenth within the nation.
Hopper stated that not solely has the expansion in photo voltaic vitality occurred shortly, but it surely has been sustained, and he predicts it is going to proceed.
“It took 40 years for the United States to put in one million photo voltaic initiatives, after which simply eight years to succeed in 5 million. And that signifies fast progress,” stated Hopper. We suppose it is going to solely take six years to succeed in 10 million.”
Hopper says for most individuals and companies, energy is a big expense, so options are price contemplating.
“I might encourage each house owner, each enterprise proprietor in Ohio to have a look at their electrical invoice,” Hopper stated. “Compare it to the quotes they get from photo voltaic contractors, and most often, I guess they get monetary savings.”
He stated the photo voltaic trade helps the careers of about 1,700 Ohioans and invests simply over $3 billion within the state’s economic system.
Published in The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
