By early 2020 the leading country for solar power was china with 208 gw accounting for one third of global installed solar capacity.
Country with most advanced solar panel technology.
2020 new solar technology where are we headed.
And with good reason.
In the same year.
Traditional utility scale and rooftop solar panels have dominated the solar market until this point.
As one of the most densely populated countries in the world japan does not have the luxury of covering huge swathes of land with solar panels.
And we re all the way there nrel estimates that around 39 percent of the country s energy use could be supplied by rooftop solar panel systems equaling 1 118.
In fact in 2009 germany installed 3 806 megawatts of solar energy capacity nearly eight times the amount installed by the u s.
Germany is considered the world leader in solar energy as the country currently uses vastly more solar power than any other country.
By the end of 2016 cumulative photovoltaic capacity increased by more than 75 gigawatt gw and reached at least 303 gw sufficient to supply approximately 1 8 percent of the world s total electricity consumption.
Solar panel efficiency is a measure of the amount of solar energy irradiation which falls on a panel surface and is converted into electricity due to the many recent advances in solar cell technology over the last 5 years average panel conversion efficiency has increased from 15 to 20.
This large jump in efficiency resulted in the power output of a standard size.
Hypothetically covering the country s roads in solar technology gets us most of the way to being completely solar powered.