[ilovesarah2012]

“One million solar power installations now dot America’s rooftops and landscape, an achievement being hailed as a milestone by advocates of solar energy. There were just 1,000 such projects at the turn of this century, and only six years ago, going solar cost twice as much.

Still, those one million installations deliver just 1 percent of electricity in the U.S., the world’s second-largest energy consumer after China. Globally, the figure is roughly the same. If the goal of keeping global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius is to be met, then climate-changing emissions will have to drop by as much as 70 percent by mid-century.”

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24052016/solar-energy-27-gigawatts-united-states-one-million-rooftop-panels-climate-change-china-germany

We have a ways to go.

[NorthMountain]

If the goal of keeping global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius is to be met

ROFL!!!

Begs the question, doesn't it? Who says "global warming" is real, or that it has anything to do with "emissions"?

[Ben Ficklin]

That's absolutely correct, but then it is just recently that solar prices have fallen to competitive levels. As of now there are but a few places in the world where PV is cheaper and that is in the deserts. Those prices will continue to fall so by 2050 it will be the cheapest.

The article you linked to also pointed out that Germany and China lead the US.