Germany captures 43% of the world's solar power

Dec 18 by Rocco Penn | 4 comments

Solar Panels

Few developments, notions, or facts relating to green technology surprise us anymore. Alternative energy continues to expand while oil consumption slowly drops (perhaps too slowly for most). The alternative energy industry seems to be heading in the right direction (other than some notable failures recently). It’s for this reason that the huge acceptance of solar power in Germany blindsided us a bit.

It’s common knowledge that they lead the world in solar, but the extent of their domination is mind boggling. The infographic below by 1bog looks at the top 10 countries from a solar perspective. Combined, they account for 91% of the overall solar installations in the world. Notably absent from the list: Russia, Brazil, and Australia, all of which have the land mass and resources to be bigger solar countries.

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Solar Countries

WRITTEN BY ROCCO PENN

As Executive Director in charge of Facebook Marketing, Rocco has extensive understanding of the interactions and engagement necessary to be successful in Web 2.0. He lives in Orlando, FL, and works with businesses across the east coast to help them succeed in marketing and social media strategy, particularly car dealer marketing. Follow him @SocialPros.

COMMENTS
  • Anonymous

    Captures? Are you really THAT stupid? I mean, I realize you “write” for a crappy blog, and therefore don’t actually earn a living with your writing skills and journalism…but still, this is bad even for a blogger. Germany does not capture 43% of the world’s solar energy.

    Maybe it GENERATES that much…but not captures. Those two words are NOT interchangeable.

    • Ireplytotrolls

      lakawak, Germany certainly does *capture* a percentage of the world’s solar energy, it is ‘generated’ by the Sun.

      Clue’s in the title dumbass.

  • Vgzone

    Oh come on.  So Germany captures 43% of the energy of the sun that is then converted to Solar Energy.   Thats just semantics.  The two words are not interchangeable yes, but thats because you’re only interpreting the sentence in one way.  The end. 

  • lemon

    Now I know why Germany has the most impressive GDP in the Eurozone.