How solar panels harvest solar energy

• Every hour, enough sunlight shines on the earth to power the entire planet with solar energy for one year.¹
  
  
• Thanks to declining technology costs, supportive policies like the Inflation Reduction Act, and increasing demand for renewable energy, there are over 135 gigawatts of installed solar capacity in the US.²
  
  
• That’s enough to power 24 million households with clean energy,³ harnessed by solar panels that work like this.
  
  

1 "Turning Sunlight into Fuel," Columbia Climate School, Renee Cho, August 24, 2016.

2, 3 U.S. Solar Market Insight, Solar Energy Industries Association, as of December 13, 2022.