Why solar is likely to power the Home of the Future

Right now in America, there are about 2 million homes with solar panels. Considering there are about 90 million single-family homes, that doesn’t seem like a lot. But consider this: we’re now on track to start adding a million new solar-powered systems each year. It’s taken a while to get here, but solar is increasingly becoming a popular option to power the Home of the Future...

...Of course, not every state is as weather-fortunate as California, but various solar companies point out that they’re starting to expand beyond the Golden State and Florida. Anne Hoskins, chief policy officer of Sunrun, the nation’s largest residential solar installation company, says the company is growing in states like Wisconsin and Illinois. Vivint Solar CEO David Bywater says that his company has a lot of solar customers in New England. Baca notes that Maryland and the Carolinas are starting to have more solar panels, and New Hampshire and Vermont have quite a bit when you take the size of the states into account...