In April 2013, Germany reaches milestone of 50% non-Fossil Energy production over a 24 hour period. While symbolic only it nonetheless is important.



World PV Buildout (data come from reports like This : While its on an accelerating curve, the scale is still very small for PV. The numbers on the Y-axis are in units of GigaWatts. The corresponding units for the entire world would be about 5000.



World CSP Buildout is about 3 times larger than PV indicating that CSP is an emerging market particualry in the ROW sector (ROW = REs of World):



Hoewever, the current data indicate that the PV market/build-out is beginning to flatten post 2011:



Moreover, most alternative PV production schemes do not scale well due to lack of materials (some are intrinscially rare in the Earth) and hence traditional silicon based PV panels dominate the market.



Finally, what are Universities doing in this regard. Many Universities have large land area or large rooftop space. As you an see below, build out on college campuses is starting to occur although the overall capacity - 140 MegaWatts is still very small. But the good news is that project size after 2009 is starting to scale up .



With a total 2.7 MW of solar generation, Butte College (in California) now generates the highest percentage of their total electrical use, via solar, of any other campus in the country.