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Solar Panel Installations Spike in U.S.: Live Business Updates



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Here’s what you need to know: In many areas, solar panels now provide electricity at a lower cost than new coal or natural gas power plants.Credit…Tom Sibley for The New York TimesThe pandemic brought many solar power projects to a halt in the spring. But the industry more than made up for the lost activity later in the year and is now on track to provide more than 40 percent of the new electricity generating capacity added this year.Solar power capacity added by the close of 2020 would be 43 percent higher than in 2019, an industry association and research …

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