In November 2009 Morocco announced it will install 2 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2020.

Russia plans to set up an overall solar capacity of 150 MW by 2020.

That would mean a solar generating capacity of 400 megawatts.

China was reported in early 2013 to have overtaken Germany as the nation with the most utility-scale solar capacity.

India has been rising up the leading nations for the installation of utility-scale solar capacity.

At the end of 2005 the nationwide solar photovoltaic capacity was 425 megawatts.

Installed solar capacity is growing by 30% per year in several regions including Germany, Japan, California and New Jersey.

In 2009 Japan had the third largest solar capacity in the world (behind Germany and Spain), with most of it grid connected.

China already has the largest solar thermal capacity in the world and now leads the world in installed renewable energy capacity.

A megawatt of solar electric capacity can power up to 270 average homes, according to Energy Acuity, a clean-tech research firm.