It was the seventh consecutive quarter in which the US added more than 1GW of PV installations.

First half 2015 PV additions totaled 2.722GW, also a record for the period, up from 2.645GW a year earlier. That represented 40% of all new electric generating capacity brought online in the US through 30 June, according to the Q2 2015 US Solar Market Insight Report.

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