Third quarter installations were the third most on record for the period and a 44% increase from a year earlier, although they declined 12% from the second quarter. There is now a total of 5.9GW of PV operating in the US from over 271,000 installations.
SEIA forecasts that an additional 1.2GW of PV capacity will be installed this quarter, bringing the 2012 total to 3.2GW.
