Five percent of California’s utility-scale power generation last year came from solar installations larger than 1MW, compared to 1.9% in 2013, as a wave of major projects were brought on-line – among them Topaz and Desert Sunlight, the world's largest PV arrays at 550MW apiece.
California - whose economy is larger than Brazil's - added 1.9GW of utility-scale capacity in 2014, lifting its total to 5.4GW,