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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:

The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city

A line chart plots global capacity of solar power measured in gigawatts. From 2010 capacity starts to grow exponentially, way beyond a series of predictions drawn as lines in yellow. Actual installations have been more than 3x higher than their five year forecasts.