It’s not like Adam Browning was unaware of environmental and energy issues in 2001, when he had his awakening about the potential of solar energy. After graduating from college, he’d worked in the Peace Corps, then joined the Environmental Protection Agency, where he worked on enforcing pollution regulations in San Francisco—essentially trying to monitor and regulate how much smoke was coming out of smokestacks.

You’re pro-solar. Maybe you have an array on the roof of your home, and you’ve been seeing the benefits of this great source of renewable energy.

While studies show that the majority of Americans favor clean, renewable energy, including solar, old-paradigm energy interests, like the coal and fossil-fuel lobbies, are working to reverse the progress many states have made toward increasing the share of renewables in their energy tool kits.

Enter the solar advocates: people who know that solar can work for everyone and are willing to share their knowledge. People who take the growing movement for solar energy to their elected representatives, letting them know just how important it is for America’s future.

You’re probably aware that solar energy is growing around the world—but a look at some significant statistics lets us drill down into detail about just how big and promising the solar surge is right now.

In our eBook, “Solar Projects Shaping the Industry,”you can read about mega-projects worldwide. But solar is hard at work in All Energy Solar’s homeland, the upper Midwest, too. We’re proud to have made these close-to-home installations.

From rooftop receivers to multimillion-panel arrays, solar power is changing the way everyone from private citizens to national leaders to international organizations think about power generation.

Western China, southern India, California—these regions are solar-power leaders. But the sun’s energy is being harvested in some far-less-likely spots as well. Here’s a sampler:

Solar energy as a resource for human beings has been around for a very long time—but as an industry, it’s a relative newcomer, taking off in the wake of World War II and growing fast today. Here are some of the highlights of solar history:

From rooftop receivers to multimillion-panel arrays, solar power is changing the way everyone from private citizens to national leaders to international organizations think about power generation. And the researchers and engineers expanding and improving solar are coming up with ingenious answers to the questions it poses.

As you’re preparing to install a solar array on the rooftop of your home, you want to make sure you do it right. It’s important to consider a number of factors when getting your roof ready for a solar installation.