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slash Wall Street. If you look up at your neighbor's rooftops you might see

some solar panels soaking up the sun.

The sheer amount of electricity that can be produced by residential solar power arrays across

the US has surged over the last 14 years.

From 667 megawatts of installed capacity on rooftops in 2010

to more than 37,000 megawatts midway through 2024,

according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group.

Last year, more money went into solar than into all other sources of energy generation

combined. If you look at what's called

utility solar, which is the biggest solar farms that feed utilities and the grid, that's

booming as well. But at the same time, reporter Fred DeVorax says distributed

power generation, like lots of small rooftop solar arrays providing power where it's needed,

is taking the backseat to more traditional energy models where large solar power plants transmit energy

models where large solar power plants transmit energy to

utilities, sometimes over long distances.

Add in high interest rates and rising costs for financing and labor and home solar is now

slumping.

It just makes it harder to recover your costs on any solar installations and it makes it a lot less attractive

for homeowners who are thinking of putting up solar.

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