Hawaii’s rooftop solar capacity has increased by more than 1000 percent since 2007. Hawaii’s solar capacity nearly doubled in 2011, making it the 11th most solar-powerful state.


New state and federal efforts aim to make more data publicly available. We don’t want that to go unnoticed so we’re publishing simple facts from open data sites like and .

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