Summer Solstice Solar Survey: Consumers Around the World Think Their Country Has the Most Solar Power Installed

Applied Materials puts out an interesting Summer Solstice Solar Energy Survey annually. While it covers a range of topics, one of the most interesting findings this year, in my opinion, is that consumers of various countries think their country is the solar leader (when it is not).

“Respondents of each country believed their country has installed the greatest number of solar panels. Almost six in 10 (57%) Americans say the U.S. has installed the most solar panels, 43 percent of Chinese think it is China, and half (52%) of India thinks it is their country,” Applied Materials writes.

Pretty hilarious.

Only 17% of respondents responded that Germany was the world leader.

Of course, as CleanTechnica readers know, the top countries in absolute numbers (MW of installed solar power) as of the end of 2011 were:

Germany — 24678
Italy — 12754
Japan — 4914
Spain — 4400
USA — 4383
China — 3093
France — 2659
Belgium — 2018
Czech Rep. — 1959
Australia — 1298

But those rankings change when you look at installed solar power in relative terms (i.e. per capita, per GDP, and relative to electricity production).

Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/1eZub)

Source:http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/19/summer-solstice-solar-survey-consumers-around-world-think-their-country-has-installed-most-solar-power/