Dive Summary:

• The California Solar Initiative has passed more than 1,000 megawatts of installed solar before the end of 2012, which puts the program more than halfway toward its goal.
• The program, which is a $2.4 billion ten-year plan, has an end goal of having 1,940 MW of solar power on homes and businesses around the state by 2016.
• The California Public Utilities Commission has said that another 332 MW is already in the planning stages, which will bring the completion percentage closer to 75 percent.

From the article:

As of the end of the third quarter of 2012, the U.S. had around 6,400 megawatts of installed solar capacity, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. Solar installed through the CSI program represents the bulk of California’s capacity, but not all of it: according to the state, as of Jan. 9, there were 1,435 megawatts installed in California.

San Jose led the state with 44 megawatts installed through the CSI, which is open to customers of the state’s big three investor-owned utilities, and thus doesn’t cover city of Los Angeles residents served by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. San Diego, which has about 350,000 more residents than San Jose, was second at 36 megawatts. ...