Development of utility-scale renewable-power amenities world wide has been growing quickly in recent times. Though the entire share of worldwide energy wants met by photovoltaic power alone stays small, at about 6 p.c, it’s on the rise. Governments and enormous firms are constructing huge amenities to offer each photo voltaic thermal and photovoltaic power, changing the solar’s power into electrical energy for tens of millions of houses and companies. Photo voltaic-panel farms are being put in on hillsides, rooftops, and pastures, and, increasingly, in floating arrays in harbors or reservoirs. Gathered beneath are photos of a few of these new solar-power installations world wide.