This article is on CNN's website. You can read it in full here.

Here's one of the interesting quotes from that article: "...Renewable energy now contributes a quarter of the world's electricity capacity and is responsible for 18 percent of global power production...."

Here's another: ‎"One of the upsides of the downturn of last year was that it did lead to a significant decease in the cost of some these [renewable] technologies, particularly in solar," Eric Usher, manager the UN's Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative, told CNN."

As you can see, solar is growing and is here to stay. There are vast potentials that solar holds for us!