Massachusetts is going big on solar. It announced that it had reached its 250 MW goal a full four years early.
http://www.mass.gov/governor/pressoffice/pressreleases/2013/0501-solar-power-goal-reached.html.
Though Massachusetts achieved its 2017 solar goal early, it is not finished. Massachusetts' new solar goal is 1,600 MW by 2020.
The substantial business activity in solar led to a 28% decline in solar prices in 2012 and solar is a major part of Massachusetts clean energy economy that features 5,000 firms and 71,000 jobs. Massachusetts clean energy jobs grew 11.2% from 2011 to 2012, about a 6-times faster rate than the national job growth rate.
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, we have a state government hostile or neglectful to renewable energy and energy efficiency, and that's one reason why Pennsylvania lost 5,000 jobs in the last 12 months.
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