[pure_ambition]

> New England will probably be the last region to get decent renewable adoption. Solar panels don't work as well because they're far north and get a number of cloudy days...

Wrong. Most of Europe (especially Germany) is actually at a higher latitude than New England.

[nostrademons]

...but tends to be windier. My understanding is that renewable use in Germany is largely driven by wind power.

[cromulent]

Germany has 5 times as much solar capacity as wind power, and the highest PV watts-per-capita in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country

[nostrademons]

The chart you linked to shows wind at 45GW in 2015 and solar at 41GW in 2016, and this page [1] shows net generated energy in 2016 at 77TWh for wind and 37.5TWh for solar. Are you sure you weren't looking at the "New installed capacity" for wind and comparing it to the total capacity for solar? (The solar numbers are admittedly bigger than I expected to see, though it appears that wind is growing 4x faster than solar, which is the opposite from the U.S, where the installed wind base in greater but solar is growing 2x faster.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany