Solar is likely to surpass one gigawatt of installed, power-generating capacity this year in the U.S. — that’s enough capacity to power 200,000 homes — according to a report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association and GreenTech Media Research.

The researchers believe that photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) installations

Since the beginning of Twitter time, the company has used sequential IDs for tweets. This has helped some third party services come up with rough estimates as to the total number of tweets there were on Twitter (though it was always a bit inaccurate since they’ve done huge jumps a few times). But starting today, that will change as Twitter’s new status ID system, Snowflake, is in the process of rolling