A fact sheet released last April 7 by the White House Solar Summit revealed an amazing statistic that each day, in every four minutes , an American home or business goes solar. There has been a very noticeable increase in the usage of solar panels since 2008, when president Obama was elected. From 1.2 gigawatts in 2008 to 13 gigawatts in 2014, this amount of generated electricity could already power up 2.2 million American homes. Also, at the summit, the U.S. Department of Energy supports the solar boom by announcing a  $15 million program to help state, local and tribal governments in building solar panels. This could eventually put an end to the 44% not-so-environment-friendly power source, the coal and petroleum combined,  of the U.S.