Climate Changed
Tesla's Solar Installations Fall But More People Opt to Buy Them
A worker lays down a solar panel on a rooftop during a SolarCity Corp. residential installation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., on Feb. 8, 2016.
Photographer: Sergio Flores/Bloomberg
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Tesla Inc. is installing far less solar power than its SolarCity unit did as an independent company.
Tesla installed 109 megawatts of energy-generation systems in the third quarter, according to a statement Wednesday from the Palo Alto, California-based company. That’s down from the 187 megawatts of panels that SolarCity deployed in the same period last year, its final quarter before it was acquired.