State ranking based on the amount of solar electric capacity installed in 2012 Top 10 Solar States Rooftop Solar Potential (MW) 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 76,000 60,000 49,000 27,000 26,000 25,000 25,000 23,000 22,000 20,000 California Texas Florida Ohio Illinois Georgia New York North Carolina Michigan Pennsylvania Price Decline 2011 to 2012 4 Maryland Massachusetts Oregon New Jersey Illinois Vermont Arizona Texas Wisconsin Delaware 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 33.18% 28.96% 26.00% 22.70% 22.37% 21.80% 20.13% 19.79% 18.93% 15.60% Solar Per Capita (watts per person) 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 167 146 137 110 91 76 52 48 34 30 Arizona Nevada Hawaii New Jersey New Mexico California Colorado Delaware Vermont Massachusetts Cumulative Solar Capacity Installed (MW) 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2902 1097 971 403 270 229 198 196 191 190 California Arizona New Jersey Nevada Colorado North Carolina Massachusetts Pennsylvania Hawaii New Mexico 58,000 homes 37,000 homes 11,000 homes 49,000 homes 13,000 homes 22,000 homes 32,000 homes California 1 626,000 homes If California were its own country, it would rank 7th globally in installed PV capacity. Best in Show Arizona 2 710.3 MW Arizona installed more utility-scale solar in 2012 than any other state. Sunniest State New Jersey 3 There are more solar company locations in New Jersey than tanning salons. Solar Garden State Nevada 4 Wild Card 414.9 MW There is enough solar energy in Nevada to power every household in the state’s capitol, Carson City. 198 MW North Carolina 5 Solar Takes Flight Massachusetts 6 Brightest Future 131.9 MW The Tar Heel State is no fluke- North Carolina is expected to rank 4th in 2013 in solar installed. 128.9 MW In 2012, the state’s solar industry made more money installing panels than the New England Patriots made selling tickets. Hawaii 7 Solar Kahuna Maryland 8 108.7 MW Hawaiians get a greater percentage of their electricity from solar than any other state. 74.3 MW Maryland’s solar industry is even bigger than its famous crab industry. A Mover and Shaker, Hon Colorado 9 Texas 10 69.9 MW Denver may be the “mile-high” city, but if you stack up all the solar panels installed in Colorado in 2012, they’d reach 3 miles into the sky. 64.1 MW If you include all of its usable land, the solar potential of Texas is more than twice that of any other state. Most Untapped Potential 3-Mile-High Solar State 1032.7 MW Get solar data from the SEIA/GTM Solar Market Insight Report. Learn more at: SEIA.org/smi (1) SEIA/GTM Solar Market Insight 2012 Year in Review; (2) SEIA, “What’s In a Megawatt?” http://www.seia.org/policy/solar-technology/photovoltaic-solar-electric/whats-megawatt; (3) Rooftop solar capacity that could be supported if every usable rooftop in a state were covered by solar photovoltaic panels, NREL http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51946.pdf; (4) Change in residential and commercial installed solar prices from Q4 2011- Q4 2012, weighted by capacity installed; SEIA/GTM Solar Market Insight 2012 Year in Review http://www.seia.org/smi; (5) Watts of cumulative solar electric capacity per state resident. SMI/GTM Solar Market Insight 2012 Year in Review http://www.seia.org/smi and U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 population estimates http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/totals/2012/index.html; (6) SEIA/GTM Solar Market Insight 2012 Year in Review 139,000 homes =10,000 homes Installed in 2012 (MW) 1 Homes powered by solar 2 (an estimate of the number of homes powered per megawatt of installed solar capacity, including both photovoltaic and concentrating solar power) 139,000 homes © Copyright SEIA 2013