State ranking based on the amount of solar electric capacity installed in 2012

Top 10 Solar States

Rooftop SolarPotential (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 Decline2011 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

58,000homes

37,000homes

11,000homes

49,000homes

13,000homes

22,000homes

32,000homes

California1

626,000homes

If California were its own country, it would rank 7th globally in installed PV capacity.

Best inShow

Arizona2

710.3MW

Arizona installed more utility-scale solar in 2012 than any other state.

SunniestState

New Jersey3

There are more solar company locations in New Jersey than tanning salons.

Solar Garden State

Nevada4

Wild Card

414.9MW

There is enough solar energy in Nevada to power every household in the state’s capitol, Carson City.

198MW

North Carolina5

Solar TakesFlight

Massachusetts6

BrightestFuture

131.9MW

The Tar Heel State is no fluke- North Carolina is expected to rank 4th in 2013 in solar installed.

128.9MW

In 2012, the state’s solar industry made more money installing panels than the New England Patriots made selling tickets.

Hawaii7

SolarKahuna

Maryland8

108.7MW

Hawaiians get a greater percentage of their electricity from solar than any other state.

74.3MW

Maryland’s solar industry is even bigger than its famous crab industry.

A Mover and Shaker, Hon

Colorado9 Texas10

69.9MW

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.

64.1MW

If you include all of its usable land, the solar potential of Texas is more than twice that of any other state.

Most Untapped Potential3-Mile-High

Solar State

1032.7MW

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(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

139,000homes

=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)

139,000homes

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