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Florida, United States

3.97TWh
every year, from one 325-watt panel on each of 8,193,875 buildings.

What that is equal to

🏠 378 thousand
homes powered for a year
at the US average of 10,500 kWh per household
🌍 1.47 million t
CO₂ avoided annually
displacing grid power at 0.371 kg CO₂e/kWh (EPA eGRID)
🚗 320 thousand
cars taken off the road
an average passenger vehicle emits 4.6 t CO₂e a year
⚡ 11.3 billion
electric vehicle miles
at roughly 0.35 kWh per mile

The pay-off

It pays for itself here. A panel on this roof delivers electricity at 7.9¢ a kWh against a local price of 15.2¢ — 48% cheaper than local power. The install is repaid after 12.6 years, inside the panel's 25-year life.
7.9¢ vs 15.2¢
cost per kWh: this panel vs the grid
levelised over 25 years including 0.5%/yr degradation
$7.37 billion
to fit every building here
8,193,875 panels at $900 installed each
12.6 years
to break even
saving $602 million a year area-wide at today's price

Assumes $900 to install one 325 W panel — hardware, mounting, microinverter, electrical work, labour and permitting — repaid only by the electricity it avoids buying. No subsidies, tax credits, net-metering premium, financing cost or future price rises are counted, and the figure is undiscounted. Electricity price is the FL residential average (EIA, May 2026). A single panel is unusually expensive per watt because it carries a whole array's fixed costs, which is why these numbers look worse than rooftop solar generally does.

How this is calculated

Buildings with roofs8,193,875
×  Panel rating325 W
×  Annual yield per panel here484.6 kWh
Annual generation3,970,927,806 kWh
Assumptions and limitations
  • Yield is specific to this location: 484.6 kWh per panel per year, from NASA POWER climatology transposed onto a tilted roof plane. The same panel makes roughly 596 kWh in Phoenix and 265 kWh in Anchorage.
  • Assumes a south-facing roof at a typical residential pitch, with a ~22% total system loss for soiling, shading, wiring, inverter, and heat.
  • Counts every above-ground structure with a footprint of at least 20 m², so garages and outbuildings are excluded but barns and sheds of real size are not. Building data is machine-derived and imperfect.
  • No account is taken of roof orientation, obstructions, structural condition, or whether the owner wants a panel.

Counties in Florida

Miami-Dade County · 281 GWhHillsborough County · 255 GWhPalm Beach County · 212 GWhBroward County · 210 GWhOrange County · 196 GWhPinellas County · 186 GWhLee County · 182 GWhDuval County · 168 GWhPolk County · 167 GWhPasco County · 128 GWhBrevard County · 119 GWhVolusia County · 115 GWhSarasota County · 104 GWhMarion County · 99.2 GWhManatee County · 95 GWhLake County · 88.8 GWhCollier County · 77.2 GWhSeminole County · 73.2 GWhOsceola County · 70.8 GWhEscambia County · 71.8 GWhSt. Lucie County · 68.8 GWhLeon County · 60.1 GWhBay County · 59.6 GWhSt. Johns County · 55.8 GWhAlachua County · 52.3 GWhCharlotte County · 52.9 GWhOkaloosa County · 46.5 GWhHernando County · 46.5 GWhSanta Rosa County · 46.4 GWhClay County · 43.1 GWhSumter County · 42.8 GWhCitrus County · 42.5 GWhIndian River County · 38.4 GWhMartin County · 33.2 GWhHighlands County · 32 GWhFlagler County · 28.6 GWhWalton County · 27 GWhNassau County · 23.4 GWhPutnam County · 21.7 GWhMonroe County · 23.5 GWhColumbia County · 19.5 GWhJackson County · 16.5 GWhSuwannee County · 15.6 GWhLevy County · 14.8 GWhGadsden County · 13.1 GWhOkeechobee County · 12.7 GWhHendry County · 11.1 GWhWakulla County · 9.86 GWhDeSoto County · 9.96 GWhWashington County · 9.05 GWhBradford County · 8.05 GWhTaylor County · 7.94 GWhBaker County · 7.33 GWhHolmes County · 7.19 GWhHardee County · 7.24 GWhMadison County · 6.28 GWhGilchrist County · 6.07 GWhGulf County · 5.99 GWhDixie County · 5.82 GWhFranklin County · 5.65 GWhGlades County · 5.35 GWhCalhoun County · 5.01 GWhHamilton County · 4.62 GWhJefferson County · 4.66 GWhUnion County · 3.62 GWhLafayette County · 2.71 GWhLiberty County · 2.42 GWh

Metro areas in Florida

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL · 703 GWhTampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL · 615 GWhOrlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL · 429 GWhJacksonville, FL · 297 GWhNorth Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL · 199 GWhCape Coral-Fort Myers, FL · 182 GWhLakeland-Winter Haven, FL · 167 GWhDeltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL · 143 GWhPalm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL · 119 GWhPensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL · 118 GWhPort St. Lucie, FL · 102 GWhOcala, FL · 99.2 GWhTallahassee, FL · 87.7 GWhNaples-Marco Island, FL · 77.2 GWhCrestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL · 73.5 GWhGainesville, FL · 73.2 GWhPanama City, FL · 59.6 GWhPunta Gorda, FL · 52.9 GWhThe Villages, FL · 42.8 GWhHomosassa Springs, FL · 42.5 GWhSebastian-Vero Beach, FL · 38.4 GWhSebring-Avon Park, FL · 32 GWhPalatka, FL · 21.7 GWhKey West, FL · 23.5 GWhLake City, FL · 19.5 GWhOkeechobee, FL · 12.7 GWhClewiston, FL · 11.1 GWhArcadia, FL · 9.96 GWhWauchula, FL · 7.24 GWh

Places like Florida

New York · 2.4 TWhOhio · 2.37 TWhPennsylvania · 2.31 TWhIllinois · 2.3 TWhNorth Carolina · 2.52 TWhMichigan · 2.09 TWh