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Indiana, United States

1.46TWh
every year, from one 325-watt panel on each of 3,661,587 buildings.

What that is equal to

🏠 139 thousand
homes powered for a year
at the US average of 10,500 kWh per household
🌍 542 thousand t
CO₂ avoided annually
displacing grid power at 0.371 kg CO₂e/kWh (EPA eGRID)
🚗 118 thousand
cars taken off the road
an average passenger vehicle emits 4.6 t CO₂e a year
⚡ 4.17 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 9.6¢ a kWh against a local price of 18.2¢ — 47% cheaper than local power. The install is repaid after 12.8 years, inside the panel's 25-year life.
9.6¢ vs 18.2¢
cost per kWh: this panel vs the grid
levelised over 25 years including 0.5%/yr degradation
$3.3 billion
to fit every building here
3,661,587 panels at $900 installed each
12.8 years
to break even
saving $265 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 IN 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 roofs3,661,587
×  Panel rating325 W
×  Annual yield per panel here398.8 kWh
Annual generation1,460,142,904 kWh
Assumptions and limitations
  • Yield is specific to this location: 398.8 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 Indiana

Marion County · 154 GWhLake County · 95 GWhAllen County · 66.3 GWhHamilton County · 56.4 GWhSt. Joseph County · 50.8 GWhElkhart County · 38.2 GWhMadison County · 38.3 GWhVanderburgh County · 36 GWhPorter County · 31.6 GWhHendricks County · 32 GWhJohnson County · 28.7 GWhTippecanoe County · 27.9 GWhLaPorte County · 25.5 GWhDelaware County · 24.5 GWhClark County · 25 GWhVigo County · 23.4 GWhMonroe County · 22.3 GWhHoward County · 21.2 GWhKosciusko County · 20 GWhMorgan County · 17.3 GWhGrant County · 16.8 GWhBartholomew County · 16.7 GWhWayne County · 16.6 GWhFloyd County · 16.5 GWhHancock County · 16.1 GWhBoone County · 15.2 GWhLawrence County · 14.6 GWhWarrick County · 14.6 GWhLaGrange County · 13 GWhDubois County · 13.4 GWhMarshall County · 12.4 GWhHenry County · 12.9 GWhNoble County · 12.2 GWhDearborn County · 12.1 GWhJackson County · 11.9 GWhHarrison County · 11.7 GWhSteuben County · 10.7 GWhShelby County · 11.2 GWhDeKalb County · 10.2 GWhGreene County · 10.6 GWhDaviess County · 10.8 GWhCass County · 10.3 GWhKnox County · 10.6 GWhMiami County · 10 GWhHuntington County · 9.87 GWhWhitley County · 9.42 GWhGibson County · 10.1 GWhWabash County · 9.38 GWhPutnam County · 9.34 GWhMontgomery County · 9.23 GWhRipley County · 9.09 GWhAdams County · 8.82 GWhClinton County · 8.89 GWhJasper County · 8.58 GWhWhite County · 8.58 GWhWashington County · 8.66 GWhJefferson County · 8.56 GWhStarke County · 7.52 GWhPosey County · 8.01 GWhRandolph County · 7.56 GWhDecatur County · 7.59 GWhClay County · 7.7 GWhJennings County · 7.54 GWhWells County · 7.29 GWhFranklin County · 7.27 GWhSpencer County · 7.38 GWhOrange County · 6.92 GWhFulton County · 6.37 GWhJay County · 6.49 GWhOwen County · 6.49 GWhScott County · 6.49 GWhCarroll County · 6.27 GWhFayette County · 6.27 GWhPerry County · 6.31 GWhSullivan County · 6.02 GWhRush County · 5.4 GWhFountain County · 5.16 GWhParke County · 5.2 GWhVermillion County · 5.15 GWhNewton County · 5.06 GWhTipton County · 4.84 GWhBrown County · 4.8 GWhPulaski County · 4.5 GWhPike County · 4.6 GWhCrawford County · 4.37 GWhMartin County · 4.09 GWhBlackford County · 3.78 GWhSwitzerland County · 3.67 GWhBenton County · 3.13 GWhWarren County · 2.96 GWhUnion County · 2.49 GWhOhio County · 1.94 GWh

Metro areas in Indiana

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI · 1.37 TWhCincinnati, OH-KY-IN · 412 GWhIndianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN · 383 GWhLouisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN · 263 GWhFort Wayne, IN · 75.7 GWhSouth Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI · 65.6 GWhEvansville, IN-KY · 69.4 GWhTerre Haute, IN · 47.4 GWhLafayette-West Lafayette, IN · 40.3 GWhElkhart-Goshen, IN · 38.2 GWhBloomington, IN · 28.8 GWhMichigan City-La Porte, IN · 25.5 GWhMuncie, IN · 24.5 GWhKokomo, IN · 21.2 GWhWarsaw, IN · 20 GWhJasper, IN · 18 GWhMarion, IN · 16.8 GWhColumbus, IN · 16.7 GWhRichmond, IN · 16.6 GWhBedford, IN · 14.6 GWhPlymouth, IN · 12.4 GWhNew Castle, IN · 12.9 GWhKendallville, IN · 12.2 GWhSeymour, IN · 11.9 GWhAngola, IN · 10.7 GWhAuburn, IN · 10.2 GWhWashington, IN · 10.8 GWhLogansport, IN · 10.3 GWhVincennes, IN · 10.6 GWhPeru, IN · 10 GWhHuntington, IN · 9.87 GWhWabash, IN · 9.38 GWhCrawfordsville, IN · 9.23 GWhDecatur, IN · 8.82 GWhFrankfort, IN · 8.89 GWhMadison, IN · 8.56 GWhGreensburg, IN · 7.59 GWhNorth Vernon, IN · 7.54 GWhScottsburg, IN · 6.49 GWhConnersville, IN · 6.27 GWh

Places like Indiana

Virginia · 1.65 TWhWisconsin · 1.42 TWhTennessee · 1.56 TWhWashington · 1.34 TWhMissouri · 1.47 TWhMinnesota · 1.28 TWh