Arizona is the #1 market in America to build a solar power industry. Arizona's solar insolation footprint, pro-solar regulatory environment, flat land, cheap labor and consumers strong propensity to install solar water heaters and solar power systems makes Arizona the #1 market to sell solar products and services.

Arizona is the #1 Market
for Solar Power in America

Arizona can produce 123,500 MWh
of Photovoltaic (PV) Solar power per year

Arizona's Roadmap to the #1 Solar Market in America

According to a recent solar power research study completed by Navigant Consulting, the research firm confirmed that Arizona is one of the top regions in the world to develop a solar power industry based on the state's infinite supply of solar energy, the growing population, the university solar R&D programs, the propensity for residents to install solar power and thermal heating systems, the numerous utility grade solar plants being built and the fact that Arizona has dedicated $1.2 Billion ($60 million per year) through 2025 to stimulate the transformation of renewable energy programs.

The Arizona Solar Electric Roadmap also concluded these facts:

Experts Predict 40% Growth Rate for Solar Due to Passage of Investment Tax Credit

Arizona's Population Growth Rate Continues to Increase

Arizona's Economic Growth Rate Continues to Increase

Arizona's Corporation Commission (ACC) has established an excellent Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard

Arizona's Solar Insolation Footprint Offers Unsurpassed Distributed Generation Solar Development

Arizona's Solar Insolation Footprint Offers Unsurpassed Utility Grade Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)

Arizona's Real Estate Market Offers Abundant Tracts of Affordable Land for Solar Development

Arizona's Location Serves as Central Hub for Solar Markets in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas

Arizona's State Trust Land Tracts can be use for large scale solar development

Arizona's Labor Costs are cost-effective compared to other states

Arizona's Tax Rates are competitive compared to other states

Arizona's University System is Producing Superior Solar Engineers

Arizona's Funding Includes Close to $1.2 Billion from the Renewable Energy Standard (RES) through 2025 ($60 million per year)

Arizona's ASU Poly Photovoltaic (PV) Certification Process is 1 of only 3 in the world (the other two being in Northern Italy and Germany

Arizona's ASU Power Systems Engineering Research Center manages a consortium of 13 universities and 39 industry companies in a program funded by the National Science Foundation

Arizona's universities have clean rooms, monitoring and evaluation equipment and characterization equipment that can be used for research and development of 3rd generatoin solar cells

Arizon Public Service (APS) electric utility operates the Solar Test And Research (STAR) facility to provide solar resource monitoring, performance testing of new solar products, and to act as a staging area to ready and test equipment being installed for customer service.

The Grand Plan for Solar Power Panels

Many experts and industry research reports detailed on this page indicate that there is enough solar energy in Arizona and other southwestern states to power the entire United States.

Entrepreneurs Needed to Sell Solar Power Panels

All solar business entreprenuers need to do to farm this goldmine of green energy is to start selling and building grid-tied residential and commercial solar power panels with solar energy panels to soak up the sunshine. Known as distributed solar power generation panels, these 2 to 10 kilowatt small solar power systems can use Arizona's superior net metering system to reduce electricity bills by allowing customers to generate their own electricity and sell any left over electricity back to APS, SRP, and TEP to help them manage their peak load demand.

Market Potential for Solar Power Panels in 2009

Home Solar Power Systems

There are more than two million residential roof tops available that could be used to collect and generate solar power right now. For example, the top five solar power panel markets in Arizona based on the best propensity to buy a solar power system using solar energy panels and/or a solar water heater are:

Business Commercial Solar Power Panel Systems

In addition to 2.1 million household roof tops, there are hundreds of thousands of business commercial roof tops on shopping malls, movie theaters, car dealerships, sports arenas, convention centers, airports, warehouses, military bases, corporate campuses, retail supercenters such as Wal-mart, ranching/dairies, hospitals, manufacturing plants, hotels, churches, schools, apartment complexes and large parking lots that could be used to host large solar power panel systems.

A small sample of the existing commercial roof tops that could be covered with solar power panel systems in Arizona:

30 Major Shopping Malls

33 Military Bases

40 Major Sports Arenas

50 College Campuses

95 Airports

100 Movie Theaters

113 Major Corporate Campuses

131 Hospital/Medical Complexes

359 Convention Centers

400 High Schools

6,178 Manufacturing Plants

5,532 Supercenter Retail Locations

9,980 Warehouse/Storage Facilities

65,000 Apartment Complexes

The quickest way to harness the sunshine is Arizona is to add solar panels to the millions of large commercial and residential roof tops available that could be used to collect solar power. Known as distributed generation, smaller solar power plants can use Arizona's net metering system to reduce electricity bills by allowing customers to generate their own electricity and sell any left over juice back to APS, SRP, and TEP to help them manage their peak load demand.

Parking Lot Solar Power Panel Systems

And, next to every big commercial structure with a large roof there is also a large parking lot with even more room to deploy solar panels. Parking lot solar plants provide a dual benefit of producing clean energy as well as providing highly sought after shade from the sun's strong rays during Arizona's scorching summers.

Adding solar energy power plants to Arizona parking lots would provide a dual benefit of producing clean energy as well as providing highly sought after shade from the sun's strong rays during Arizona's scorching summers.

Arizona: The Persian Gulf of Solar Power in America

The abundance of sunshine and the energy it can generate has made Arizona a target for solar power panel system manufacturers and economic development teams. As you can see, Arizona offers a very large vein of solar energy that can be used to fuel solar energy panel system power plants, which will attract billions of dollars in investment capital, provide a boom to Arizona's economic development, and generate thousands of construction and permanent jobs.