Solar Potential of High Electricity Cost States

These maps support the business plan of ImpactGreen with the goal to eliminate fossil fuels from electricity production.

ImpactGreen is a solar electric utility company whose mission is to eliminate fossil fuels from electricity production. The business structure would be purchasing the excess solar electricity from our many individual micro-suppliers effectively turning a bill into a monthly check. The GIS maps map us locate the the most desirable locations for us as a startup to grow as a key part of the business plan is to store that excess electricity in batteries and sell it to the grid at peak times during the day, maximizing returns.

Solar Energy Potential

From Solar potential data we have determined that Hawaii, California, and parts of southern and central New England have the best market potential for our venture.

State Electricity Price

The average electricity price of the state dictates where we can have the highest margins.

Population

Population density in the United States.

Population density is a good indicator of where the highest demands for electricity will be now and in the future.

Isolated Solar potential

The opportunity here is to utilize the availability of lower cost solar energy systems, and pair them with localized demands for electricity especially in areas where those prices are traditionally higher for a variety of reasons such as density and location which require power generation facilities to be far away from where the electricity is actually consumed. With the partnership of several micro suppliers, solar energy can significantly undercut the competition while still providing us margins of up to 75%. Those solar panels would be financed through long-term, zero collateral loans, which would give ImpactGreen the flexibility to grow at a rapid rate since this concept is also intended to be modular so many small setups can operate across the country at a given time. This is because the other main component of this business would be to store that excess electricity in large batteries and sell it to the grid at certain times during the day maximizing returns.

Layered map

Please use this map to explore and confirm with your own eyes why we are claiming that Hawaii, southern California, and central New England would be ideal locations to launch ImpactGreen.