Within a decade, 100 million Americans could get cheaper electricity from rooftop solar – without subsidies – than is provided by their utility. This finding from our new report – Rooftop Revolution: Changing Everything with Cost-Effective Local Solar – inspired our popular animated map, showing when major metropolitan areas reached this crucial solar crossroads.The only complaint was, “what about the 30% federal tax credit?” We think the former argument – without subsidies – is stronger, but for those who really wanted to see the solar future based on the existing tax incentive and assuming it is extended, as is, after 2016, this map’s for you:

via Re-mapping Solar Grid Parity with incentives | Energy Self Reliant States.