StateEnergyScorecard
A public dashboard and companion app that grades every US state on clean-energy progress using live grid, permitting, and emissions data, helping residents and businesses see what is actually being built.
environmentally engaged residents and clean-tech job seekers
- Quarterly letter grades per state on solar, wind, grid reliability, and emissions cuts
- Project pipeline map showing permits filed, approved, and stuck
- Local impact view showing how state policy affects your utility bill and air quality
- Email digests when a state's grade changes
State-level execution, not federal pledges, now drives real climate outcomes, but residents have no neutral scorecard to compare Hochul-era New York against other governors.
ACEEE's State Energy Efficiency Scorecard has run for 16 editions and Environment America just launched a renewable-energy dashboard, confirming an existing engaged audience; however, the source trend of 'kathy hochul' is a one-person news spike, not a category signal, and the consumer-resident segment remains niche.2025 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard | ACEEE ↗Data dashboard tracks renewable energy progress in your state ↗
Market is already crowded with well-funded incumbents: ACEEE scorecard (16 yrs), Environment America dashboard, the State Climate Policy Dashboard, and raw EIA state data — none of which appear to be merged into a single neutral consumer scorecard, but each is a partial substitute.State Energy Efficiency Scorecard | ACEEE ↗State Climate Policy Dashboard ↗U.S. Energy Information Administration - state renewables dashboard ↗
B2B climate/energy intelligence (Arcadia, Watershed, ClimateDeck, MarketsandMarkets) does monetize, but the stated target — environmentally engaged residents and job seekers — has near-zero willingness to pay when ACEEE, EIA, and Environment America publish equivalent comparisons free.Arcadia: The leading energy intelligence platform ↗Watershed — The sustainability AI platform ↗Carbon & Energy Dashboard - MarketsandMarkets ↗
State-level clean-energy policy and grid data is structurally long-lived; ACEEE has sustained this exact scorecard concept for 16 years, indicating durable relevance regardless of federal administration.State Energy Efficiency Scorecard - OurEnergyPolicy ↗
All required data (generation, capacity, emissions, EV sales) is public via EIA and EPA, and dashboard/visualization tech is commodity — a single engineer can ship an MVP, though data normalization and updates are ongoing ops cost.U.S. Energy Information Administration - state renewables dashboard ↗