Comments on: More Evidence of a Distributed Solar Sweet Spot

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:18:00 +0000

Parking lots are major opportunities for solar. Much easier than dealing with rooftops.

Provide sheltered parking. Stick in the conduit for charging, if not the actual chargers at the same time.

People who don’t have a place to charge at night (urban apartment dwellers) should be given a decent rate for daytime charging and priority on electrified parking spots.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:06:00 +0000

Yep, if you look at any city from a bird’s eye view, even someplace like NYC, there’s a TON of empty parking lots / car parks.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:06:00 +0000

Yep, if you look at any city from a bird’s eye view, even someplace like NYC, there’s a TON of empty parking lots / car parks. We should use ‘em.

By: Mattpeffly

Mattpeffly — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:48:00 +0000

There is a boat load of flats roofs and parking lots around the world. The amount of distributed PV you could place and never touch open land is vast. On top of the other distributed PV benifits, you also get shaded parking lots. The Cincinnati zoo did this, much nicer walk on sunny days.

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:28:00 +0000

Assuming about 30 acres for a 5MW plant, there must be a lot of car parks that large near shopping centres that consume at least that much power.