Washington Post: Superstores can meet half their electricity needs with rooftop solar, says a new report

by Tik Root

January 20, 2022

…“There’s massive potential across the entire country for big-box stores to produce solar,” said Wade Wilson, an author of the report from the nonprofit Environment America Research and Policy Center and the nonpartisan research organization Frontier Group. “These are big rooftops that need to be taken advantage of, and we need to start using them.”

Fenton said that parking lots can offer even more solar potential, with panels not only providing electricity to the store but shade to cars and perhaps even power for electric vehicle chargers. Wilson’s group didn’t include parking lots in its calculations, but the report touches on the possibility….“We have these massive retail and grocery stores with very inviting roofs and parking lots,” Wilson said. “It just makes so much sense to put solar panels on these places.”

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