Solar rooftops gain traction as electric vehicles owners look to skip paying for electricity or gasoline: ‘Solar just makes sense’::Residential solar is gaining traction in the U.S., with about 4.5 million homes now with solar rooftops.
Solar rooftops gain traction as electric vehicles owners look to skip paying for electricity or gasoline: ‘Solar just makes sense’::Residential solar is gaining traction in the U.S., with about 4.5 million homes now with solar rooftops.
Putting panels on roofs is the most expensive way to do solar, anyway. It’s a custom job every time, and doesn’t take advantage of economies of scale.
Putting them in big fields is far cheaper. If you want to stick it to traditional power utilities, then look at community solar.
That’s not true at all.
Installations are mostly standardized.
Putting them in an empty field is a terrible use of valuable land in areas where people actually live, not to mention the costs of transportation.
Some farms are taking advantage of this though, look into “agrivoltaics” for more on that.
So what? Who owns a giant field to put them in other than power companies? If you own your home and own the panels, that’s your power. Even if it’s not enough to get off the grid entirely, you’re still saving money.
Look up community solar.