Next time you get the chance to look at your home town from an elevated position, the top of a hill or a tall building, for example, take a moment to consider how much unused space there is available on the roofs of the houses – perfect real estate for acres of photovoltaic solar panel arrays that could pump out cheap, clean electricity every sun-drenched day. So why aren’t we using this untapped urban resource?
Granted, with the price of solar panels dropping continually around the world, we are starting to see them glistening on more and more roofs, even here in South Africa, but there is still a lot of unutilised potential out there. Luckily, new tools promise to make it easier for the owners of buildings to assess whether they should be investing in their own rooftop solar power installation.
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Granted, with the price of solar panels dropping continually around the world, we are starting to see them glistening on more and more roofs, even here in South Africa, but there is still a lot of unutilised potential out there. Luckily, new tools promise to make it easier for the owners of buildings to assess whether they should be investing in their own rooftop solar power installation.
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