Where are people installing solar roofs and on what types of roof are they doing it?
Almost every week you can read a press release from major household names who have woken up to the advantages (financial and ecological) of the solar roof concept: Macy’s, PepsiCo, Hewlett-Packard, Estee Lauder, Wal-Mart, Cadbury Schweppes, BT, Costco and the list goes on. They are all turning their warehouse or retail or office roofs into solar power plants. And time and time again those who have done it or helped facilitate it say: “Why are we wasting all that unused commercial roof top space?” Governor Schwarzenegger, launching a project in California in early 2008 to place 250 megawatts of advanced photovoltaic generating power on 65 million square feet of roofs of Southern Californian commercial buildings, said: “If commercial buildings started partnering with utilities to put this solar technology on their rooftops, it would set off a huge wave of renewable energy growth”. When Cadbury Schweppes formally put into operation the new rooftop solar system at their manufacturing plant
