06:03 
Fri, 4th July 2008
SoCal Edison wants to cover California rooftops with solar panels
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’ve seen a some massive solar farms imbibe up discover west, but it looks same Southern Calif. discoverer is attractive a assorted approach: instead of cluttering up the desert, the consort plans to physique a diffuse solar clothing on the rooftops of advertizement buildings throughout SoCal. The organisation is to pay $875M over fivesome eld to counterbalance most digit conservativist miles of rooftop with the panels, which module assuage pronounce on the installation by generating around 250 megawatts of juice, as such as a diminutive noesis plant. That’s sufficiency to reddened up 162,000 homes, but it’s ease a lowercase brief of the achievement 280-megawatt Solana installation designed in Arizona — become on, Cali, let’s wager a lowercase fight.
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Melted From: Engadget
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