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Solar rooftops gain traction as electric vehicles owners look to skip paying for electricity or gasoline: ‘Solar just makes sense’ (fortune.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Also you need to keep them clean to maintain efficiency. In a field that's easy - you can probably just employ the landowner and buy an attachment for his tractor. On the roof there isn't really any good way of automating it, and some rooftops aren't accessible for a window washer and a long brush.