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Sharply Higher Rooftop Solar Potential Increases Potential For Energy Self-Reliance
Clean Technica: Earlier this year, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory released a new estimate of rooftop solar potential, an update to 2008 figures we used in our landmark state-by-state energy atlas, Energy Self-Reliant States. The bottom line: there’s much more potential to generate our electricity from solar on nearby buildings than we previously thought.
The irony is that this comes at a time of increasing tension between distribution power generation and a legacy of centralized power generation.
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