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Old 06-11-2024, 08:23 AM
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Many new housing developments here in the UK incorporate solar panels in the tiling of the roof. They are part of the roof, not great lumps put on after roofing.
Any unused electricity generated is fed back into the National Grid, and the owner gets paid for it.
All we lack is the amount of sun that Florida has.
Never understood how a State, with as much sun as Florida, does not make it mandatory for new builds to have solar energy.
Economically it does not seem to work out for us old folks. Also when shingles need to be replaced after 15 years or so, not cheap to take down and reinstall the solar panels