California Kohl's store turns on giant rooftop solar system

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Kenban @ Sep 27th 2007 9:31AM

There are two advances that need to occur with solar cells. First the cost has to come down more. When cells become cheap enough that a store can save enough money to have paid for the install within a 5 year period you will see big box stores across the country do this. I could see a point in the future where a major chain agrees to install solar cells on every (or at least most) of the chains stores.

The second is durable cells which totally replace traditional roofing materials on a home. If home builders can start building the entire roof out of solar cells and this is combined with a price drop that makes it so that the difference between a solar roof and a traditional roof can be paid off in 5 to 10 years a lot of home builders, and owners would be willing to replace their homes roof with a solar roof.

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steve @ Sep 27th 2007 4:27PM

yeah, but a large installation like this can only help the economy of scale of solar panel systems.

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