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since you are about to take it down – but if the solar panels are the roof and you need to redo it anyway, there’s no reason not to go with a power-generating roof,” said Rive.
Cost fallen
The cost of households becoming solar has fallen by 70% over the past decade in the US, with more than
1 million American homes now fitted with solar
panels – up from just 30,000 homes in 2006. Last July, the Obama administration announced an initiative to deliver one gigawatt of solar to low-income households by 2020.
It’s estimated that PV panels on 0.6% of America’s land mass would provide enough electricity to power the entire country. California has taken the lead in both household and large-scale solar power generation, accounting for half of the homes with solar panels and hitting a peak generation of 8 megawatts of electricity from solar plants on July 12 – enough to power more than 6m homes.
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Paris accord
Rapid deployment of clean energy will be required
if the US, and other countries, are to slash emissions quickly enough to meet climate change targets agreed at a landmark international accord in Paris last year.
The agreement’s ambition to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial times is likely to be blown within just five years on the current trajectory of emissions, according to a recent analysis.
Even if emissions are radically cut in the next few years, as-yet undeveloped technology will need to
be deployed in order to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground to avoid temperatures that will raise the seas enough to swamp low-lying nations and cause food and water insecurity for many other countries.
Source: www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/ aug/19/elon-musk-tesla-solar-panel-roofs-solarcity
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