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Re:Interior cancels largest solar project in North America by _carbyau_ on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @06:30PM (#45599097)
As a new homeowner I enjoy having solar on the roof. Coming from being an apartment owner... apartment owners are generally fucked when it comes to this stuff. Even if you want it, convincing a board of "gimme rent" landlords to spend money on solar they won't benefit from generally kills it.

This is why I'd rather a rule like "you must have enough solar to cover your aircon power over a hot summer" and then gridscale the rest.

Instead, I too will enjoy my almost-aristocratic landowner status and will be upgrading my solar setup in the near future.

Re:Interior cancels largest solar project in North America by aeonfox on Monday October 27, 2025 @07:28PM (#45727562)
Most rooftops generate more power than the household consumes. The vast amount of air-conditioning for apartments is likely already accounted for by rooftop generation. An easy way to gridscale that is to have batteries closer to the rooftops that re-distribute that rooftop power when the sun goes down. Incentives can be given so that home owners over-provision their solar with bigger arrays and inverters, and to turn their home batteries into VPPs.