Mini-Hoon: Big solar meets big new warehouses
There are thousands of hectares worth of hot steel roofs on warehouses and factories in our biggest cities, but few have solar panels on them that could act as virtual power plants for those factories and the homes, schools, hospitals, offices and shops that are often nearby. Anyone flying into Auckland and Christchurch airports can look down and see the biggest missed opportunity for renewable energy and resilience just sitting there, radiating heat back up at the plane on a sunny day.
It was particularly frustrating to think about during last winter’s energy crisis when many large…
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