Parking lots are horrible. They're butt ugly heat islands that take up way too much space. While adding solar on them doesn't solve the last issue, it does help mitigate the heat island effect and solar panels are no less ugly than asphalt. Plus it is power creation right next to where it is being consumed for minimal transfer losses. It's also much nicer for the vehicles parked there to be in the shade.

* Prevents being affected by grid blackouts

* Seen as progressive / eco by customers and ofc shade

* You've got captive demand - air-conditioning giant mall & food shops need industrial fridges

* Enough scale to do meaningful grid feed in

* Already have the infra to do generator switch over

* Access to financing and ability to plan over the 10 years or so that it takes to recover cost

The best thing is that EV owners can be paid during the day for providing demand and paid again in the evening and at night for supplying.

"build a conceptually similar, 657 kW solar carport system across 12 parking lots (shown, above) that delivers more than 1.23 million kWh of clean, emissions-free power annually and offsets the equivalent of 185,000 vehicles’ worth of harmful carbon emissions."

Not sure what that means but that doesn't seem right.

Great idea, where I live I'm pretty much maxing out the percentage of permitted structures allowed by zoning.

I could imagine that if solar panel carports didn't count towards structure limits, I'd build a carport across my absurdly large driveway :)

I think there are lots of "free" ways we could incentivize private construction of solar panels -- even without monetary subsidies.

Or we could even tax people for not doing it. In Denmark your land is taxed based on what it's zoned for, and how it could be utilized (not how it is utilized).