Real Estate, From A Bird’s POV. Parking Lots, rooftops and flexible substations. These are the simple steps to a grid taking advantage of the technologies that drive us forward. We even have the technology to put solar farms on the land without having to tear the land up in terrain following trackers. 250,000 rooftops in DC is a fourth of the original million rooftop goal set in California but in an area more similar to a Sacramento than the 5th largest economy in the world.
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